Hot sauce
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 7:07 amThe wife picked up some habanero's a while back and she was expecting to go back and get some more but things never worked out the way so I was left with only a handful of them.
I decided to make some hot sauce with them anyway rather than throw them out.
It was interesting. The whole house was coughing, we had to open doors and windows.
Much hell for the tiniest amount of hot sauce.
I didn't make the sweet sauce I did at the restaurant. I was looking for a more traditional, "mix with anything" sauce, rather than a desert sauce. It's came out ok. I won't rate it more than that. It's reasonably hot though not deadly. I can eat two table spoons with a bowl of beef curry without it being overwhelming. It must have been hot though since I put the pan in the dishwasher and the wife make popcorn in it later and both found the popcorn spicy. Maybe that's where the heat went, along with into the atmosphere?
The flavour has nothing special about it. It tastes like eating a mild habanero. I might have to see if I can tweak it tomorrow.
On a side note, a friend made beef Penang curry (spelling is right, it's not Thai, it's Malaysian from the Island of Penang where she was born).
I have to get the recipe from her. It is sensational. Very dry compared to most curry. It's almost like eating well cooked beef chunks like in a kebab. There is virtually no sauce on it. The flavour is put into the beef by the cooking process. She served it with what was close to a naan bread and she gave us some for home that we had with rice. I can see why she served it with the bread. It just works better that way.
So that's my entertaining day.
I decided to make some hot sauce with them anyway rather than throw them out.
It was interesting. The whole house was coughing, we had to open doors and windows.
Much hell for the tiniest amount of hot sauce.
I didn't make the sweet sauce I did at the restaurant. I was looking for a more traditional, "mix with anything" sauce, rather than a desert sauce. It's came out ok. I won't rate it more than that. It's reasonably hot though not deadly. I can eat two table spoons with a bowl of beef curry without it being overwhelming. It must have been hot though since I put the pan in the dishwasher and the wife make popcorn in it later and both found the popcorn spicy. Maybe that's where the heat went, along with into the atmosphere?
The flavour has nothing special about it. It tastes like eating a mild habanero. I might have to see if I can tweak it tomorrow.
On a side note, a friend made beef Penang curry (spelling is right, it's not Thai, it's Malaysian from the Island of Penang where she was born).
I have to get the recipe from her. It is sensational. Very dry compared to most curry. It's almost like eating well cooked beef chunks like in a kebab. There is virtually no sauce on it. The flavour is put into the beef by the cooking process. She served it with what was close to a naan bread and she gave us some for home that we had with rice. I can see why she served it with the bread. It just works better that way.
So that's my entertaining day.
