Instant Pot Hot Sauce
Instant Pot Hot Sauce is tasty and easy to make. A versatile pressure cooker hot sauce recipe that you can make from any variety of chile pepper. Customize the ingredients to make it your own!
Servings: 4 5 oz bottles
Equipment
- 4 5-ounce Glass Hot Sauce Bottles (available on Amazon)
Ingredients
Red Hot Sauce
- ¾ - 1 lb Fresno Peppers, (or Cayenne, or other)
- ¼ cup Shredded Carrot,
- 6 Cloves of Garlic, peeled and smashed
- 1 Roasted Red Pepper, chopped (I use the jarred ones)
- 1 cup White Vinegar
- ¼ cup Apple Cider Vinegar
- ½ cup Water
- 1 Tablespoon Smoked Sea Salt (or use regular or Kosher salt if that's all you have)
(4) 5oz Glass Hot Sauce Bottles (available on Amazon)
Optional Add-Ins
- 1 Tablespoon Smoked Paprika
- 2 Chipotle Chiles in Adobo
Green Hot Sauce
- 12-16 oz Green Chiles (Hatch, Jalapeño, etc)
- 8 Cloves of Garlic, peeled and smashed
- 1 Green Bell Pepper, chopped (roast it first for even more flavor!)
- 1 cup White Vinegar
- ¼ cup Apple Cider Vinegar
- ½ cup Water
- 1 Tablespoon Smoked Sea Salt, (or use regular or Kosher salt if that's all you have)
(4) 5-ounce Glass Hot Sauce Bottles (available on Amazon)
Instructions
- Cut the tops off of the peppers and discard. Chop the peppers in thirds. Add to the stainless steel inner liner of the Instant Pot.
- Add in the remaining ingredients.
- Close the lid of the pressure cooker and set the steam release knob to the Sealing position.
- Press Manual (or Pressure Cook function, High Pressure) and use the +/- button to select 2 minutes.
- When cooking cycle ends, LET IT FULLY NATURALLY RELEASE PRESSURE. Do not do a Quick Release or manually release the pressure. You don't want to inhale those pepper fumes!
- After all of the pressure is out of the pot, open the lid carefully, facing it away from your face. Don't breathe in the fumes!
- Let the mixture cool, then transfer it to a blender and blend until smooth. You can use an immersion blender (though I find the regular blender makes it smoother). Be very careful, and wear gloves and eye protection.
- Strain blended mixture through a strainer, and fill your hot sauce bottles! You could also leave unstrained and put in jars to enjoy a thicker hot sauce.
- The hot sauce gets better as it ages a bit. It will keep in the fridge for several weeks or more!
Notes
Hot sauce is fun and easy to make, but please take some simple precautions:
- Wear gloves (I use food service gloves) and eye protection (I wear my reading glasses) when handling and chopping the peppers.
- Clean your knife handle and cutting board well after chopping.
- Let the pressure cooker naturally release the pressure, don't do it manually as you don't want the fumes in the air that you might breathe. I learned that the hard way from cooking it on the stove top. Maybe open a window as well.
- Open the lid facing away from your face and do not inhale the steam/fumes as it wafts out of the pot! That would not be good.
Nutrition
Calories: 10kcal
