Simple Hot Sauce

Name: Simple Hot Sauce
Yield: Makes 2 cups
Ingredients: 6 ounces, red jalapeño or Fresno chiles; 1 , carrot, peeled and chopped; 1 , shallot, quartered; 6 , garlic cloves, peeled; 2 ounces, habanero chiles, stemmed; 1 cup, distilled white vinegar; 2 tablespoons, packed brown sugar; 1 tablespoon, salt

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2017

We wanted a simple recipe for hot sauce that didn’t require fermenting like a lot of commercial products.

SERVESMakes 2 cups

TIME40 minutes, plus 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We liked the clean flavor of habanero chiles, but we found that it was best to temper their intense heat with milder (but still plenty spicy) jalapeños. Brown sugar, shallot, and garlic also balanced the heat and added depth while white vin...

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