Hot Honey Recipe (Infused Hot Pepper Honey)

Make your own homemade hot honey recipe with just two simple ingredients – honey and peppers. It's sweet, spicy and addictive!

Prep Time: 2 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Servings: makes 1 cup

Ingredients
1 cup honey (use good quality organic honey)
2-4 Fresno red peppers (use your favorite hot chilie peppers in the recipe)

Instructions

If using fresh chili peppers, chop off stem and discard. Chop the peppers into thin slices. If you do not want real kick, remove seeds and discard it. Seeds in will infuse more kick to honey. Choose according to your taste preference and spice tolerance levels.
Note: please use disposable gloves while cutting hot peppers. If you do it with bare hands like me, remember to thoroughly wash hands with soap and DO NOT TOUCH YOUR FACE/EYES! It can burn like hell.

In a small sauce pan pour honey.
Add sliced/chopped chili peppers. I used Fresno red peppers for the recipe.
NOTE: use your favorite hot chilie peppers in the recipe - Jalapenos, Fresno, Serano, Holland Red chili, red chili peppers for milder kick, Habanero, scotch bonnet, Thai birds eye chilies for real kick.
Heat honey on low heat, do not cook on high heat as it will boil over a create a complete mess. So hard to clean messy, sticky honey off the stove.
Simmer and cook for 30 minutes to 60 minutes on lowest heat depending on how much flavor of chili you want to be infused in the honey.
Keep stirring frequently to avoid the sides from burning.
Turn off flame. Let chilies and honey sit for atleast half an hour.
You can choose to filter out the chilies from honey before storing or leave it on if you want strong flavors!
Please store hot honey only in glass bottles. I do not recommend storing in plastic or metal jars.
Store hot honey in cool place away from direct sunlight. No need to refrigerate. It will keep for 3 months.

For more details and useful tips click on detailed recipe link shared below.

[eyrie]

If I might make a suggestion. Boil your peppers in a small amount of water to create a kind of concentrate. Then add to your honey and mix once cool. This preserves all the natural compounds that make honey, well, honey. 🙂

[MostlyFunktionalNinja]

Amazing! im so excited to make this myself. Do you recomend putting it in the refrigerator or leaving it out?

[DrewVerdin]

Here's a fact about peppers. Seeds don't add heat. The area that the seeds are connected to is called the placenta, and that's where a lot of the capsaicin resides. Capsaicin oils will get on the seeds, which makes people think they are hot. However, seeds can be washed and eaten with little to no traces of heat. Seeds tend to have a weird texture and can be bitter, so people normally opt out of using them so as not to taint the flavors and textures they are going for in the dish. ❤

[Miltendo]

isn't 30-60min too long for the honey? some videos say to just go 5-10 minutes

[cookingwithsanjay]

Can you blend the chilés with a stick blender to make it hotter and infuse better? I want to make this!

[Chilimancer]

Cool Video! I am a huge fan of hot honey. I'll have to try this recipe once my plants start producing pods.

I make videos about spicy food. It would be awesome if you stopped by and checked it out! Thanks for the cool video!