hot sauce – The Vegan Rhino

Learn how to make a fermented hot sauce with these 7 simple ingredients that will give new meaning to your chilis and peppers. Ive been recently growing a ton of ghost, apache, and scotch bonnet peppers and thought how could I use these before they go bad? With that question in mind, I decided to mix them together to create this tasty hot sauce that packs the heat. Before you even consider this being too difficult of a task, let me reassure you that it takes maybe 5 minutes of actual prep time to make this. Once you place the hot sauce mixture on the counter top, you just let nature do its thing and allow the fermentation process to begin. After 5 days, you have one heck of a sauce! Making your own hot sauce is a fun DIY project and a great way for beginners to learn how to ferment, you should give it a try.

Yield 4 oz. or 1/2 cup

Ingredients

2 ghost peppers

2 scotch bonnet peppers

10-12 hot apache peppers

1 medium carrot, sliced

2 garlic cloves, peeled

3/4 tsp. coarse sea salt

1/4 cup filtered water

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar

Directions

Blend all of the ingredients except for the vinegar. Add mixture into a clean mason jar and cover with a cheese cloth. Allow to sit on the counter for 24 hours before adding the apple cider vinegar to the mixture.
Keep covered on the counter for 5 days. Pour mixture into a cheesecloth lined colander and squeeze out all of the liquid (be sure to wear gloves).
Heat hot sauce in a sauce pot until it reaches 185 degrees F. Bottle hot sauce in a mason jar and allow to cool before storing in the refrigerator.

Chef’s tip: For a more mild hot sauce, take out the seeds from the peppers before pulverizing them in the blender.

A crispy pizza topped with colorful plant-based ingredients. Now that is a pie! Instead of using normal marinara sauce, this pizza is drizzled in hot sauce to make one of the simplest veggie pizza’s. After letting the dough rise and pressing it down into a circle or rectangle shape, you get to decide what you will top it with. This part can be totally up to you and what you have on hand or buy. I went with what I had and made this supreme hot sauce veggie pizza. After making this, you will be flipping dough in the air in no time! Make sure to give this a try the next time you are craving some pizza.

Yields 8 slices

Ingredients

Dough:

2 1/4 tsp. Red Star Active Dry Yeast

1 tsp. Simple Truth organic sugar

1 cup warm filtered water

2 1/2 cups King Arthur organic flour

2 Tbsp. Vitacost certified organic extra virgin olive oil

1 tsp. Vitacost Himalayan Fine Pink Salt

Toppings:

2 mushrooms

1/2 cup eggplant, cubed

1/4 cup red onion

4 small garlic cloves, whole

1/4 cup red hot sauce

Sprinkle vegan cheddar cheese

Directions:

In a bowl, dissolve yeast, sugar, and warm water. Allow it to get foamy on top, roughly 5-7 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Stir in the flour, oil, and salt to form the dough. Allow to rest for 20 minutes covered.
When dough is done resting, then out onto a lightly floured surface to roll pizza into circle or rectangular shape.
Pour hot sauce over dough and then add your toppings.
Bake for 10 minutes and then rotate- cooking for an additional 5-10 minutes or until desired browness is achieved.

Chef’s tip: To crisp up the sides and top of the pizza, place under the broiler after baking for 2-3 minutes. This will get you a nicely colored crust and crispy-gooey cheese. If for any reason the bbq sauce it too spicy, you can add 1 Tbsp. vegan butter to mild it out.

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