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Mr. Smoky's Chipotle-Mustard Hot Sauce Recipe

An easy hot sauce recipe that gets deep, smoky flavors from guajillo chiles, mustard seeds, and chipotles in adobo sauce.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Mr. Smoky's Chipotle-Mustard Hot Sauce Recipe

Why it works: Lemon and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,289 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Mr. Smoky's Chipotle-Mustard Hot Sauce Recipe

About 1 quart
Cook24 hr 50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

246Calories
2 gProtein
14 gFat
32 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Seednot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Mustard + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Lime + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together392 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Olive + mustardtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, lime, sauce, olive, mustard, sugar):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Kalefits better
  3. Broccolifits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, lime, sauce, olive, mustard, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.