Fiery Habanero Hot Sauce

This homemade Fiery Habanero Hot Sauce recipe is exploding with the spicy, fruity flavor of fresh habanero peppers. It’s great on eggs, tacos, nachos, or anywhere you want to add loads of spicy flavor. A fun way to use up homegrown habaneros!

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Fiery Habanero Hot Sauce – I think serrano peppers are great for making foods spicy, but they don’t have very much flavor. Jalapenos have awesome flavor, but not quite enough heat.

Meanwhile, the orange habanero has a wonderful, fruit-forward flavor that also packs a lot of heat! It’s a Win-Win-Win (for my fellow The Office fans). Which is why I chose it to make this hot sauce!

Since my family is a bunch of chile heads, I cook with a lot of different types of chile peppers.

In fact, I’m growing habanero peppers, Anaheim chile peppers, hot banana peppers, jalapeno peppers, and sweet mini snacking peppers in my garden this year!

Making homemade hot sauce is a great way to use up an abundance of peppers growing in your garden!

Ingredients needed to make this recipe (scroll down to recipe card for complete recipe):

Habanero peppers – orange habaneros are used in this recipe
Onion
Garlic
Roma tomato
White vinegar
Water
Oil – vegetable oil or avocado oil
Salt

How to make Habanero Hot Sauce

To make this hot sauce, I start by sautéing the onion in oil to take the sharp bite of raw onion out and give the sauce a wonderful oniony flavor that’s slightly sweet to help mellow the spiciness from the habaneros.
After the onion has softened a little, add the garlic for just a minute or two, then throw it all in the blender with the rest of the ingredients and blend until nice and smooth.
The result is a slightly fruity, super flavorful hot sauce with head-sweating heat. Enjoy!

How to use Habanero Hot Sauce

My family loves spicy food, so we use it on EVERYTHING, however, here are some of our favorite uses:

On tacos or nachos
On the side for burritos
It’s great on eggs or breakfast casseroles
My kids love it as a dipping sauce with chicken tenders

How spicy is this hot sauce?

While not considered a “super hot” chile pepper, habanero peppers are still very hot. On the scoville scale, they have a rating of 100,000-350,000. In contrast, the jalapeno is between 2,500-8,000.

This sauce is for those looking for a hot sauce that is very hot – not for those looking for a mild or medium hot sauce!

It was designed for chile heads that, like my family, probably have a collection of hot sauce, order their Thai food with a spice level 8 or 9, add hot sauce to everything, and/or just love spicy food.

How long is homemade hot sauce good for?

Because it is not fermented, canned, or water bathed, this hot sauce should be stored in an air-tight container in the refrigerator and used within 1-2 weeks.

What else can you make with habanero peppers?

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NOTES:

This recipe was created using the traditional, orange habanero pepper. I did not recipe test this with white, red, chocolate or any other types of habanero.
Vegetable oil, olive oil, or avocado oil are all great in this recipe.
There will be potent fumes in the kitchen from making this hot sauce. Open a window for ventilation if you’re sensitive and/or have kids or pets near.
I have made this with between 9-14 habanero peppers. The spicier you like it, lean more towards 14. Even with 9 habaneros, this hot sauce is very spicy!
The easiest way to get the hot sauce from the blender to a bottle is with a funnel. If you need one, you can get one HERE from Amazon.

I just published 20 Recipes Using Habanero Peppers. It has main courses, side dishes, sauces, and even a dessert! Check out the recipes and let me know what you think!