Homemade Fermented Hot Sauce + Chicken Wings

Sea Buckthorn and Pumpkin Spiced Fermented Hot Sauce (tongue twister that is)

Ingredients: (Use this as a guide, I encourage you to experiment)
- Sea buckthorn berries (approx 200g) (substitute any berry that is in season)
- Roasted pumpkin (approx 300g) (substitute any fruit that is in season)
- 5 yellow scotch bonnet chillies
- 5 red Thai chillies
- 4-5 cloves
- A stick of cinnamon (removed after a couple of days)
- A small knob of ginger chopped and smashed
- A spoonful or 2 of fermented garlic honey (see the previous post for instruction)
- Filtered water
- Non-iodised salt (2% brine)

Method:
- First, weigh your clean jar (sterilised if you want to be extra cautious).
- Chop and roast the pumpkin for 30-40 minutes.
- Put all the ingredients, except for the salt, into the jar, making sure there’s enough water to submerge everything.
- Weigh the jar again, and deduct the weight of the jar to get your total ingredient weight.
- Work out 2% of the total weight, and add in that amount of salt (total weight x 0.02 = how much salt you need)
I like to pour a bit of the water out into a jug, then add the salt to the jug, it’s much easier to dissolve the salt that way.
- Pour your salty water back in.
- Add a zip lock bag full of filtered water on top - this is to keep the contents submerged under the brine.
- Close up the jar and leave for a week or 2 at room temperature, out of direct sunlight, until the ferment slows and fewer bubbles are being produced. Also wise to set a plate or something underneath to catch any liquid that might escape the seal due to the pressure.

IMPORTANT:
- Make sure to open your jar once or twice a day to allow your ferment to “burp” and release excess pressure (it produces co2)!
- When it’s ready, I left mine for two weeks, strain out the liquid and add it to a food processor.
- Process until desired consistency, adding back some of the fermenting brine to thin out as needed.
- Pass through a fine sieve to catch any seeds or larger solids.
- Have a taste to see if it needs any further seasoning - I added some extra salt, sugar, and a spoonful of garlic honey.
- Bottle and store in the fridge for up to a couple of months (although I’d be happy leaving it a lot longer - trust your nose).

Homemade Hot Sauce Chicken Wings:

Ingredients:
- A dozen chicken wings.
- 50g Potato flour.
- 50g AP/Plain flour
- generous pinch of MSG
- 50g butter (this is a rough estimate)
- 200g hot sauce (again, rough estimate, adjust depending on the consistency of your hot sauce, and how buttery you want it)
- 1.5ltr Oil for frying

Method:
- If your wings are whole, trim off the wingtips and separate the drum from the flat as demonstrated in the video.
- Toss together with your flours and MSG.
- Heat your oil to 160 Celsius or 320 Fahrenheit.
- Fry for 3-4 minutes, or until very lightly brown. Keep checking your oil temperature.
- Remove wings and drain on a wire rack.
- Heat your oil to 190 Celsius or 375 Fahrenheit.
- Fry wings for a second time until lightly golden brown or when the bubbles slow down.
- Remove wings and drain on a wire rack.
- Add some of your hot sauce to a saucepan on low heat.
- Slowly stir in small knobs of butter until you reach your desired result (I used about 30g).
- Toss wings with your sauce, serve and enjoy!

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I noticed you put the fermentation liquid in a sealed jar. How will you used it? I can imagine it's like liquid gold with all the flavour it's absorbed.

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