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Home » Sauces and Dips » Nasturtium Hot Sauce

Nasturtium Hot Sauce

Author: Karon Grieve Published : July 2014

Recipe
nasturtium hot sauce
This super tasty nasturtium hot sauce is super easy to make using these colourful garden flowers. It tastes a bit like Tabasco sauce and is so useful too.

Got nasturtiums growing in your garden? Like Tabasco sauce and other hot stuff? Put the two ideas together and you get this super tasty Nasturtium Hot Sauce. Who would think such a pretty flower packed such a punch of flavour.

nasturtium hot sauce in bottle on top of books with nasturtium flowers

My garden is full of flowers just now.  Not the upright-in-the-borders-carefully-cultivated kind of flowers that look so park like.

No, my flowers just grow where they like, spread all over the flag stones (in the case of the manic giant daisies that make hanging out the washing a feat of acrobatics to avoid squishing them) and overflow the somewhat neglected beds.

I like flowers just to be themselves and do their own thing. The nasturtiums just blaze with colour and creep out of their bed and meander over the flagstones to join the merry march with the daisies in making a floral take-over bid.

nasturtium flowers in jar with vinegar

Nasturtiums

They are in all shades of yellow and orange to deep rustic red. I love my nasturtiums, though I have to say, this wasn’t always the case.  Way back in the dim and distant past our neighbours had nasturtiums all along their garden fence.

A neat little row of them year after year.  We kids hated the smell of them. And when we found out that this was an edible flower used to goad each other into nibbling on the bitter leaves. Popping the seed pods at each other and generally spoiling our neighbours lovely flower bed.

Edible flowers

Roll on a good few decades and I find that I love the pungent, almost urgent scent of nasturtiums. I adore that earthy hot and savoury taste from the leaves and the more delicate taste of the flowers.

Oh and nowadays I don’t throw the seed pods at other people, instead I pickle them and use them just like capers.

close up of bottle of hot sauce with hand painted label

Nasturtium Hot Sauce

One of the ways that I like to use my nasturtiums instead of just scattering the lovely flowers and fresh leaves in a colourful salad, is to make this super easy hot sauce.

It is fiery stuff and makes a great alternative to store bought sauce like Tabasco.

Making any sort of preserve (be it pickles, vinegars, sauces or jams and chutneys etc) is a great way to hold on to the essence of summer when the days start to get dark and stormy.

I love this hot sauce as it is bright and colourful and so very spicy, it makes me see those beautiful colourful nasturtium flowers with every taste.

ingredients for hot sauce

Ingredients for nasturtium hot sauce

  • You will need approximately 1 cup of closely packed nasturtium flowers. It is always best to pick flowers at herbs in the morning after the dew has dried off their leaves and petals but before the sun is high in the sky (noon) when the plants are too dry.
  • 1 clove of garlic.
  • 1 tiny red chilli pepper.
  • 2 cups/500ml of apple cider vinegar.

The only equipment you need here is a jar large enough to hold all your ingredients. Please sterilise it first, see instructions on my sterilising resources page, and some small sterilised bottles to store the resulting hot sauce in.

petals in bottle

How to make nasturtium hot sauce

  • Remove any dust and particles from the flowers and carefully pat dry.
  • Pack the flowers into your jar .
  • Peel and chop the clove of garlic and add this to the jar.
  • Split the little chilli and add this to the jar.
  • Now pour in the apple cider vinegar.
  • Pop the lid on the jar and give it a good shake.
  • Store in a cool dark cupboard for 1 week remembering to shake it every day.
  • After a week the flowers will have coloured the vinegar the most gorgeously vibrant colour. It will depend on the colour of the flowers what colour of vinegar you get, yellow flowers give a golden hue while the deep red beauties will create a really rich almost burgundy colour.
  • Strain your vinegar through a sieve lined with kitchen paper or muslin and decant into smaller bottles.

nasturtium hot sauce by larderlove

How long will this keep?

Your hot sauce will keep for up to 6 months in a cool dark cupboard.

How to serve this hot sauce

Enjoy it just as you would any other hot sauce. Liven up salads, sandwiches and soups with it. Use it in your cooking just like Tabasco. And remember the garden and summer sunshine every time you use it.

finished bottle of sauce
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Looking for more fun ways to use nasturtiums in the kitchen? Then check out these recipes before you go;

Nasturtium Pesto

Nasturtium Soup

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Nasturtium Hot Sauce

Karon Grieve
A super easy homemade version of Tabasco sauce but made from nasturtium flowers from your garden!
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 10 mins
Total Time 10 mins
Course sauces
Cuisine British
Calories 132 kcal

Ingredients
 

  • 1 cup nasturtium flowers closely packed in cup
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 chilli small red chilli pepper
  • 500ml apple cider vinegar 2 cups

Instructions
 

  • Clean off the flowers and pack into a sterilised jar.
  • Peel the garlic, slice and add to the jar.
  • Slit the chilli in half and add to the jar.
  • Fill jar with the apple cider vinegar.
  • Pop on the lid and shake well.
  • Store in a cool dark place for 1 week and then strain through a sieve lined with kitchen paper or muslin and decant into small sterilised bottles.
  • Store in a cool dark place and use within 6 months.

Notes

Use this nasturtium hot sauce just like any hot sauce, Tabasco etc

Nutrition

Calories: 132kcalCarbohydrates: 11gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 31mgPotassium: 579mgFiber: 1gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 1071IUVitamin C: 75mgCalcium: 60mgIron: 2mg
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Keyword hot sauce, nasturtium flowers
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Comments

  1. caribougrrl says

    August 9, 2014 at 1:52 pm

    pinning this and keeping my fingers crossed for a bumper nasturtium crop (ours are just starting to flower now)

    Reply
    • Karon says

      August 19, 2014 at 8:40 am

      hope you make some, it is great stuff.
      K x

      Reply
  2. Kayla says

    August 19, 2014 at 12:26 am

    Just mixed this up with my coral & deep red nasturtiums. Very excited for the week to be over so I can give this a try!

    Reply
    • Karon says

      August 19, 2014 at 8:39 am

      It should be a beautifully deep colour, let me know how it goes.
      K x

      Reply
  3. Annie says

    October 4, 2014 at 7:47 pm

    Thank you! I need to clear some beds that are really beautiful with nasturtium flowers, and this concoction seems like a great consolation.

    Reply
    • Karon Grieve says

      October 8, 2014 at 12:01 pm

      Hi Annie
      Always seem such a shame when you have to clear the beds of lovely flowers. At least this way you will get to enjoy them again later in another tasty way.
      Kx

      Reply
  4. Sonia says

    July 3, 2020 at 6:38 pm

    Can you send me a link to purchase the bottles that you used? Or a suggestion of where to get them?

    Reply
    • Karon Grieve says

      July 6, 2020 at 9:13 am

      Hi Sonia
      I must have bought those little bottles about ten years ago. Probably from ebay
      K

      Reply
  5. MJ says

    December 16, 2021 at 11:31 am

    5 stars
    I was skeptical. This is THE most fabulous hot sauce that I have come across. I use it daily for just about EVERYTHING…from wing sauce to creamed soups. The floral notes offer a reminder of sunshiny days, with the beautiful, colours of flowers in full bloom. When given as gifts, folks are astounded at the “use of flowers!” and the beautiful hues. Thank you!

    Reply
    • Karon Grieve says

      December 17, 2021 at 8:31 am

      Hi MJ
      So thrilled that you like my nasturtium hot sauce recipe so much. I make this every year and always give it as gifts too. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
      K

      Reply

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