Southern Pepper Sauce Recipe

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.

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.

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

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Southern Pepper Sauce Recipe

Robyn Stone

4.86 from 21 votes

This pepper sauce recipe is a Southern family favorite. Perfect to serve with cornbread, greens or peas, this pepper sauce recipe is one you’ll turn to again and again.

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 32 tablespoons

Ingredients 

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• ▢ 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

Makes 1 pint.

Nutrition

Serving: 1 tablespoon | Calories: 21kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 0.3g | Saturated Fat: 0.02g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 77mg | Potassium: 136mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 0.4mg

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

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Enjoy!
Robyn xo