Making hot sauce at home is easier than you may think, and can be done with only a handful of ingredients. At its simplest, you need peppers, flavorings like garlic and onion, and vinegar.
Add the peppers, garlic, and basil to a food processor. While mixing, or between bursts of mixing, add the vinegar. Once again, BEWARE OF FUMES! This can spray up as you are mixing, so stand back ...
“This hot sauce is king in my family ... onion, and Sichuan pepper simmered in canola oil and balanced with black vinegar and rice vinegar. This one is fairly mild, and, as cookbook author ...