We've picked out our favorite peppers for hot sauce that you can grow in your garden to make hot sauce! Find our favorite hot sauce recipes and make them your own with any of these hot peppers. You can use any hot pepper or combination of peppers to make hot sauce, so don't feel limited, experiment! The sky's the limit. You'll find that some you love some peppers even more than others, but it's fun to try them all. Hot sauce captures the essence of the flavor of hot peppers and lets you taste their wide range of fruity and complex flavors all in a precious drop!
Carolina Reaper
We'll kick things off with the hottest pepper you can grow in your garden! This super hot makes some killer Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce!
Tombstone Ghost Pepper
The Tombstone Ghost Pepper is wickedly hot and makes some mouthwatering, deliciously SPICY Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce! With a Scoville Heat Unit rating of 1,000,000+, this pepper isn’t just hot-it’s hauntingly hot.
Orange Habanero
Our favorite, Habaneros have a tropical fruity hot heat that is hard to match! They make our favorite kind of hot sauce, Habanero Hot Sauce! The flavor is so delicious that you're tastebuds will keep asking for more even if you're sweating profusely! Not as hot as the first two hot peppers we mention above, but the flavor is TOP NOTCH!! All Habaneros make great hot sauce, so be sure to grow all the varieties! We like to combine habaneros with roasted carrots which seem to be the perfect pairing for hot sauce!
Scotch Bonnet
Scotch Bonnets bring a vibrant heat and citrusy sweetness of Jamaica to your garden and hot sauces!
Also be sure to grow our Orange Scotch Bonnet which makes awesome hot sauce as well. You can use these to make any of our hot sauce recipes.
Jalapenos
We have not just one variety of Jalapeno, but eleven varieties! Grow them all and experience their wide range of colors and heat levels! You can pick them green and make a green jalapeno hot sauce, or let them ripen to their mature color for even more flavor and sweetness. Try our Roasted Jalapeno Hot Sauce Recipe for a heavenly hot sauce that goes great with everything!
Hatch Chiles
Hot Hatch chiles also make a killer green hot sauce! These are great as they grow quickly so you can make hot sauce sooner in the summer!
Tabasco Peppers
We all know the classic Tabasco hot sauce that has been an American (and world) staple for many years. You can grow your own Tabasco peppers and make your own hot sauce! Try making them with one of our Fermented Hot Sauces for the complex probiotic flavors!
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We have over 100 peppers of the world that you can use in hot sauces.
You can even mix sweet peppers in with hot peppers or mild peppers for more complex flavor or milder sauces. For example, try the Habanada which has all the tropical fruity flavor of Habaneros without the heat.
Our favorite pepper for hot sauce is Habaneros!
Try our Habanero Hot Sauce Recipe!
Be sure to check out our Seed Catalog which features some hot sauce recipes!
