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    Home » Easy Vegan Recipes » Kitchen Staples

    How to make sriracha

    17 November, 2020 by Kip 2 Comments

    Today most Americans and Europeans seem to measure sriracha using Huy Fung brand as their benchmark. Made and sold by a Vietnamese-American genius named David Tran, this green-topped hot sauce has earned its place alongside the likes of ketchup as a condiment mainstay. Stylistically, however, it differs from Thai sriracha.

    The sriracha recipe at the end of this post is Thai, so if you’re looking to replicate the Huy Fung sauce my recipe won’t get you there. Thai sri racha is sweeter, less garlicky, more balanced in acidity, and thinner in consistency. Both are excellent. If you don’t feel like making my recipe, you can buy a bottle of Thai sriracha in order to appreciate the differences.

    Homemade Sriracha recipe

    Sriracha, pronounced see-raa-chaa in Thai, is the name of a seaside town in Chonburi province in Thailand. The most widely accepted narrative holds sriracha was originally produced by a woman from this town, named Thanom Chakkapak, as a sauce for seafood. There is no protected designation of origin quality scheme in place to protect the name, and so it has become genericised. Tran didn’t trademark the word in the US either. Consequently there are now many brands of sriracha on supermarket shelves.

    Sriracha is one of a thousand and one condiments in Thailand, used primarily as a dipping sauce but with uses in cooking as well. A common pairing is with kai jeow, a deep fried omelette (that is veganised in Thailand using yuba, or fong tauhu in Thai). You'll find it in some noodle dishes, such as in Thai suki sauce, and alongside rich grilled and fried foods. In your own practice use this sriracha recipe for whatever the hell you want, although I advise you avoid putting it in your eyes as I somehow manage to regularly do.

    Homemade Sriracha recipe
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    Thai Sriracha Hot Sauce (sot prik sriracha – ซอสพริกศรีราชา)

    In Thailand a type of chilli pepper called prik chi fa, or spur chillies, would be the go to for making sriracha, but you can use red jalapeños, serranos, Dutch chillies, or another long, fleshy, red pepper. In the UK, the easiest to find are Dutch chillies, which you will find in Asian markets (they're 4-6 inches long, not the tiny ones). You can also use orange or yellow long chillies. My version of this famous hot sauce contains jaggery, made from unrefined cane juice boiled down into solid blocks. Most recipes will include white sugar, which you can substitute if it's what you have to hand.
    Cuisine: Thai
    Servings: 300 millilitres

    Equipment

    • Blender
    • steamer

    Ingredients

    • 100 grams long red chillies
    • 30 grams peeled garlic cloves
    • 3 large coriander roots
    • 150 millilitres white vinegar
    • ¾ teaspoon salt
    • 55-65 grams shaved jaggery (cane sugar) (5-6 tablespoons)

    Instructions

    • Steam the peppers, garlic, and coriander root for 15 minutes over medium-high heat.
    • Blend with remaining ingredients in a high powered blender until smooth.
    • Pour into a small saucepan and simmer over low heat, stirring from time to time, for 15 minutes. Allow to cool and then jar and refrigerate.

    Notes

    If you don’t have a high powered vortex blender such as a Vitamix, use a mesh strainer and a silicone spatula to press the blended sauce through into the saucepan. Thai sriracha is smooth, but if you don't care about some chunks of seed or flesh then ignore all of of this and carry on.

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    Comments

    1. Veenas

      January 21, 2021 at 9:46 am

      5 stars
      Amazing Ingredients !!! The Name Sriracha is similar to tamil language. Nice Blog !! Thanks For Sharing !!! I'll Definitely Try it.

      Reply
      • Kip

        January 21, 2021 at 3:31 pm

        Thanks, Veenas!

        Reply
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