Chilli Sauce – Someone Like it Hot
Chilli Sauce is one of the basic condiments used everywhere around the world. Many world cuisines are based around chilli peppers! Find all about the burning sensation of Chilli Sauce and start building your spice tollerance.
Chillies make you fit.
Spicy food speeds up your metabolism. Eating spicy food also reduce the appetite so it can be part of your weight loss diet.
What does typical Chilli sauce consist of?
Usual combination is crushed fresh or dried red peppers. Vinegar, water and a binder that makes sauce consistent.
Chilli peperse reduces inflammation
Capsacin protects from inflammation of your nervous system. It can relive the pain. Can be remedy for ulcers, diarhea or other digestive problems.
Chilli peppers conserve food
Capsaicin slow down growth of bacteria in the food. In many cultures food is spicy becuase capsaicin prevents the food getting spoiled.
All You Need To Know About Chilly Sauce
What is the correct spelling?
Chili, Chilli, Chilly, Chile. How do we correctly spell hot pepper sauce? "Chili" with single L is standard spelling in American English. "Chilli" spelled with double L is standard British spelling. In Spanish speaking countries "chile" is the most common version. "Chilly" means cold and "Chile" with capital C is a country in South America.
What makes chili peppers spicy?
Capsaicin is natural side product of chilli peppers. It causes the burning sensation in any tissue that it comes in contact. The burn feeling is only sensual. Capsaicin does not destroy any of your cells at all. Capsaicin is present in the flesh of chili peppers. The seed themselves do not contain capsaicin however the white flesh connecting them to the pulp has the highest concentration.
What is Scoville heat unit? (or SHU)
It is the dilution necessary to feel the Capsaicin in sugar water. The higher SHU the more water you need to dilute to the undetectable level. The hight SHU the hotter the chilli pepper is. Hottest chilli peppers range in 3,000,000 SHU which is comparable with Law enforcement pepper spray.
How spicy is Smokeless Kitchen hot sauce?
The best way is to try. Kenyans sensitivity to hot food lead us to opt out for refined chilli sauce with balanced taste that is less hot. On the scale 1-10 from 1 being not hot at all to 10 being extreme hot when you're choking Smokeless Kitchen Chili Sauce sauce would score somewhere around 3. However for Kenyan taste palette it can be somewhere around 4-5.
What are hottest chilli peppers in the world?
- Carolina Reaper (1,500,000-3,000,000 SHU)
- Chocolate 7 Pot (923,889-1,853,986 SHU)
- Moruga Scorpion (750,000-1,500,000 SHU)
- Trinidad Scorpion Butch T (1,000,000-1,463,700 SHU)
- Naga Viper (1,382,118 SHU)
- Infinity Chili (1,067,286 SHU)
- Gibraltar Naga (1,086,844 SHU)
- 7 Pot Chili (923,889-1,853,986 SHU)
- Traditional Ghost Pepper (1,041,427 SHU)
- Chocolate Ghost Pepper (800,000-1,001,304 SHU)
- Trinidad Scorpion CARDI (800,000-1,000,000 SHU)
- Naga Morich (1,000,000 SHU)
- Red Savina (350,000-577,000 SHU)
- Tigerpaw (265,000-328,000 SHU)
- Devil’s Tongue (125,000-325,000 SHU)
- Fatalii – Native to Caribean and Africa! (125,000-400,000 SHU)
- Habañero – White Habanero, Caribbean Red Habanero, Orange Habanero, Chocolate Habanero (150,000-350,000 SHU)
- Jalapeño pepper (2,500-10,000 SHU)
- Bell pepper (0-100 SHU)
There are many more pepper types around the world. Just to mention few Tabasco Pepper, Mirasol Chili, Piri Piri, Rocoto Pepper, Cayenne Pepper, Serrano Pepper, Anaheim Pepper or Poblano Pepper.
Do you have any questions about chilli sauce?
Simple 3 Steps
Chilli Sauce
Makes 6 x 200ml bottles of chilli sauce.
Only 6 ingredients!2 Cups-Serenade Chili Peppers
2 Tablespoons-Roasted Garlic
0.5 Cup-Apple Cider Vinegar
2 Tablespoons – Cane Sugar
1.5-Cup Water
1 Teaspoon-Salt
Preparation
1. Add to pot:
"• Chilly Peppers-Wash, remove stems, open and remove seeds. Cut them into small pieces. Add some seeds back for texture."
• Vinegar
• Garlic-Cut into small pieces
• Cane Sugar
• Salt
2. Bring to boil. Stir ocasionaly. Cook for 20 minutes on low heat.
3. Blend smoot with blender or crush chillies through metal strainer.
Eat fresh or store in fridge.
No time to prepare homade chilli sauce for your next dinner party?
Chilli Sauce
Chilli Sauce is made with local Kenyan chilies and roasted garlic for a fresh and natural taste. Great for adding a kick of flavour to a burger or fries.
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