Southern Hot Pepper Sauce
 
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Southerners use pepper sauce on everything. During my time in Texas, I used it on cabbage, greens, green beans, fresh sliced tomatoes, black eyed peas, cream peas, okra and pretty much anything else that I wanted to have a kick. What's great about this is once you make it the first time, all you have to do is keep adding vinegar to top the jar/bottle off. Pepper sauce will last indefinitely.
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Recipe Type: Condiments/Seasonings
Cuisine: Vegan
Number Servings: 1 pint
What You Need
  • 1 glass bottle with cap or cork (pint size or larger)
  • 1 cup or more red (Tabasco or Habanero) or green (Jalapeno or Serrano) hot peppers (quantity to fill your bottle)
  • 2 Tablespoons dried chili pequin peppers (or more to taste)
  • White wine, apple cider, or rice wine vinegar (or a mixture which is what I use) to fill your jar/bottle
  • 1-2 Tablespoons whole black peppercorns (your taste buds dictate how much)
  • 4 large cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
How to Do It
  1. In a stainless or ceramic pot bring enough vinegar to fill your bottle to a simmer over low heat. Watch pot carefully and make sure it doesn't boil.
  2. While vinegar is heating, rinse and set aside enough peppers to fill your sanitized jar or bottle. You may remove the stems if you prefer, but it's not necessary.
  3. Using a sharp knife, make a small slit in each of the peppers. This slit allows the vinegar to more easily penetrate the peppers and soak up it's spicy goodness.
  4. Stuff all of the peppers into the empty glass bottle. If using the garlic and peppercorns, smash the garlic cloves and add those along with the peppercorns.
  5. Fill the bottle with the heated vinegar and let cool slightly before adding top.
  6. Pepper sauce will be ready to use in 2-3 weeks.
Extras
Be sure to wash your glass bottle or jar and the top in the dishwasher or simmer it in a pot of boiling water for a few minutes to sanitize it before adding peppers and vinegar. Because of vinegar's acidic nature, it is not necessary to refrigerate your pepper sauce.
Recipe by Blacks Going Vegan! at http://blacksgoingvegan.com/southern-hot-pepper-sauce/