This sauce is no joke people. Seriously! It was torture for my eyes in the kitchen making this so if you decide to give it a go, please be careful. Now, there’s always a bottle of pepper sauce in my house. When I lived in New York, bottled Caribbean pepper sauce was every where you turned. Where I currently live, all I see in supermarkets are hot sauces (tabasco) and sometimes the Mexican hot sauce. They are never hot enough for me so I decided to make my own. Now, I have sauce to last me a couple months and as soon as that’s done, well I can make even more. No more buying pepper sauce for me!

Ingredients:
1/2 medium almost/barely ripe mango, diced (If you have papaya on hand, half of one papaya would be a better choice)
2 carrots, peeled and chopped
1 medium yellow onion, coarsely chopped
4 garlic cloves
1 sweet pepper, roughly chopped
12 scotch bonnets or habanero,stemmed but not seeded
1 inch piece of ginger root
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
1 tablespoon dry mustard
1 pinch cumin
1/2 tbsp honey
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1/2 cup water
juice of one lime
1 tsp salt

(Not all ingredients pictured)

Method:
1. Puree all ingredients in blender. Transfer mixture to saucepan and simmer for 10 minutes. Allow to cool before bottling. If refrigerated, sauce will keep about 2 months.

Here’s my sauce simmering…

Quick Notes:
1. This is one of the pepper sauce that I used to buy. I have one unopened bottle left. Saving for a rainy day.

2. The pepper of choice when making this sauce is scotch bonnet peppers. I used habaneros which was the closest I could come to scotch bonnet in my parts also I used carrots. If I had scotch bonnet peppers and papaya, my sauce would have been EXACTLY like the ones I’m used to. Nonetheless, the one I made was very very hot (just how I like) and very tasty. I found myself dipping fries into it which was always a weird thought for me but this sauce is truly yummy.

3. Some folks add thyme, mustard and scallions to their pepper sauce. I didn’t, but next time I definitely would. All in all, I loved the one I made. I can rest assured now that I will always have pepper sauce even if I have to make when I can’t buy.

Bye For Now…..