Name: Aged Sriracha Hot Sauce Recipe
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 2 cups
Ingredients: 2 pounds Fresno chiles (or other red chilies); 9 cloves garlic; 2 teaspoons kosher salt (or 1 tsp regular table salt); 6 tablespoons distilled white vinegar

Aged Sriracha Hot Sauce Recipe

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By steamykitchen · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients

Why it works: Clove and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,368 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Aged Sriracha Hot Sauce Recipe

2 cups

Cook15 min

Ingredients

2 pounds Fresno chiles (or other red chilies)
9 cloves garlic
2 teaspoons kosher salt (or 1 tsp regular table salt)
6 tablespoons distilled white vinegar

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

7Calories

0 gProtein

0 gFat

1 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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

By steamykitchen. 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.

Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,368 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Garlic + vinegartop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,115 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Clove + vinegartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,386 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, vinegar):

Tarragonfits better
Cuminfits better
Corianderfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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