Fermented hot sauce is tasty and good for you
Every lover of spicy foods has a go-to favorite hot sauce. Maybe you have three or four that range in smokiness, spice-factor and tangy zing. A real enthusiast might have pastes, curries and mashed pepper condiments crowding their refrigerator. But did you know that fermented hot sauce offers a deeper, more complex and evolving flavor? Or that, because of the fermented peppers, it’s actually good for you? Grab your favorite dish and a jar of sauce to pour over it, and read on!
All out of hot sauce or ready to try something new? Check out the Hosta Hill Shop and try one of our delicious offerings. Hosta Hill is committed to producing high-quality, culture-rich hot sauce, packaged by hand and sold raw and unpasteurized.
Spice it up
Wondering what makes fermented hot sauce so special? Fermentation adds depth of flavor to the peppers, leading to a hot sauce with a more complex flavor that continues to develop over time. Its flavor is actually alive! This is no secret recipe. In fact, many of the big-name hot sauces, like Tobasco and Sriracha, are fermented.
But why go mainstream and mass-produced? You want to try fermented hot sauce from the fermentation experts. Hosta Hill’s Original Hot Sauce is made simply, from ripened jalapeños, garlic and sea salt. Fermented to perfection, the result is a beautiful extra-spicy red sauce that goes great on anything you want to kick up a notch!
Or try our Smokey Hot Sauce! Also made with organic jalapeños and sea salt, the garlic in this delicious sauce is smoked, creating a smokey flavor with notes of green chilis.
Fermented hot sauce has live cultures
Maybe “fermentation” sounds a little intimidating and bizarre. But actually, it’s a simple and straightforward process that has been practiced around the world for thousands of years. During fermentation, bacteria and other microorganisms convert the starches and sugars in veggies into lactic acid. That acid works as a natural preservative and gives the fermented vegetable its sour flavor.
In fact, fermentation goes beyond preservation to include some real health benefits. Munching delicious fermented foods like sauerkraut, kimchi, or fermented hot sauce, full of “good bacteria”, can bring the gut into balance.
Your body simply loves live cultures! They boost our gut health, improve digestion, reduce gas and discomfort, and may even help mood disorders.
Start dousing your favorite dishes in the food-medicine of fermented hot sauce from Hosta Hill!
Lacto-fermentation keeps your hot sauce flavors evolving
At Hosta Hill, the unique and creative flavors in our cultured vegetables develop slowly through wild fermentation, a natural preservation process that enhances the nutrient availability of the vegetables we work with. Our fermented vegetables are made the traditional way: no vinegar, just vegetables, sea salt, and time!
Lacto-fermentation is a slow and continually giving process. Your hot sauce flavor continues to evolve, becoming subtler, more complex and sometimes taking on an interesting new tanginess. You can read more about the food-science of Lacto-fermentation in this article from Serious Eats!
Now that you’ve read about fermented hot sauce, be sure to check out the offerings from Hosta Hill, a family-owned, women-run business based in beautiful Western Massachusetts. We are committed to producing high-quality, live-cultured Sauerkraut, Kimchi, and Hot Sauce, packaged by hand and sold raw and unpasteurized.