Chili Hot Sauce With Bird Eye Chili

Chili Hot Sauce with Bird Eye Chili

Making Chili Hot Sauce is so easy and unlike the store bought variety, with the homemade hot sauce you have complete control. You can jack up heat or make it mild. And with no added preservatives, it’s also healtier. Based on your liking you can choose whichever chili/ red pepper you want to use. I chose bird eye chili, cause these were too gorgeous and my husband love spicy hot sauce. Once you get the hang of making Chili Hot Sauce at home, you just wouldn’t go back to the store bought ones.

Bird’s Eye Chili with Charred Tomatoes and Red Pepper!

Few weeks back, when I came across this super cute bird’s eye chili, the idea of creating my own hot sauce popped immediately. Knowing how much Arvind loves spicy sauces, I gave it a go. The plan was to have that fiery kick with a depth of flavor. Charring the tomatoes and red peppers along with dry roasting the garlic gave that subtle smokiness to the sauce. Plus allowing it to age for few weeks definitely enhanced the taste. It’s turned out super spicy with a zest. I did strain the sauce before storing it but then poured back little bit of the mixture to the thin sauce just for a mild coarseness. Even though I am not a huge fan of any hot sauce but having a bottle at home comes handy in several occasions. Few drizzle on mayonnaise or on noodles, salad dressing perhaps or cocktails.

Ingredients you need:

Tomatoes Red peppers Garlic Bird’s eye chili, stems removed White vinegar Vegetable/olive oil Sugar Salt

What other variety of Pepper can you use?

Using bird eye chili made the hot sauce really hot. If you cannot handle extreme hot sauce but do enjoy heat, go ahead add with mild spiced red pepper. Follow rest of the recipe as is and it will taste equally amazing without making you sweat from all the heat.

Storing the Hot Sauce

Definitely use a dry clean glass jar with an air tight lid. If you make in huge batch, then divide in two bottles. Store one in the refrigerator and the other in the freezer. The color stays gorgeous and doesn’t change even after months. Bird’s Eye Chili Zesty Hot Sauce has an amazing flavor and smokiness from the charred red pepper and tomato. It’s zesty, fiery and a great condiments to uplift your taste bud!