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Sriracha Recipe

by Peter May » Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:08 am

I came across this recipe for a 'Huy Fong' lookalike homemade sriracha sauce that looks interesting...

See http://food52.com/recipes/25360-homemade-sriracha

I've not tasted the Rooster brand Sriracha that's popular in the USA; I did look for it on my last trip but found only a very large plastic jar of it that was too big to buy considering I couldn't travel home with it.

I want to taste to see what the fuss is about, but at home there are a huge number of chilli sauces and after tasting too many of them at a chilli festival I settled on a couple from a small local maker http://fatmanchilli.co.uk/

The above recipe is interesting because it lets the chillis ferment before making the sauce. I tried making a sauce with chillis just by chopping them small in a food mixer and adding some vinegar -- the fumes were overpowering and I've not dared open the sauce because I'm not sure I did enough to make it sterile.
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Re: Sriracha Recipe

by Paul Winalski » Thu Feb 12, 2015 11:31 am

In my opinion, you're not missing anything for not having tasted Huy Fong sriracha. Compared to the imported Thai srirachas I've had (such as Shark and Flying Goose), Huy Fong comes across as coarse and artificial-tasting.

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