Spicy sauce makes the taste of the dish more saturated, thereby stimulating the appetite. Many studies prove that the "fiery" spices in its composition make food healthier, accelerate metabolism, promote weight loss, improve blood circulation, warm during hypothermia, and help in the fight against colds. What is the spicy sauce in the world? How can you cook it yourself? Read about it in our article.
Tabasco sauce: composition and recipe
One of the most popular spicy sauces in the world is Tabasco. In its manufacture, the pulp of ripe cayenne peppers, vinegar and salt are used. The classic red Tabasco sauce is aged for 3 years in oak barrels. It has a sour piquant aroma and a rich pungent taste. In dishes, sauce should be added literally drop by drop, so it is burning.
At home, Tabasco sauce can be prepared from any
hot pepper, but it is advisable to use cayenne or at least chili. So the taste of the sauce will be more similar to the original version.
Before working with pepper you need to wear gloves on your hands. After that, wash the pepper, cut it in half and remove the seeds from it. You only need its pulp, but only if you do not want to cook too hot and spicy version. In addition, you need to take a little water, 50 ml of apple or white vinegar (wine), salt to taste. Load all ingredients into a blender and grind well until smooth. Adjust the amount of water to your liking. Ready sauce can be wiped through a fine sieve if desired.
On a scale of W. Scovilla, the most spicy sauce in the world, “Tabasco” - is “Habanero” (Tabasco Habanero), the burning ability of which is 7-9 thousand units. At the same time, the stickiness of the classic Tabasco red sauce is 2500-5000 units, and green - from 600 to 1200 units.
Thai Sauce Recipe
When preparing the next hot sauce, completely different varieties of hot pepper are already used . These include Thai pepper and others. Their hotness on a scale of W. Scovilla can be estimated in the range from 50 thousand to 10 thousand units.
Thai sauce, prepared according to this recipe, has a spicy spicy-sweet taste, perfectly in harmony with grilled chicken. To make it at home, you will need hot pepper (2 pcs.), 3 cloves of garlic, 50 ml of apple or brown rice vinegar, 100 g of sugar, ½ teaspoon of sea salt, water (150 ml).
All ingredients must be crushed with a blender to the desired structure (so that small pieces remain). After this, Thai sauce should be poured into a small saucepan, put on low heat and boil it for 3-4 minutes until a thick consistency. Store in a glass jar in the refrigerator for a month.
Chili sauce: a traditional recipe
Not a single traditional dish of national Mexican and Asian cuisine can do without chili sauce. Its constant ingredient is pepper of the same name, whose homeland is considered to be Latin America. It is served hot or cold for meat and fish dishes.
At home, you can cook a delicious chili sauce yourself. Its recipe involves the use of such ingredients: pepper (7 pcs.), Garlic (6-7 cloves), 150 ml of vinegar, salt and sugar to taste. Pepper must first be cleaned of seeds. Then, in a small saucepan, combine the chopped pepper pulp, garlic, vinegar, salt (4-5 teaspoons) and sugar (1 teaspoon). Put the dishes on the stove and simmer for 12-15 minutes until the sauce becomes thick. Then grind it directly in the pan with a blender and pour into a glass container. Keep refrigerated.
Cooking Hot Pepper Sauce
Any sauces based on red hot pepper contain one unique substance - capsaicin, which contributes to the production of endorphins, or “hormones of happiness”. It is enough to cook a delicious dinner and serve it with a burning sauce, and a good mood will be ensured.
Hot pepper sauce can be called universal. You can cook it from pepper of any kind, thereby regulating the desired sharpness. For a classic sauce you will need:
- hot pepper (300 g);
- garlic (5-6 cloves);
- salt (1.5 tbsp.spoons);
- sugar (1.5 teaspoons);
- lime juice (1 tbsp.spoon);
- vegetable oil (1.5 tbsp.spoons).
Pepper to clear seeds and stalk, peel garlic. Put the ingredients in a blender and grind to a smoothie condition. Send the resulting mass to the pan, add salt, sugar, lime juice and vegetable oil. Let the sauce boil, immediately remove the pan from the heat and put it on ice. Serve cold to meat and fish.
New Mexico Scorpions Sauce
The recipe for this sauce was invented and brought to life by cooks from the US state of New Mexico. On a scale of W. Scovilla, this burning seasoning to the main dish scored almost 2 million units. The sharpest sauce in the world, New Mexico Scorpions is prepared on the basis of Infinity Chili pepper, which is considered to be one of the most burning. Otherwise, the technology for preparing seasoning differs little from other recipes.
Garlic, salt, sugar, vinegar and water are added to the sauce to give a pungent taste and a pleasant consistency. The crushed ingredients are cooked on low heat for several minutes, after which the sauce is cooled and served on the table. When added to main courses, it is important not to overdo it. The sauce is so burning that when you use it in large quantities, you can cause a burn to the esophagus and get other unpleasant consequences for the body.
English Atomic Kick Ass Sauce
The sauces presented above cannot be compared to Atomic Kick Ass. The name of the sauce, which is served with fried chicken drumsticks, in translation means "atomic explosion." Indeed, Atomic Kick Ass is the sharpest sauce in the world today, because its scorchiness on the scale of W. Scovilla is about 12 million units.
The sauce contains the most “fiery” peppers of the varieties Trinidad Scorpion Moruga (Moruga Scorpion) and Carolina Reaper (Carolina Ripper). Its secret ingredient is a special pepper extract, the burning ability of which is 13 million units on the Scovilla scale. The sauce made from these peppers is spicy, but very tasty, with a pleasant spicy taste and a fruity aftertaste.
Doctors advise all lovers of "spicy" not to abuse "fiery" sauces in order to avoid health problems in the future.