Sweet but Spicy BBQ sauce - Pepper recommendations.

Unknown

looking to make my own bbq sauce. Looking to do a sweet bbq sauce that will also have a nice hot/spicy bite as well. My boss lives in the Bahamas and we were talking about some type of Mango flavored sauce but were trying to figure out what type of pepper might go best to give it a bite. Any suggestions? [p]Thx in advance.

BENTE

WVU_Egg,
i would use some cyanne but if you are still in the eggsperminting stage you have got to try the link below. i only have this at my house and all enjoy.
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[ul][li]wild boar BBQ sauce[/ul]

gdenby

WVU_Egg,[p]I've had some sauces that were basically sweet, but had some with lightly crushed papper seeds mixed in, so that the sauce was only hot when you bit into the seed piece, and the heat "popped" on the tongue. Some pizza seasoning pepper seeds are fairly mild, although some are just cayenne, and pretty hot.[p]gdenby

BlueSmoke

WVU_Egg,
I'd stick with "an island thing" - use habanero/scotch bonnet peppers. Careful, though, a very little goes a real long way.[p]Apart from that, a lot depends on what else you want from the pepper. Cayennes will give you a straightforward, middle of the tongue heat, jalapenos heat more towards the back of the tongue, serranos start on the tongue and include the back of the throat... Depending on where you're going with the sauce, I can also see using crushed dried poblanos, or crushed dried chipotles.[p]Some fella quoted in Joy of Cooking said "the kitchen is the one country where there are always new discoveries to be made".[p]Good luck,
Ken

Unknown

BlueSmoke,
He wants me to try scotch bonnett since they use them a lot in the Bahamas and call them Goat Peppers. So I think I'm going to try that since he has been feeding his workers who are building his house. He's been fixing them a lot of pulled pork and we thought a mango bbq sauce with just a tad of goat peppers will go well. [p]I agree, a little will go a LONG way if I use those.[p]So I might as well start testing.

Davekatz

WVU_Egg,[p]We were recently in Belize and they use habanero peppers in everything. Try Marie Sharps bottled hot sauce. It's habanero-based, but has lots of other ingredients to give it good depth as well.[p]Dave