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Southern Pepper Sauce Recipe

Robyn Stone

Updated Jul 23, 2024

This pepper sauce recipe is a Southern family favorite. Perfect for serving with cornbread , greens , or black eyed peas , this Southern Pepper Sauce is one you’ll turn to again and again.

Canning jars of Southern Pepper Sauce with green and red peppers. - 1

Pepper Sauce is a favorite condiment for serving with any number of dishes in the south. It’s delicious with foods like black-eyed peas, pinto beans , collard greens , or turnip greens. Many even like a bit of it with their BBQ. A jar of this spicy sauce can just about always be found on the supper table, making it a staple item to make each year.

At the end of each summer, Daddy would gather peppers from his garden to make a good number of jars to use, keep in the pantry, and share with friends.

Glass jars hold pepper sauce with colorful peppers inside. - 2

Here’s our family pepper sauce recipe. This recipe is for a one-pint jar.

Ingredients

  • ▢ 1 cup distilled white vinegar
  • ▢ 1 tablespoon sugar
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon kosher salt , or pickling salt
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon olive oil , optional for extra hot pepper sauce
  • ▢ about 30 small peppers

Instructions

  • Clean jar, lid, and band and rinse well. Keep warm.
  • Mix together sugar, salt, vinegar, and optional olive oil in a stainless steel saucepan.
  • Cook over medium heat until it begins to boil.
  • Fill jar with peppers and pour hot vinegar mixture over the peppers. Leave about 1 inch of headspace from the top of the jar
  • Remove air bubbles in the jar by tilting jar slightly to allow bubbles to escape as press peppers against opposite side of the jar.
  • Wipe jar rim to clean. Place lid on top of jar and tighten ring.
  • Allow jars to seal by setting on countertop to cool with about 1 inch in between each.
  • Test seal after about 12 hours by pressing finger to the center of the lid. If sealed, it will not pop back. If not sealed, refrigerate and use.
  • Store in dark, cool cabinet or pantry for up to a year.

Notes

Nutrition

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Southern Pepper Sauce Recipe - 3

Southern Pepper Sauce Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 cup distilled white vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt or pickling salt
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil optional for extra hot pepper sauce
  • about 30 small peppers

Instructions

  • Clean jar, lid, and band and rinse well. Keep warm.
  • Mix together sugar, salt, vinegar, and optional olive oil in a stainless steel saucepan.
  • Cook over medium heat until it begins to boil.
  • Fill jar with peppers and pour hot vinegar mixture over the peppers. Leave about 1 inch of headspace from the top of the jar
  • Remove air bubbles in the jar by tilting jar slightly to allow bubbles to escape as press peppers against opposite side of the jar.
  • Wipe jar rim to clean. Place lid on top of jar and tighten ring.
  • Allow jars to seal by setting on countertop to cool with about 1 inch in between each.
  • Test seal after about 12 hours by pressing finger to the center of the lid. If sealed, it will not pop back. If not sealed, refrigerate and use.
  • Store in dark, cool cabinet or pantry for up to a year.

Notes

Nutrition

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