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Tabasco-Style Hot Sauce Recipe


This sauce is about as close as you can get to making Tabasco Sauce at home, unless you have a lot of patience. True Tabasco Pepper Sauce* is processed into a mash and then aged in white oak barrels for 3 years. Probably much longer than you want to wait. Tabasco-Style Sauce ingredients are very simple. Peppers, salt and vinegar. That's all! It's what you do with them that makes it so good.

Ingredients
* 1 lb Tabasco peppers, chopped (you can substitute peppers but it will not have the Tabasco flavor)
* 2 cups distilled white vinegar
* 2 teaspoons salt (sea salt works best)
Directions
1. Combine the peppers and vinegar and bring to a slow boil. Stir in the salt and simmer for 5 minutes.
2. Place all the ingredients in a blender and puree until smooth. Add more vinegar if the sauce needs thinning.
3. Here's the tricky part. Allow the sauce to sit for as long as you have patience for (at least 2 weeks). If you can wait about 3 years you will have something close to real Tabasco sauce.
Note: Very Important. The sauce must be stored in a dark place or it will discolor. If possible, store in light-resistant bottles such as dark beer bottles. However, the bottles must be sealed so you would have to have new caps and a bottle capper (available at home brew supply houses). You can use regular canning jars if you can store in the dark. Should the sauce discolor, it will not affect the taste, just the appearance. The sauce, in the jars should be processed for 20 minutes in a hot water bath.

* Tabasco is the trademarked brand name of the McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana





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