Pairings/Recipes

The first viewers choice award winner in 2026 is our famous Margarita Jalapeno! With all of the fixings of a spicy margarita (and a little extra Carolina Reaper heat) you've got the perfect sauce for one of those spicy beverages. The good news is that the sauce is also perfect to compliment other fan favorites. The one we're highlighting this quarter is Margarita Jalapeno Enchiladas. This recipe uses the sauce as a perfect compliment to the more traditional Tex-Mex dish, and you're going to love it! 

Margarita Jalapeno Enchiladas: 

Ingredients for the filling:

2 lb shredded chicken (or beef if preferred...which I prefer)
1.5 cups Monterey Jack cheese (or a Mexican 4 cheese blend)
1/4 cup sour cream
2 tbsp Margarita Jalapeno sauce
Lime Zest
Chopped cilantro
Salt and Pepper to taste 

Ingredients for the sauce:

1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp flour
1 1/2 cups chicken broth
1/2 cup salsa verde
1/2 cup Margarita Jalapeno sauce
1 tbsp lime juice
1/4 cup heavy cream
Salt

Instructions:

1. Heat butter in pan over medium heat
2. Whisk in flour and cook for one minute
3. Slowly whisk in broth
4. Stir in salsa and hot sauce
5. Simmer until thickened
6. Add lime juice and cream

The Poblano Jalapeno may be the mildest sauce that we make at Tennessee Hot Sauce Co., but it's still packed full of flavor. Here is a recipe from The Food Lab at Serious Eats. In this recipe, include 1/2 cup of the sauce in the marinade and you will not regret it!!

Flank Steak Fajitas

Other Poblano Jalapeno pairings:

Tacos

Burritos

Enchiladas

Tortilla Chips
(Getting the idea yet?)
There are other foods of course, like eggs that are also a wonderful hot sauce vessel

 

 

Pineapple Habanero is the newest sauce in the standard lineup. It was introduced after it was such a successful seasonal flavor. It combines the wonderful medium heat of habanero peppers with charred pineapple and cinnamon to give it such a beautiful balance of flavor, body, and heat. The biggest game changer with the Pineapple Habanero sauce was in chicken and waffles. Here is an amazing recipe of chicken and waffles. To modify it, we include about 1/3 of a bottle of Pineapple Habanero hot sauce with the buttermilk marinade and allow it to sit overnight and up to 24 hours, and also use it as a topping afterwards:

 

Other Pineapple Habanero pairings:

Pizza! (This is Amy's favorite pizza sauce, she would eat the whole bottle if you let her)

Tacos, particularly seafood like fish or shrimp

Grilled meats (it makes an excellent basting sauce while you're cooking)

Garlic Habanero

 

The Garlic Habanero is packed with garlic (it better be if you're going to name the sauce after it...), and pairs perfectly well with the slight sweetness of the carrots and the habanero peppers. A wonderful recipe that we've found to use the garlic habanero is a creamy mushroom risotto. It's packed with flavor and the garlic and the heat are the perfect compliment

Pressure Cooker Mushroom Risotto

Other Garlic Habanero Pairings:

EVERYTHING!

But other than everything:
Pasta dishes

Pizza

Eggs

 

 

Honey Habanero is sweet and spicy, just like you! As such, it's good to pair with some sweet and savory dishes. A perfect example of this is chicken wings. You get some sweetness, and then BAM, there's the habanero heat that we all know and love. 

 

Grilled chicken

Fish dishes

Curries

Fish or shrimp tacos

Stir Fry

 

 

Blood Orange Ghost is the meatiest sauce in the normal lineup, and as such we tend to pair it up with heavier dishes. One of which is beef stew. Below is a very good, very flavorful beef stew that the Blood Orange goes with perfectly.

 

All American Beef Stew

Pork loin

Gumbo (yum!)

Pulled pork sandwiches

Chili