Remember those charming pepper vinegar jars popping up as kitchen décor? They’re not just pretty; they’re flavorsome. Unleash your inner chef and prepare this amazing Southern pepper sauce. Tabasco peppers + white vinegar + salt, and you’re good to go. Quick, easy, and a must for most Southern meals with this hot pepper vinegar recipe.
Tabasco Peppers in Vinegar Recipe:
Ingredients:
- Fresh tabasco peppers but cayenne, serrano or Thai peppers are idea.
- 1 ½ cups distilled white vinegar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Equipment needed:
- Cruet jar or decorative jar with a stopper- always use a jar with a cork or glass stopper never metal
- Small saucepan
- Wooden chopstick, optional to poke the peppers down into the jar
- Funnel
How to make hot pepper vinegar:
Instructions:
- Wash the tabasco peppers and spread them out on a tea towel to dry. Wash and dry your cruet jar or any glass jar with a stopper.
- Drop the red peppers in the clean jar and use the wooden chopstick to pack them to the bottom. Continue to pack and fill to the top.
- Measure the vinegar into a small saucepan and heat just to boiling, add salt, stir and remove from heat.
- Pour the vinegar salt mixture into the jar over the peppers.
- Close the jar with the stopper and let stand at room temperature for at least 3 weeks then it can be refrigerated. Or leave at room temperature for up to 6 months.
How to use this Southern Pepper Sauce:
Uses for Hot Pepper vinegar:
Use as a condiment for cooked spinach, mustard green or collards. And other Southern dishes such as black eyed peas, Hopping john, fried catfish, red beans and rice or Texas pinto beans and ham hocks.
Other Southern Dishes:
Bring the authentic taste of the South into your kitchen with this simple tabasco peppers in vinegar recipe. This age-old southern pepper sauce, loved by many as a condiment and now making waves as a kitchen decor, is a perfect blend of taste and convenience. For a culinary experience that’s as rewarding as it is delicious, PIN this pepper sauce recipe and let it spice up your Southern meals.
Tabasco Peppers in Vinegar
Equipment
- Cruet jar or decorative jar with a stopper- always use a jar with a cork or glass stopper never metal
- Wooden chopstick optional to poke the peppers down into the jar
Ingredients
- Fresh tabasco peppers or cayenne serrano or Thai peppers
- 1 ½ cups distilled white vinegar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Wash the tabasco peppers and spread them out on a tea towel to dry. Wash and dry your cruet jar or any glass jar with a stopper.
- Drop the red peppers in the clean jar and use the wooden chopstick to pack them to the bottom. Continue to pack and fill to the top.
- Measure the vinegar into a small saucepan and heat just to boiling, add salt, stir and remove from heat.
- Pour the vinegar salt mixture into the jar over the peppers.
- Close the jar with the stopper and let stand at room temperature for at least 3 weeks then it can be refrigerated. Or leave at room temperature for up to 6 months.
Donna
Friday 20th of October 2023
I fixed these peppers. I did not check to see if my top leaked. I was admiring a jar and turned it upside down. The vinegar leaked out. Does this mean that these jar of peppers are bad and should be thrown out?
Evelyn
Sunday 22nd of October 2023
As long as you caught it quickly it should be ok, but be sure and look for signs of spoilage.
Denise
Friday 13th of October 2023
Can I use dehydrated peppers to do yjis?
Evelyn
Saturday 14th of October 2023
I'm not sure, I have never tried it but I don't believe it would be as good.
Sharon
Thursday 21st of September 2023
Thank you so much for this recipe! I'm a displaced southern girl living in Idaho with nowhere to buy pepper sauce (as my Georgia family calls it). It has become ridiculously priced online. The next three weeks is going to crawl before I can use. Thank you again!
Evelyn
Saturday 23rd of September 2023
Yay!! You are so welcome! Use Southern girls have to stick together! Enjoy!
Molly
Friday 26th of August 2016
I grew up with these. It's been too long, gotta make them.