🌶️Simple 10-Minute Hot Sauce

Pepper Joe’s Kitchen

Prep Time

5 minutes

Cook Time

10 minutes

Category

Hot Sauce

Perfect for beginners — fast, flavorful, scalable.

This simple 10-minute hot sauce is the perfect starting point if you’re new to making hot sauce or looking for a fast way to use fresh, fermented, or frozen peppers. It’s flexible, forgiving, and easily customized for any heat tolerance, from mild Scotch Bonnets to face-melting Carolina Reapers.


Whether you’re working with leftover pepper mash or starting fresh after harvest, this recipe delivers bold flavor with minimal effort.


Ingredients:

½ cup pepper mash (any heat level)

½ cup vinegar (white, apple cider, or rice vinegar)

2–3 cloves garlic, smashed

1–2 tsp salt or hot pepper salt for an extra kick

Optional: 1–2 tbsp honey or sugar to balance

Optional: squeeze of lime

🌶️Simple 10-Minute Hot Sauce

Ingredients

  • Scotch Bonnet Mash Puree

  • Ghost Pepper Mash Puree

  • Carolina Reaper Mash Puree

  • Ghost Pepper Salt

Directions

  1. Add everything to a small pot.
  2. Bring to a simmer for 5 minutes.
  3. Let it cool slightly, then blend until smooth.
  4. Bottle it, refrigerate it, and let the flavors develop overnight.
Steaming pot of homemade hot sauce on stovetop surrounded by fresh bell peppers, garlic, lime, cilantro, and Pepper Joe's Carolina Reaper mash jar

🌶️ Simple 10-Minute Hot Sauce

Grow → Harvest → Sauce

This recipe is a great way to use peppers you’ve grown at home. From mild to wild, growing your own peppers lets you control flavor, heat, and freshness from seed to sauce.

👉 Looking to grow your own peppers? We offer pepper seeds, live plants, and growing supplies so you can create sauces like this straight from your garden.

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