Description
Skip the pricey stuff at the store and make your own hot honey with customizable heat and more flavor than anything you could buy. Drizzle it on breads, eat it on cheese, or use it in place of honey in recipes for a little bit of sweet BBQ flavor you’ll love.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 Guajillo chile
- 1 New Mexico hot chile or an Ancho chile
- 5 Piquin chiles (optional for a little bright heat)
- 1 Tablespoon smoked sweet paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon to 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/8 tsp up to 1/2 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
- 8 oz honey (227 g)
- 1 Tablespoon of your favorite hot sauce
Instructions
- Remove the stems and seeds from the guajillo and New Mexico chiles. You can leave in the seeds for a hotter sauce if you’d like.
- Grind the chiles in a small coffee grinder into a fine powder.
- Mix the ground chiles with the paprika, red pepper flakes, and cayenne pepper in a small skillet. Turn your exhaust fan on and avoid placing your face over the chiles (nobody likes getting the chile coughs!). Toast the chili powder in the skillet over medium heat for about a minute, stirring it frequently. This toasting will wake up the flavors in the chiles and add some more toasty flavor.
- Stir in the honey and simmer everything on low heat for about 2 minutes.
- Stir in the hot sauce, and they you can jar up your hot honey.
- Stored in a glass jar, you can keep hot honey basically indefinitely. If it crystallizes at all, just warm it gently and it’ll be good to go again.
Notes
Make it vegan: Honey is not vegan, but you can easily make your own hot honey alternative. Simply sub in maple syrup or a vegan honey in place of the honey in this recipe.
- Prep Time: 2 minutes
- Cook Time: 3 minutes
- Category: Baking building blocks
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
