Learn how to make the best homemade hot honey with just honey and chilli flakes! This easy 2 ingredient recipe is ready in under 5 minutes and is perfect drizzled over pizza, fried chicken, sandwiches, seafood, cheese boards and even ice cream. I'll also show you how to adjust the heat level and make a raw hot honey version too! If you love a good drizzle, browse more sauce recipes too.
About This Hot Honey Recipe
Hot Honey is one of the most versatile condiments that really makes food sing. This spicy honey uses just 2 ingredients: chilli flakes and honey, cooked on a low heat. I'll show you how to make an easy hot honey in less than 5 minutes!
Hot honey is fantastic with chicken tenders, fried chicken, pizza (especially pepperoni pizza), grilled seafood, sandwiches (hot honey and mortadella is a great combo!), halloumi or even on cheese boards. Also try it over ice cream!
Why This Recipe Works and Why You'll Love It
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There's no need to buy hot honey, you probably have all the ingredients to make it from scratch yourself at home!
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This hot honey has just 2 ingredients: chilli flakes and honey. It doesn't get easier than that!
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Your hot honey can be made to mild, medium or hot! I'll show you how to adjust it to your spice tolerance and which chilli flakes to buy.
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I'll show you how to avoid food poisoning aka botulism which can happen with honey and some chillies!
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In this recipe I'll also show you a cooked and uncooked version of hot honey (if you want to keep the properties of raw honey).
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I'll explain how to use different types of chilli (flakes, powder, hot sauce).
Video How To Make Hot Honey
Video: Hot Honey Recipe
Ingredients For Hot Honey
Honey - just a regular runny honey will do! If you go for a locally grown honey you may get some health benefits from that as it tends to be less heat treated and contains trace amounts of local pollen which some think acts like a natural allergy vaccine.
Chilli flakes - Choose mild or hot chilli flakes depending on your taste. Some mild chilli flakes are: Aleppo (Pul Biber), Ancho, Gochugaru (Korean Chilli Flakes) or Urfa Biber. Hot ones are usually labelled so or you can go for Calabrian chilli flakes and I would suggest avoiding ghost pepper or extremely hot chilli flakes. I've had hot honey using those and it is very unpleasant.
Tips For Making Hot Honey
1 - Can I use fresh chillies in hot honey? Yes, you can also use fresh chilli for hot honey but you need to consume all of the hot honey within a couple of weeks and keep it in the fridge. Fresh chillies add moisture to the hot honey which can lead to bacterial growth and botulism.
2 - Can I use chilli powder in hot honey? Yes but since you will not be sieving the chilli powder out of the honey, start with 1/2 teaspoon of chilli powder and taste the honey for spiciness adding more if desired.
3 - Can I use hot sauce in hot honey? Yes! Use 1-3 teaspoons of hot sauce stirred into the honey.
4 - Do not let the honey boil or it will become too thick to drizzle and will affect the flavour. You want just the honey to be warmed up gently.
5 - Do I need to heat the honey if I want to use raw honey? I get it, sometimes you want to keep your raw honey raw because of the health benefits! And that's no problem, using chilli powder or hot sauce is your best bet for raw honey as chilli flakes won't impart enough heat without being heated. If using chilli powder start off with 1/2 teaspoon and then taste it for heat level. If using hot sauce, stir in 1-3 teaspoons depending on taste.
OK now onto the hot honey recipe!
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