Here’s a recipe of a banana hot sauce. I grew Carolina Reaper peppers this year and I got a dozen dangerously looking hot pods! Some of my friends and colleagues are asking me one particular question…
What Are the Uses of Carolina Reaper Peppers?
I understand these chili peppers are super hot! They are too hot for me to eat. To ask what the uses of extremely hot peppers is a good question.
If you have read my earlier post about the uses of chili peppers you may know the answer: make a hot sauce!
Even though I have grown chili for over 3 years this is my third hot sauce ever! In my first hot sauce, I used garlic, onion, Jamaican bell chili peppers, and celery. Even though I really like celery the taste was like this: first, only celery, and then the heat from the peppers came.
The second sauce, you ask? Well… I used Apocalypse Scorpion Chocolate peppers, and it is HOT. It’s way better than the celery-tasting sauce. However, I did not write down the procedure, and you may find better recipes elsewhere anyway.
The Hottest Banana?
Well… not really, but here you will find a fermented hot sauce recipe with a banana.
Bananas contain a lot of starch and are flavorful with their sweet taste, and I thought that this would make a great addition to a hot sauce. Oh, by the way, you don’t have to use any sugar because of the sweetness of the banana. The starch, however, means that you’ll need more water than in most hot sauce recipes.
Why fermented hot sauces…
You may ask? First of all, I really like fermented stuff, from everything like sauerkraut, kombucha, and kimchi to tempeh (fermented beans). Additionally, a fermented hot sauce is milder but will have a deeper flavor.
Super hot peppers are lower in sugar than cabbage, so you may need to add something to start the fermentation process. There are many ways to do this. For instance, you can add a vegetable like a carrot. In this recipe, I used whey from yogurt to start the process. If you prefer a vegan hot sauce, you can probably increase the salt in the brine, and it will be just fine! For information on how to ferment vegetables, see here.
I hope you enjoy my experiment! Ehum, I mean the banana hot sauce! Let me know how it turns out for you.
Carolina Reaper Banana Hot Sauce
Ingredients
- 5 Carolina Reaper Chili Peppers Any pepper would do but if you use super hot peppers, wear gloves!
- 1 Banana
- 1 Lime
- 2 Cloves garlic
- 3 tbsp Whey See instructions
- 4 dl Water approx. 1.7 cups.
- 1 tbsp Salt
Instructions
Whey Starter Culture:
- Pour the water in a sauce pan and add the salt. Let it simmer on the stove until the salt is dissolved. Put aside and continue with the other ingredients.
- Slice the Carolina Reaper peppers and remove the seeds. Removing the seeds is optional but they can be used to grow your own peppers.
Hot Sauce:
- Mince the peppers and garlic.
- Slice the banana,
- Squeeze the juice out of the lime
- Add everything into a blender and mix until it becomes a mash
- Put the mash in a jar. The size is not super important. However, it should be 5 cm between the brine and the lid of the jar. Put a cheese cloth over the jar and put it somewhere dark for 30 days.
Finalizing the Sauce:
- Now when your mash is fermented put the mash back into a blender and mix until it is smooth. Filter the sauce through a sieve (if there are chunks left).
- Cook the sauce for 30 minutes. Stir occasionally and add water if the sauce gets to thick. Pour your super hot sauce into glass bottles!
Notes
This will give you roughly 500-600 ml of fiery hot sauce, depending on how much water you want to add. Now let me know if you have made hot sauce using banana! Leave comment below!