How To Make Mexican Hot Sauces: 5 Easy Recipes

Have you tried making your own hot sauce yet?!

It’s super easy, and your homemade versions will have more buzz than store-bought options. This is a good thing 🙂

I hope this post inspires you to try it. This hot jalapeno sauce is the perfect place to start:

Here’s a look at the ingredient list for this fiery fireball:

1 pound jalapeno peppers (8-10 jalapenos)
1/2 onion
2 cloves of garlic
3/4 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup water
Juice of 1 lime
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Mexican oregano
1/4 teaspoon cumin (optional)
8-10 sprigs of coriander
freshly ground black pepper

All you need to do is cook the onion and garlic, then combine them well with the other ingredients in a blender or food processor. Easy right?

Keep in mind that acidity is the unspoken hero in hot sauces—that’s what distinguishes a hot sauce from a salsa. When you only use a few drops at a time, you want it to be fiery and acidic!

That’s why you’ll see vinegar in all of these hot sauce recipes. I usually use plain white vinegar and recommend starting with that.

These hot sauces will keep for weeks in the refrigerator, and glass is the preferred storage choice.

I usually store them in leftover hot sauce bottles, but sometimes I use mason jars and it works just as well.

If you have some chipotle adobo on hand, you can easily make this delicious chipotle hot sauce.

Here’s a look at the ingredient list:

7 -8 chipotles in adobo What exactly are chipotles in adobo?
1/4 small onion
1 clove of garlic
1/3 cup white vinegar
1/3 cup water
juice of 1/2 orange
3/4 teaspoon Mexican oregano
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon sugar (optional)
pinch of salt

It’s loaded with that smoky chipotle flavor. And yes, lots of acidity too.

Again, you’re simply cooking the onion and garlic and then combining them with the other ingredients. It’s super easy and I bet there’s a chance you already have all these ingredients on hand!

The other one I make regularly is this spicy Habanero hot sauce.

Here’s what you’ll need to make it happen:

6 habanero peppers How hot are habanero peppers?
3/4 cup sliced ​​peaches
1/4 cup pineapple
1 small onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 piece of peeled ginger
3/4 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup water
1/2 teaspoon salt
a pinch of cumin (optional)
a pinch of agave or honey (optional)

Habaneros are small and packed with heat, so you’ll typically see the fruit used to enrich these hot sauces.

I used peaches and pineapple for this batch, but there’s a lot of leeway in choosing the fruit.

For example, I used mango in this Mango Habanero Hot Sauce:

Both hot Habanero sauces work great as a finishing touch on tacos, especially on something like these Baja Fish Tacos.

And lastly I want to mention this Serrano hot sauce.

Serranos have more heat than Jalapenos AND I added a Habanero to this recipe. So yes, this is for all you heat lovers out there 🙂

Here’s a look at the ingredient list:

1/2 pound Serrano peppers (18-20 Serrano)
1 Habanero pepper (optional)
1/4 onion
1 clove of garlic
1/2 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup water
Juice of 1 lime
freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Mexican oregano
1/4 teaspoon cumin (optional)
8-10 sprigs of coriander

This is a fireball, so I typically recommend people start with the hot Jalapeno sauce and then go from there.

Don’t forget that you will always need to use caution when handling hot peppers, especially Habaneros.

Here’s more information on working with hot peppers.

Ok, I hope you found a keeper recipe in this post!

Making your own hot sauce is surprisingly easy and is a great way to add some zing to your cooking.

Let me know if you have questions about any of these recipes:

Hot jalapeno sauce

Spicy Chipotle Sauce

Habanero hot sauce

Mango Habanero Sauce

Serrano spicy sauce

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Enjoy!

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