Hot Honey Recipe

Hot honey is honey that has been infused with red pepper flakes. It has a unconfined spicy heat that pairs so well with the sweetness. Made with just 3 ingredients, its incredibly easy to make. Besides stuff simple to make, if youre making homemade hot honey, youre worldly-wise to retread the spiciness to your liking.

Drizzle it on pizza, salads, tacos or biscuits, drench your yellow with it, or plane add it to your tea. My favorite way to enjoy it you can make succulent dips with it, like the one Ill be sharing next week!  

How To Make It:

Making hot honey couldnt be easier. You add your ingredients to a saucepan, heat it up, and let it cool. You can leave in the red pepper flakes to protract to let them infuse the honey (making it spicier), or strain them out. The recipe unelevated is a small batch, but you can hands double it if youre going to be eating a lot of it!

What Youll Need:

• honey
• crushed red pepper flakes
• apple cider vinegar the world cider vinegar is not necessary, it adds a bit of tanginess to the honey. You could do a couple of dashes of hot sauce instead of (or in wing to) the vinegar.  
• saucepan
• storage jar for honey
• small mesh sieve

See the full recipe below!

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Hot Honey

Hot honey is honey infused with red pepper flakes and is the perfect tousle of spicy & sweet!

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup honey
• 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar (optional)*

Instructions

• Stir together honey and red pepper flakes in a small saucepan over medium heat.
• Heat to just a simmer, stirring occasionally. Make sure it doesnt swash at all.
• Remove honey mixture from heat and stir in vinegar. Cool.
• You can leave in the red pepper flakes or strain them out. Leaving the red pepper flakes in will make the honey spicier over time.

Notes

*the world cider vinegar is not necessary, it adds a bit of tanginess to the honey. You could do a couple of dashes of hot sauce instead of (or in wing to) the vinegar.  

Be sure to stay tuned for a succulent titbit featuring hot honey next week! For increasingly succulent recipes, be sure to trammels out these posts!

-Manda

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