El Yucateco Chile Habanero is a brand of hot sauce made from habanero peppers. Hot sauce, chili sauce, or pepper sauce refer to any spicy Sauce made from Chili peppers and other ingredients The habanero chile ( Capsicum chinense Jacquin (sometimes incorrectly spelled "habañero" is one of the most intensely spicy species of Chili peppers Unlike other hot sauces such as tabasco sauce, El Yucateco hot sauce uses habanero rather than vinegar as its base. Tabasco sauce is a brand of Hot sauce made from Tabasco peppers ( Capsicum frutescens var El Yucateco Red and Green sauces use artificial coloring producing vibrant colors. Unlike most American sauces, the green sauce is much hotter than the red sauce. The Kutbil-Ik sauce is a natural brown color.
Varieties
- Habanero Red
- Habanero Green
- Caribbean Habanero
- Kutbil-Ik Habanero Extra Hot sauce (Original Mayan Recipe)
Heat
According to the El Yucateco website, the Habanero Extra hot sauce is rated at 11,600 Scoville units. The Red habanero hot sauce is rated at 5,790 Scoville units, while the Green habanero hot sauce is rated at 9,000 Scoville units.