This Homemade Asian Hot Sauce is bursting with sweet heat you'll want to drip on everything! Similar to sriracha, this sauce is smoother, with a more robust flavor.
I was squeezing the last firecracker that would fit into my dad's five-gallon bucket. It was all a kid could do to entertain himself while playing hooky from school on such a beautiful spring day. However, I decided loading all of my fireworks into a bucket wasn't quite enough, this show needed bigger pyrotechnics! I think it was Jesus who said, "Go big or go home", and since I was already home the decision was pretty much made for me. There was still room to top off that bucket of firecrackers with gasoline!
This may sound dangerous, but it's OK. I did this as a teenager while I was still invincible.
I lit a rag on fire and dropped it down into my bucket of hell, promptly giving me an up-close and personal look at the inside of a fireball. I jumped out of the flames to gaze in fear of the fireworks scattering like politicians fleeing a lie detector, my bucket melting down, and the dry grass starting on fire.
Hmmm, I hadn't really planned for that.
I wasn't near a hose, so I had to run inside and fill up mop buckets of water in an effort to douse the fire one pail at a time. When I was done there was a 15' x 15' charred piece of earth where our lawn used to be. I spent the remainder of the afternoon raking burnt lawn and replacing it with sand and fresh grass clippings to hide the mayhem. It worked. My parents never said a word.
Now you have some context for my love obsession with hot sauce.
Asian Hot Sauce
My Homemade Asian Hot Sauce is a flavorful sauce that is similar to sriracha, though a little thinner and smoother, with a slightly deeper flavor. This is my go-to sauce on any Asian food, and pizza. Yes, pizza! If you ever wanted a hot sauce for your pizza, I got the goods right here!
How to Store Hot Sauce
You can make hot sauce and just store it in the fridge, but if you are like me and enjoy building up a little stockpile to enjoy throughout the year, invest in some bottles and caps (affiliate link). They aren't expensive and you can reuse the bottles. This sauce is shelf-stable for 6 months when properly bottled.
Homemade Asian Hot Sauce with Thai Peppers
Ingredients
- 16 oz Thai peppers, ~4 cups
- ¾ cup water
- 4 cloves garlic
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon hoisen
- 1 cup rice vinegar
- 1 cup white vinegar
Instructions
- Roast peppers in 450 degree oven until starting to char slightly.
- Roast garlic till softened.
- Add water, brown sugar, hoisen, garlic, and peppers to blender and puree till smooth.
- Add vinegar to mixture and blend.
- Run through food mill on finest setting and pour into saucepan.
- Heat to 180+ degrees, place in containers and store.
- If you are bottling the sauce, pour into sanitized bottles while still above 180 degrees, screw on clean caps, and flip upside down for at least 5 minutes to sanitize cap.
Notes
If the sauce is too mild I recommend adding more vinegar, however increasing the ratio of rice vinegar will raise the PH. White vinegar will keep the PH level low. If you want things even hotter, try my Carolina Reaper hot sauce recipe too!
Nutritional Information
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Erec
There's no salt called for - is this intentional or an omission?
John
Can this be put into a regular Ball jar and water bath processed for sealing/to make shelf stable or does it have to be in hot sauce jars. Also wondering when made shelf stable by flipping it upside down how long does it last for?