From veteran cookbook author Robb Walsh, this definitive guide to the world's most beloved condiment is a must-have for fans of dishes that can never be too spicy.Here's a cookbook that really packs a punch. With dozens of recipes for homemade pepper sauces and salsas-including riffs on classic brands like Frank's RedHot, Texas Pete, Crystal, and Sriracha-plus step-by-step instructions for fermenting your own pepper mash, The Hot Sauce Cookbook will leave you amazed by the fire and vibrancy of your homemade sauces. Recipes for Meso-american salsas, Indonesian sambal, and Ethiopian berbere showcase the sweeping history and range of hot sauces around the world. If your taste buds can handle it, Walsh also serves up more than fifty recipes for spice-centric dishes-including Pickapeppa Pot Roast, the Original Buffalo Wing, Mexican Micheladas, and more. Whether you're a die-hard chilehead or just a DIY-type in search of a new pantry project, your cooking is sure to climb up the Scoville scale with The Hot Sauce Cookbook.
Veteran food writer and three-time James Beard Award winner Robb Walsh is the author of more than a dozen cookbooks, including the iconic Tex-Mex Cookbook and Legends of Texas Barbecue. A former restaurant reviewer for the Austin Chronicle, Houston Press, and Houstonia Magazine, Walsh lives in Houston, Texas, and co-owns El Real Tex-Mex Cafe with chef Bryan Caswell. He is a cofounder and board member of Foodways Texas.
Introduction chapter 1 Hurts So Good Roasted Green Chiles Escabeche (Pickled Peppers) Fried Chiles (Chiles Toreados) chapter 2 Mesoamerican Chilmoles "Son of Suchilquitongo" Salsa Verde Roasted Green Chile Sauce Easy Mole Poblano Chicken Enchiladas David Garrido's Ancho-Tomatillo Sauce Molcajete Sauce Pico de Gallo Mexican Shrimp Cocktail Michelada Sikil Pak Xnipec Ensalada de Nopalitos DIY Pace Picante Sauce chapter 3 Island Heat Pepper Crabs Carib Crab Salsa Crab Backs Boston Beach Jerk Rub Jerk Barbecue Pepper Sherry Pepper Vinegar (Pique) Vinegar Barbecue Sauce Caribbean Pepper Mash Papaya Fire Mango Salsa Chez Francine's Sauce Piment Pickapeppa Pot Roast chapter 4 Louisiana hot Sauces Fermented Pepper Mash Homemade Pepper Sauce Homemade Buffalo Chicken Wings Kevin Roberts's Beer Wings Trey Moran's Ancho BBQ Sauce Bloody Mary Texas Pete BBQ Pork BBQ Pork Sandwiches Backyard Oyster Bar chapter 5 International pepper Sauces Spicy Peanut Sauce Nuoc Mam Cham (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce) Goi Cuon (Vietnamese Summer Rolls) Homemade Sriracha Sauce Sambal Green Curry Paste Green Curry Shrimp Berbere Doro Wat Piri-Piri Sauce Hot Ajvar chapter 6 Chilehead Chefs' Hot Sauces Raj Dixit's Tomato-Coriander Berbere Raj Dixit's Green Curry Chow-Chow Raj Dixit's Pineapple Pique Zak Pelaccio's Malaysian Chicken Wings David Chang's Red-Eye Mayo Bryan Caswell's Sriracha Citrus Remoulade Bryan Caswell's Shrimp with Sriracha Citrus Remoulade Randy Clemens's Sriracha-Sesame Fruit Salad Chris Shepherd's Nuoc Cham Chicken Salad Stephan Pyles's Shrimp Ceviche Stephan Pyles's Habanero Cranberry Sauce Fire and Ice Cream Index