Hot Honey

Make your own homemade Hot Honey with our easy recipe. Peppers simmer with honey for the perfect combination of sweet with a kick of heat.

Hot Honey

Have you heard about the new honey craze? Let me tell you about it. Hot honey combines the spice of peppers with the sweetness of honey by simmering them together.

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Now you can just go out and buy hot honey but that’s no fun, especially when it’s so easy to make your own. And it literally takes just minutes to make a homemade hot honey.

By choosing peppers with different heat levels you can personalize your hot honey and make it as spicy as you want. Add as many or as little as you want to control the heat.

For our Hot Honey recipe, I used a combination of peppers including crushed red pepper flakes, for a kick of flavor.

You can use just jalapenos, jalapenos with red pepper flakes, or an assortment of peppers and flakes as I did.

You can even add a touch of sriracha sauce and make it a honey sriracha sauce and drizzle on your favorite foods, such as chicken wings, biscuits and fried chicken. The choice is yours.

Love that extra kick of heat? Be sure to use the seeds in your spicy honey too!

So fill your honey jar with this trendy pepper infused honey. You’ll be so happy you did!

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How to make hot honey

Scroll down for the full recipe instructions and ingredient amounts in the recipe card below

1. Chop peppers
2. Combine peppers, red pepper flakes and honey in a small saucepot
3. Simmer for 5 minutes
4. Strain and cool

Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips

• Use just one type of pepper or a combination of peppers
• Add the seeds for an extra kick of heat
• Cool and then strain for extra heat

How to use hot honey

• Drizzle over fried chicken
• Use as a hot honey wing sauce and toss with chicken wings
• Add to your cup of tea
• Drizzle over biscuits
• Drizzle over pizza, especially pepperoni pizza!
• Use as the sweetener and flavoring in a vinaigrette

Equipment

• saucepot
• strainer
• mason jar

Ingredients you will need to make this spicy honey sauce

• Honey
• Peppers
• Red pepper flakes

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Hot Honey

Make your own Hot Honey at home with our easy recipe. Peppers simmer with honey for the perfect combination of sweet with a kick of heat.

Course Condiment

Cuisine American

Keyword hot honey recipe, how to make hot honey, spicy honey

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes minutes

Cooling Time 30 minutes minutes

Total Time 45 minutes minutes

Servings 16

Calories 65kcal

Author Gwynn Galvin

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Equipment

• small saucepot
• strainer
• mason jars

Ingredients

• 1 cup pasteurized honey
• Assorted peppers chopped and sliced
• 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes

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Instructions

• Combine honey, peppers and red pepper flakes in saucepot.
• Bring mixture to a simmer over medium heat. Simmer 5 minutes.
• Strain and cool.
• Cover and refrigerate.

Notes

Makes 1 cup/16 servings

1 Tablespoon per serving

Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips

• Use just one type of pepper or a combination of peppers
• Add the seeds for an extra kick of heat
• Cool and then strain for extra heat

How to use hot honey

• Drizzle over fried chicken
• Toss chicken wings in hot honey
• Add to your cup of tea
• Drizzle over biscuits
• Drizzle over pizza, especially pepperoni pizza!
• Use as the sweetener and flavoring in a vinaigrette

 

Nutrition

Calories: 65kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 3mg | Potassium: 13mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 37IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 1mg | Iron: 1mg