Your Favorite Hot Sauce

[Joe]

The tomatillos.

 

[pygmalion]

Ahh. That makes sense. I was wondering. I didn 't think unripened peppers would be so unabashedly, vibrantly green.

 

[samina]

I've been cooking a lot with whole fresh habaneros or japalenos -- add them to the blender with a bit of water to purify, then add to recipe. Take out seeds if you want less of a burn.

I'm basically becoming addicted to variations on a theme -- habaneros, garlic, onion and ginger blended up together and added to whatever curry I'm making. Fabulous with greek yogurt & pulverized almonds, finished with lime juice & cilantro, no additional spices necessary. Three or four habaneros are enough to really give a rush.

 

[DanceMentor]

So after trying many hot sauces since I started this thread, it was Cholula and Burn Baby Burn that were my favorites after lots of taste tests

 

[fascination]

yes...my favorite

 

[SDsalsaguy]

Cholula is my favorite as well!

 

[toothlesstiger]

My current favorite is a mix of Sriracha and Mayo. It makes everything taste wonderful.

 

[fascination]

sriracha is a beautiful thing as well...for me, cholula is almost exclusively for use on Mexican food, and sriracha is something I prefer for asian and indian dishes...that being said I will eat either on almost anything particularly any starch/carb, eggs or sandwich, but also on nachos or anything else topped with shredded cheese...those are the sorts of things that are my food weakness as I don't care for sweets at all

 

[pygmalion]

My current favorite is a mix of Sriracha and Mayo. It makes everything taste wonderful.

I'll have to try this. There was a time when I would have been grossed out by the mere idea, But the cafe where I work has this amazing chipotle mayo combo that is just astoundingly yummy. What the heck. Why not try sriracha and mayo?

 

[fascination]

I would imagien that the mayo softens the sriracha which some people need...i grew up on miracle whip and therefore, cannot abide mayo...not even a little bit

 

[pygmalion]

I like either or both.

Will have to try the miracle whip/sriracha combo as well.




ETA: Ooh! There's a thought. Will have to try hot sauce in hummus as a spread. I've been substituting hummus for mayo on wraps and sandwiches. I bet it would be super yummy with hot sauce blended in. My fave hummus flavor is supremely spicy, after all.

 

[fascination]

I can' t imagine miracle whip would work as it is too tangy on its own....but more power to you

 

[pygmalion]

I can' t imagine miracle whip would work as it is too tangy on its own....but more power to you

Ya never know. If you don't try something new, you'll never know anything new. The worst case is that I'll throw away a yucky sandwich. *shrug*

 

[SDsalsaguy]

ETA: Ooh! There's a thought. Will have to try hot sauce in hummus as a spread. I've been substituting hummus for mayo on wraps and sandwiches. I bet it would be super yummy with hot sauce blended in. My fave hummus flavor is supremely spicy, after all.

I've actually been offered siracha added to my hummus in a restaurant a couple of years ago.
(It wasn't bad actually... although it doesn't work when you're craving more traditional middle-eastern )

 

[pygmalion]

The funny thing is that I cannot stand traditional Middle Eastern hummus. But Americanized (aka weird flavored) hummus, I eat with a spoon. Plain. No chips, pita or veggies required.