Homemade Hot Honey Recipe
A beekeeper's guide to homemade hot honey, made in 10 minutes with raw honey and dried chili peppers. Sweet, spicy, and endlessly versatile. Fully customizable heat level, shelf-stable for months, and far better than any bottle you can buy.
Ingredients
Instructions
Add 2 cups of honey and 8-10 chopped dried peppers and their seeds or 3-4 tablespoons of red pepper flakes to a small saucepan.
Heat the mixture on low until barely simmering. Do not allow the honey to boil.
Simmer for 5 minutes, stirring regularly, then sample the honey:Spicy enough: move to the next stepNot spicy enough: you can add a bit more peppers or pepper flakes and simmer for another 5 minutes before testing again.Too spicy: add a bit more honey to tone down the spice before moving to the next step.
Remove honey from heat and allow to cool slightly. Meanwhile, sanitize a storage jar by washing in hot soapy water, rinsing well and drying completely.
Using a fine mesh strainer, carefully strain the solids out of the warm honey. Cool, then cover before storing.
Nutrition
- Serving Size
- 1 tablespoon
- Calories
- 64 kcal
- Carbohydrate Content
- 17 g
- Protein Content
- 0.1 g
- Sodium Content
- 1 mg
- Fiber Content
- 0.04 g
- Sugar Content
- 17 g
