El Yucateco Chile Habanero
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El Yucateco Chile Habanero is a brand of hot sauce
Hot sauce
Hot sauce, chili sauce or pepper sauce refers to any spicy sauce made from chili peppers and other ingredients.-Ingredients:There are many recipes for hot sauces - the common ingredient being any kind of peppers. A group of chemicals called capsaicinoids are responsible for the heat in chili peppers...

 made from habanero peppers. Unlike many other hot sauces such as tabasco sauce
Tabasco sauce
Tabasco sauce is the brand name for a hot sauce produced by US-based McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana. Tabasco sauce is made from tabasco peppers , vinegar, and salt, and aged in white oak barrels for three years. It has a hot, spicy flavor...

, El Yucateco hot sauce does not use vinegar as a base for the peppers. 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
    Maya peoples
    The Maya people constitute a diverse range of the Native American people of southern Mexico and northern Central America. The overarching term "Maya" is a collective designation to include the peoples of the region who share some degree of cultural and linguistic heritage; however, the term...

     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.

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