My homemade green Tabasco® sauce recipe is hot and tangy, and so easy to make in your own kitchen! Use it on everything from eggs to tacos.
If you’re a hot sauce lover you’ve got to make a batch of this fresh homemade green Tabasco sauce!
Whether you call it green Tabasco, green sriracha, or salsa verde — this is the green version of a classic red hot sauce, made with a pound of jalapeño (or Serrano) chilies. You can be sure this sauce packs a wallop. If you love hot sauce, then you’ll love being able to make our own and control what goes in. It’s good on everything from scrambled eggs to tacos and it keeps plenty long enough to polish it off.
Let’s dig in
- homemade green Tabasco sauce ingredients
- how we’re using our homemade green hot sauce!
homemade green Tabasco sauce ingredients
- Serrano or jalapeno peppers
- Serranos are much hotter than Jalapeños, so choose according to your taste for heat. Mix them if you like.
- garlic
- salt
- brown sugar
- cider vinegar
Hot peppers are technically in season in late summer, so that’s an ideal time to make this sauce. But luckily you can get all kinds of peppers year round in most supermarkets, and they’re easy to grow, too. A lot of hot sauce recipes call for cooking the pureed peppers. I see no need for that, and I prefer the bright green color and the bright kick of the raw peppers. After pureeing them you let the mash hang out in the fridge for a day or two to mature. Then you strain the mixture, pressing like crazy to get all the juice extracted, and you’ll be left with a cup of pure green gold. I think green hot sauces have more of the fresh pepper flavor than the reds do. This one is really good and really versatile.
The puree hangs out in the fridge to mature for a day or two before being strained.
Recycled commercial hot sauce bottles are perfect to use because they let you pour the sauce out in dashes. Use a small funnel to fill them.
how we’re using our homemade green hot sauce!
- Fried Chicken Tacos
- Perfect Egg Tartines
- Sweet Corn and Hatch Chile Salsa
- Mexican Short Rib Tacos
- Mexican Fajita Steak Salad
- Steak Taco Crunch Wraps
Featured comment:
“Wow – I’m becoming such a fan, Sue! I make at least one of your recipes a week! We LOVE green sauce and with the abundance of jalapenos I have growing in my garden, they will no longer go to waste! Cheers!” ~ Candace
Homemade Green Tabasco Sauce
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A fiery bright green homemade Tabasco sauce!
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Prep Time:15 minutes minutes
Cook Time:1 day day
Total Time:1 day day 15 minutes minutes
Servings: 16
Ingredients
green tabasco
- 1 lb Serrano or jalapeno peppers*
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white or cider vinegar
Instructions
First make the tabasco ~ Rinse the peppers, and cut off the stem tops. Slice the peppers, seeds and all. Put them into the bowl of a food processor. Add the garlic, salt and brown sugar. Puree the mixture, pulsing and scraping down the sides of the machine as necessary to get it as finely pureed as you can. Note: Be careful as the fumes will be powerful. You may want to wear gloves, and be careful not to touch your eyes, nose, or mouth while working with hot peppers.
Add the vinegar to the peppers and stir well. Put the mash in a bowl or jar with a lid and refrigerate for 24 – 48 hours.
Strain the mixture through a mesh seive, pressing with the back of a spoon to get all the liquid out. Do it in batches, and keep at it — the more you press the more liquid will be released. You should end up with at least a cup of sauce.
Store the sauce in a clean bottle in the refrigerator. It should last a couple of months.
Give the bottle a shake before using as the contents will settle.
Notes
*Serrano peppers are hotter than jalapeños, so choose your Serranos for a hotter sauce, and jalapeños for a milder version.
Hot peppers are powerful, so be sure to wash well after handling them, and be extra careful around pets and children. If you’re sensitive to hot peppers, wear rubber gloves.
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Course: condiment
Cuisine: American
Author: Sue Moran
Keyword: hot sauce, jalapeños
Nutrition
Serving: 1 Tbsp · Calories: 13 kcal · Carbohydrates: 3 g · Protein: 1 g · Fat: 0.1 g · Saturated Fat: 0.02 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 0.01 g · Sodium: 149 mg · Potassium: 91 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 2 g · Vitamin A: 266 IU · Vitamin C: 13 mg · Calcium: 4 mg · Iron: 0.3 mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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