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I have had a life-long obsession with hot sauce. I love, love, love hot sauce.
In college I would make batches of homemade hot sauce and give bottles to my professors as Christmas presents.
When Scott and I went to Antiqua to learn how to sail last year, we stumbled upon “Susie’s Hot Sauce”. This stuff is as good as it gets. It’s light your A** on fire hot, but the flavor is so great you beg for more. After our 5 bottles of sauce ran out from our trip back home, I became obsessed with finding Susie’s recipe.
This was no easy feat. I played around with many combinations until I finally stumbled on a book called “Hot Licks – Great Recipes for making and cooking with hot sauces” by Jennifer Trainer Thompson (affiliate link). It seems the author had stumbled upon Caribbean hot sauces when she was on a sailboat delivery to the British Virgin islands and her boat had motor trouble and she was stuck in the outlying parts of the Bahamas chain. She then, too, became obsessed with this style sauce.
Jennifer, all I can say is “THANK YOU!” for getting stuck in the Bahamas so you could stay long enough to learn this basic hot sauce recipe and enlighten the rest of the world.
This recipe is slightly modified from the original, Jennifer Thompson “West Indian Pepper Sauce”.
Caribbean Hot Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ripe medium mango or papaya the smaller version, use only 1/2 if you use the large kind
- ½ medium yellow onion chopped
- 2 medium garlic cloves
- 1 inch piece of ginger root coarsely chopped
- 5 scotch bonnet of habanero peppers de-stemmed
- ½ tsp. turmeric
- 1 tblsp dry mustard
- pinch of cumin pinch of coriander
- ½ tblsp honey
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup cider vinegar
- 1 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- Puree ingredients # 1-9 in a blender. Transfer this mixture into a bowl.
- Next bring the vinger, water and salt to boil in a non reactive saucepan. Pour this mixture over the mango mixture and mix well. Allow to cool before putting in bottles.
- Keep the sauce in the refrigerator up to 6 weeks.
If you love hot sauce, try my SMOKED SRIRACHA!
https://grillgirl.com/2020/08/smoked-sriracha-sauce-recipe/
I can’t wait to try out your recipe, sounds so good!
I want a bottle!
And that looks more like falling overboard than sailing??? It’s an awesome shot!
This is a great hot sauce I use for wings!
Your Jerk sauce recipe looks good! I was just in the Caribean and enjoyed a delicious “Jerk Burger” in Ocho Rios. I purchased some Jerk sauce to bring back and design my own grillsport burger recipe that will surpass my Jamaican experience but I might try to use your sauce in the making instead.
Thanks! If love spice- let me know how it turns out. Also, if you like jerk rub, try this recipe https://grillgirl.wpengine.com/2010/11/florida-bbq-associations-ricky-ginsburgs-award-winning-jerk-rub-recipe/
it won the Jamaican jerk festival a few years back and is my friend Ricky Ginsberg’s recipe from hanging out in Jamaica.
Regards,
Robyn
you’re welcome! i have a new hot sauce book coming out next year, to be published by Storey/Workman. Love the photo.
Jennifer,
I love hot sauce and really liked HotLicks so I will be first in line to purchase! 🙂
Thank you for the comment and the recipe! I will link that blog post to your book on amazon!
Cheers,
Robyn
hi. i have been using your hot sauce for a very long time, its the best thing since cavalier rum,here in new york, i cant find it any where,could u tell me where i can find it.
Hi Gordon,
This is a recipe from a cookbook but I think you can buy suzies hotsauce online at one of those hotsauce sites. I”ll see if I can find the site I’ve used in the past and email it to you.
Thanks for the recipe Robyn!
Yes you can buy Susie’s online, just ordered a case of the original. It is one of the best………Bob
https://www.susieshotsauce.com
Tried a variation of this sauce.
Used lime juice instead of vinegar,
Used an inch of fresh grated turmeric
Dejon mustard and
3 teaspoons of molasses added depth of flavour.
All good for a Caribean recipe
Cheers and thanks
Hi Will I Am- I will definitely give your version a try. Oh how I love hotsauce!
OMG I love love love this recipe it is soo delicious and has a perfect amount of heat for me…not too hot but definitely puts my mouth on fire. I can’t stop eating it, but i don’t know what to eat it on, i even dipped my peach in it last night lol. I just love this and will certainly make it again!
I just completed the recipe but with 12 carribean red habaneros from my backyard instead of 5 and, OMG, this is the best hot souce i’ve ever made. Fantastic smooth, butter-like sensation and not so hot, just a bit more of Tabasco sauce. I definitely love it. Thank your sincerely for the recipe, fantastic again over grilled chicken and toasted italian bread.