How to Make Your Own Hot Sauce

Sitting down to eat a nice dinner at a Mexican food restaurant has a distinct advantage over eating at other restaurants: the chips and salsa. Every different restaurant has a different recipe and heat level for the sauce, but all of them are easy to recreate in a home kitchen.

First thing you need to do is decide what kind of salsa you want to make. Some people prefer a chunky sauce that has been refrigerated before serving, and [...]

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The Best Hot Sauce – Your Own

Hot sauce is a lot like bacon in terms of its niche popularity. You have lots and lots of entrepreneurs talking about how their hot sauce is the spiciest and the best. If you have satellite tv you have doubtlessly seen the countless cooking channels where people actually go around the country and sample these various sauces. There are millions of different kinds on the market, but which one is the best.

That’s simple, really. The best hot sauce out there is the one you make.

People are very particular about their hot sauces and everyone has their own idea of what constitutes “the hottest” and the “spiciest.” You probably do too, which means the only way you are going to find the “best” hot sauce is by making your own – making a hot sauce that meets your standards of what a hot sauce should be.

Here’s how you start:

1. You need a base. Typically tomato sauce is a pretty common one but you can experiment.

2. Do some research on various kinds of peppers. This can be fun because it will allow you to go out there and try all different kinds. You want one with the most kick to your taste buds. This will be your flavor.

3. Get some other spices for richness and composition. Your salts, your crushed pepper, etc.

Then you just go to town and try out different concoctions. Hot sauce, believe it or not, is a science and the chemistry stops when you find a mix that knocks your socks off.

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Gourmet Spicy Sauces for Cajun Food

New Orleans and Baton Rouge are the places that most Americans think about when they think of Cajun food. It only makes sense for the same gourmet spicy sauces to be associated with these areas. Anyone that really wants to come across some true gourmet spices has to visits these areas.

It is possible to have the Cajun food appeal with some of the spices that are found in spice shops. Some of these stores have sauces that will tickle the taste buds in awesome ways. Check out this link here