sriracha

It turns out that five ingredients really are all that are needed to make a flavorful, almost shockingly red sauce that stands up to the stuff in the bottle. Best of all, you can tweak the heat up or down with the selection of peppers.

Make - and can - your own sriracha rooster sauce. Addictive, easy, and a great way to use up a glut of chilies.

Easy homemade sriracha from a mixture of dried chiles, distilled vinegar and salt. 2 weeks of macerating and you'll have 4 1/2 pints of sriracha to wow your friends with.

At Park Slope's Talde, the sriracha powder is folded into a homemade ranch dressing to make sri-rancha. Try it at home folded into store-bought ranch dressing, sprinkled atop deviled eggs or stirred into soup.