Habanero Hot Sauce.muse

   1 #title Mango and Molasses Habanero Hot Sauce
   2
   3 * A Warning From the Future
   4
   5 I made this recipe very, very long ago. I didn't calculate the correct
   6 amount of vinegar needed to make it shelf stable, so it probably
   7 isn't. Reader beware.
   8
   9 I'll probably update this in Fall 2020 as I'll have a garden again for
  10 the first time in a few years, and should be making some hot sauce
  11 with the hot peppers left at the end of the season.
  12
  13 * Ingredients
  14
  15 ** Common
  16
  17  - 1 Extra Large Mango (or 2 medium)
  18  - 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
  19  - 3 tbsp molasses
  20  - 1 1/2 tbsp cumin
  21  - 1 tsp sea salt
  22  - 1 tbsp paprika
  23
  24 ** Super Hot
  25
  26  - 15ish Fresh Habaneros
  27    - Do not deseed
  28  - 1 tbsp cayenne pepper
  29
  30 ** Edible and Tasty
  31
  32  - 7 or 8 fresh habaneros
  33    - Deseed and remove the inner flesh
  34  - Equivalent mass of fresh red bell pepper ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20130527144021/http://www.ochef.com/158.htm][roasted]])
  35
  36 * Directions
  37
  38  1. Put on gloves and perhaps a respirator and goggles to avoid *death
  39     by capsaicin*
  40  2. Peel and pit the Mango (naturally)
  41  2. Place everything into a food processor
  42  3. Whir about until it turns into some kind of paste (60ish seconds
  43     seems fine)
  44  4. Transfer to a pan, cover, and simmer for around five minutes
  45  5. Store in a jar and refrigerate
  46  6. Destroy your tastebuds
  47
  48 * Dear God Why
  49
  50 The year was 2010. The season was summer. The location a pot garden. A
  51 bell pepper seedling died a few weeks into the growing season owing to
  52 being weak or perhaps poorly taken care of. To avoid wasting the soil
  53 and pot a package of habanero seedlings was procured; one was to be
  54 planted and the other two given away, but no one came through on their
  55 offer to adopt the plants. Thus the garden ended up with three
  56 habanero plants. It is a little known fact that habaneros produce
  57 ridiculous numbers of peppers, and so something had to be done with
  58 them after the family grew sick of spicy foods every night.
  59
  60 ** A Justification for the Mild Variant
  61
  62 The initial super hot sauce proved to be tasty for a moment and then
  63 overwhelmingly hot. Now, don't get me wrong, I like incredibly spicy
  64 things, but the initial flavor of the sauce was rather nice and it
  65 seemed a shame to have it destroyed by the habanero. With the
  66 replacement of some habanero by a sweet pepper the flavors come into
  67 balance, and the sauce becomes a rather nice adjunct to things like
  68 chili or black bean burritos.