Habanero Hot Sauce.muse

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