Tabasco Peppers in Vinegar

Make southern pepper sauce by adding tabasco peppers in vinegar. This hot pepper vinegar recipe is easy and a must for most Southern meals.

Course Condiment

Cuisine American, Southern, Texas

Keyword hot pepper vinegar, Peppers in Vinegar, Southern Pepper Sauce, Tabasco Peppers in Vinegar

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Infusing Time 21

Total Time 21 20

Servings

Calories 3kcal

Author Evelyn

Equipment

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

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.

Notes

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.

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