How to Make Hot Honey Sauce

Video how to make hot honey sauce

Hot honey is the hottest new sauce for drizzling on everything from biscuits to pizza. Most hot honey recipes take hours: this one takes just 1 minute!

Move over, Sriracha: there’s a new cool condiment in town. It’s hot honey! And by hot, we’re not talking about temperature but spiciness. This spicy-sweet sticky sauce is used in trendy restaurants to drizzle over pizzas and serve with house-made biscuits. But why not make it at home? You can use it to dress up just about anything. Ready to see how it’s done?

What is hot honey?

Hot honey is spicy honey that’s served as a condiment with biscuits, cornbread, and pizza. It can be used to dress up just about anything. There are a few brands on the market, but you can also make it at home.

Most hot honey recipes require simmering honey for an hour or more with hot chili peppers. But we have a quick and easy method that takes just 1 minute. Yes, you heard it right – 1 minute! Keep reading for how to do it.

How to make hot honey (in 1 minute)

This quick hot honey recipe is ultra-easy to make. All you’ll need is honey and your favorite hot sauce. You can use any type of hot sauce: Mexican-style like Cholula brand, Tabasco, or even Sriracha. For ours, we used equal parts Cholula and Tabasco for a nuanced flavor.

Here’s how to make hot honey:

Combine ¼ cup honey and 2 teaspoons hot sauce of your choice. Microwave for 30 seconds, then stir.
Alternatively, heat on the stovetop in a small saucepan for a few minutes.

Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator. You can keep it for up to 3 months.

10 ways to use hot honey

There are so many ways to use this sweet and spicy drizzle! What doesn’t sound better with a “with Hot Honey” tacked onto the end? Homemade biscuits with hot honey. Roasted peaches with hot honey. It sounds so sophisticated, yet this recipe is so quick and easy it’s almost like cheating. Here are all of our favorite ways to eat it:

Drizzle over whipped feta dip and serve with pita triangles.
Serve with homemade biscuits, Dutch oven bread, or vegan cornbread, and salted butter.
Drizzle over pizza for a sweet and spicy kick. Try it with our homemade cheese pizza or mushroom pizza with fresh herbs.
Add it into a grilled cheese, like grilled cheese with tomato or pesto grilled cheese on the grill.
Drizzle over roasted smashed potatoes. Or french fries.
Serve with corn on the cob.
Bring out the sweetness in roasted vegetables.
Drizzle it over baked brie and serve with crackers.
Add a spicy hint to crostini or bruschetta, like cherry & goat cheese crostini or easy bruschetta with mushrooms.
Dress up fruit, like roasted peaches.

A note on local honey

If you can find local honey, use it in this homemade hot honey recipe! Local honey is incredibly tasty and supports local businesses. Also, since local honey contains a blend of local pollen, it can strengthen your immune system and reduce pollen allergy symptoms. We buy our local honey at our farmers market; often local honey vendors can be found in your local grocery stores as well.

Also, don’t forget to support your local pollinators! One of the best ways to help bees is to plant flowers. Bees love sunflowers and bolted herbs (herbs that have flowered) like basil and chives. Make sure your seeds are non-GMO and not treated with any pesticides or chemicals.

This hot honey recipe is…

Vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, and plant-based.

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