If you’re lucky enough to get your hands on some ghost chiles, I highly recommend making this Ghost Chile Hot Sauce ~ a fragrant and powerfully hot sauce.
A few weeks ago just before Hurricane Sandy hit, I received a box of exotic foods from Frieda’s, including a pack of vibrant red chile peppers. I had no idea what these peppers were called, but they were a brilliant red and just plain beautiful. I was playing around with these red chile peppers with my bare hands – a big mistake! Even after washing my hands numerous times, the oils from the hot chile peppers were still on my fingers and the next morning when I tried to get my contact lenses in, boy did I cry.
Ghost Hot Chiles
Lesson #1: Always wear gloves when handling hot chile peppers, especially when they are the hottest pepper in the world! I actually had no idea how spicy these chile peppers were until I emailed Frieda’s to find out what type of chile peppers they had sent me. When I read that Ghost Chiles were the world’s hottest chile pepper, with a Scoville Unit rating of about 1 million, I realized why my eyes burned so much.
So, what do you do with these Ghost Chile Peppers that are astronomically hot? The best thing I can think to do is to make some Hot Sauce. Frieda’s sent me a fact sheet on Ghost Chiles which included a recipe for “Hurtin’ Hot Sauce (Proceed with caution!)” This recipe intrigued me because it called for a lot of tomatoes and some red bell pepper in addition to the Ghost Chile Peppers. I removed the seeds from the Ghost Chile Peppers even though the recipe only said to remove the stems.
Even without the Ghost Chile Pepper seeds, and the addition of tomatoes and red bell peppers, this Ghost Chile Hot Sauce was fiery. Ghost Chile Peppers have an exotic, fruity aroma that is so enticing – even though this Hot Sauce is really hot, you’ll want to dip a spoon in just to taste it.
P.S.This is one of the items I couldn’t bare to throw out when Hurricane Sandy hit, so I actually brought it over to my friend’s house and stored it in their refrigerator. So glad I did, as I had to throw out all my condiments and when the power came back on, I still had this chile sauce.
Analyzed to serve 48 (approx.. 1 Tbsp per serving). Calories 30, Total Fat 0g, Saturated Fat 0g, Trans Fat 0g, Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 30mg, Total Carbohydrate 6g, Dietary Fiber 2g, Sugars 4g, Protein 2g, Vitamin A 40%, Vitamin C 10%
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Red Hot Homemade Ghost Chile Hot Sauce
Extremely hot! I did not use the ghost chile pepper seeds and this sauce was still really spicy. Ghost chile peppers are very fragrant, so while they are the hottest pepper in the world, they are incredibly flavorful and beautiful.
Prep Time15minutes
Cook Time20minutes
Total Time35minutes
Ingredients
6ghost chiles
1small red bell pepperdiced
1 28-ouncecan whole tomatoespureed
1/2medium oniondiced
2garlic clovescut in half
2tablespoonscider vinegar
1tablespoonorganic sugar
Instructions
Wearing gloves, remove stems and seeds from ghost chiles.
Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan and add enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes until vegetable are soft.
Make your own ghost pepper hot sauce at home with this recipe, which includes plenty of chopped ghost peppers, tomatoes, vinegar and salt. Big flavor, big spice! With a pleasant blast of heat. Drizzle it over everything!
If you still think eating this pepper is something you want to try, be aware that capsaicin is the primary factor that makes peppers hot. This substance activates the pain sensors in your nerves, and too much of it has caused some to experience seizures, heart attacks, or hallucinations.
It is a type of chili pepper sauce that gets its name from the ghost chili pepper, which is one of the hottest peppers in the world, measuring in at over 1 million Scoville heat units (SHU). For comparison, jalapeño peppers measure around 2,500-5,000 SHU, while habanero peppers measure around 100,000-350,000 SHU.
As we said, it only causes a painful burning sensation, but it isn't actually doing any damage. Nevertheless, it can hurt if you've got an underlying condition or if you eat an insane amount in one sitting. Candidly, ghost peppers can cause seizures, heart attacks, and even death.
Doomed is the Hottest Sauce in the World!!! Spiked with 6.66 million SHU natural pepper extract, this sauce tests out in the lab at 2.76 million Scoville heat units!
There are all different kinds of vinegar used in cuisine today, from white wine vinegar, red wine vinegar, apple cider vinegar, rice wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar, and champagne vinegar. However, the best and most common kind used for hot sauces is white wine vinegar.
Bright red color and slight wrinkling of the skin are signs that they have reached full maturity. Reaching maturity will take between 120 and 150 days on average. They can be harvested at any stage of development if desired, but they are spiciest when fully mature.
Are Dried Chiles Hotter Than Fresh? Our customers often want to know if dried chiles are hotter than fresh and the short answer is: Yes. The long answer is, the heat in chiles comes from the chemical compound capsaicin. As a chile dries, the components in it, like capsaicin, concentrate.
Pack peppers into jars, leaving a 1/2 inch headspace between peppers and the tops of jars. Ladle hot vinegar mixture into the jars, enough to cover the peppers, leaving 1/2 inch headspace between the liquid and top of the jar. Remove any large air bubbles.
“The hottest peppers, like ghost peppers, can kill you. But it's highly unlikely,” Allan Capin, MD, an urgent-care physician at the Cleveland Clinic Family Health Center in Florida, said in an article published by Cleveland Clinic earlier this year.
On the Scoville scale, the Carolina Reaper has a heat level of 1.5 million to 2.2 million Scoville heat units (SHUs), while the Ghost Pepper has a heat level of 855,000 to 1.1 million SHUs.
Of course, the Scoville rating of ghost peppers can slightly vary from one fruit and sauce to another. This is because various factors contribute to the final spiciness, like seed lineage, soil type, humidity levels, ripeness, etc. So, ghost peppers can have a Scoville rating ranging from 855,000 to 1,041,427 SHU.
A ghost pepper (Bhut Jolokia) is a hot chili pepper that is widely used in traditional cuisines around the world, particularly in India and South Asia. It is known for its unique fruity and slightly sweet flavor, as well as its intense heat, with an average Scoville rating of around 1 million units.
It has a slight spiciness to the scent, but it's deceiving because the taste is EXTREMELY spicy. The spice level is INSANE. Even after a tiny taste, my mouth was ON FIRE! Allow me to confirm that the Ghost Pepper definitely makes this sauce VERY SPICY with a major burn.
But the hottest sauce in the world is Pure Evil 13 Million, which is a pure concentrate that reaches 13 million on the Scoville Scale. Not for the feint of heart! A single drop from the vial will be plenty to heat up a meal. If you want to try the hottest pepper in the world, we'd recommend pure Carolina Reaper Puree.
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