Delicious African Pepper Sauces
Explore and enjoy West African hot pepper sauces culinary delights! Experience the bold robust flavor of African cuisine.
Mission & Vision
West African Peppers Sauces.com
The West African Pepper Sauces.com is a marketplace website that is dedicated to discovering the rich heritage of Africa’s western coastal line countries endeavors to make delicious spicy hot pepper sauces, and sharing their culinary delights the world. Our mission is to provide a one stop shop marketplace website for hot pepper growers, hot sauce home chefs and manufacturers, retail stores, on-line stores, and pepper lovers to find a wide variety of their favorite hot pepper sauces around the world. We are just a website that seeks to fuse the taste of West African homeland taste of their regional sauces, and to share it with the world seeking to discovery the wonders of West African cuisines.
West African Pepper Sauces Brands
West African Pepper Sauces mission is to serve as a gateway to find and channel reputable hot pepper sauce brands to consumers in United States and abroad.
West African Pepper Sauces - Hot Pepper Brands
Scoville
Scoville
Scoville
Mild, Medium, Hot, or Scorching-Hot. - You get the picture. Hot peppers world wide are incredibly complex in spiciness. There are multiple varieties that come in unique shapes, flavors, and, of course, heat. It’s our goal to help you traverse this wide world of spiciness, and it all starts with the Scoville scale through which the heat is measured. Our hot pepper list brings that famous pepper scale to life in many ways.
Liberia
Scoville
Scoville
Liberian Pepper Sauce
Liberia is famously known for it’s hot and spicy pepper sauce cuisine. It’s one of the most secret ingredient is Liberian family heritage recipe for seasoning traditional hot pepper sauces dishes.
Ghana
Ghana
Ghana
Divine Kitchen Shitto
In Maryland, Kensington, Divine Pepper Sauce is commercially made and sold in area African Grocery Stores in Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, and shipped across the United States.
Ghana
Ghana
Ghana
May’s Pepper Sauces
In Maryland, Takoma Park, May’s Pepper Sauce is commercially made and sold in area African Grocery Stores in Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, and shipped across the United States.
List of Top 20 Hottest Peppers
Popular Hot Papper
Mild, Medium, Hot, or Scorching-Hot.
Hot peppers world wide are incredibly complex in spiciness. There are multiple varieties that come in unique shapes, flavors, and, of course, heat. It’s our goal to help you traverse this wide world of spiciness, and it all starts with the Scoville scale through which the heat is measured. Our hot pepper list brings that famous pepper scale to life in many ways.
West African Peppers
These peppers are used to flavor many different dishes and cuisines worldwide and are often used in hot sauces and condiments.
Ghana Pepper Sauces
Shito is the word for pepper in Ga, a Ghanaian language from Accra, the Ghanaian capital. Whilst the word for pepper is different for each of the Ghanaian native languages, shitor din (black pepper), commonly called 'shito', is widely used as the name for the hot black pepper sauce ubiquitous in Ghanaian cuisine.
Habanero Pepper
The habanero is a hot variety of chili pepper. Unripe habaneros are green, and they color as they mature. The most common color variants are orange and red, but the fruit may also be white, brown, yellow, green, or purple. Typically, a ripe habanero is 2–6 cm long.
Scotch Bonnet Peppers
Scotch bonnet, also known as bonney peppers, or Caribbean red peppers, is a variety of chili pepper named for its resemblance to a tam o' shanter hat. It is ubiquitous in West Africa. Most Scotch bonnets have a heat rating of 100,000–350,000 Scoville units Fresh, ripe Scotch bonnets can change from green to yellow to scarlet red; some varieties of this pepper can ripen to orange, yellow, peach, or even a chocolate brown.
Cayenne Peppers
Cayenne is a moderately hot chili pepper used to flavor dishes. Cayenne peppers, generally skinny, mostly red-colored peppers, often with a curved tip and somewhat rippled skin, which hang from the bush as opposed to growing upright. Most varieties are generally rated at 30,000 to 50,000 Scoville units. The fruits are generally dried and ground to make the powdered spice of the same name.
Habanero & Scott Bonnet Peppers
Habanero
Habanero is one of the most popular hot pepper used to tasty West African Pepper Sauces
Scott Bonnet
Scott Bonnet is one of the most popular hot pepper used to tasty West African Pepper Sauces
Buy Hot Pepper By Bulk
Pepper Boxes
Looking to buy hot pepper by the bulk for your pepper sauce making business? Here are a few major suppliers of whole sale hot pepper in the Washington Metro Area. Check out our local international grocery g store directory!
West African Restaurants
West African Restaurants
In the Washington DC area, there are a lots of West African restaurants, carry outs , and catering.
Bukom Cafe
A longtime spot (since 1992) offering West African fare & live music in a casual, bi-level setting. Address: 2442 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20009 Phone: (202) 265-4600
Zion West African Restaurant
Laid-back destination with a menu of regional West African specialties & a full bar. Address: 1805 Montana Ave NE B, Washington, DC 20002 Phone: (202) 636-9097
Safari DC
Safari DC is a distinct venue in the heart of Washington, DC that provides a cultural journey of Africa and the diaspora through Art, Food, Fashion & Music. Address: 4306 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20011 Phone: (202) 722-7300
Social Media- Pepper Sauce Chefs
Social Media - Websites for West African Chefs
The internet has giving rise to a lot of Social Media West African cuisine chefs, many that are carving out their place on social media platforms , such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Link -In, and more . Our site seeks to highlight their passion and commitment to sharing their joy of cooking West African culinary delights, and sharing it with the world. We focus on their unique take on bring the the West African pepper sauces to life, and sharing their recipes with the world. Help grow our list by dropping us a line on chefs specializing in traditional and innovative takes of West African cuisines and hot pepper sauces.
Immaculate Bites
Welcome to Immaculate Bites dedicated to sharing the culinary delights and fusion of African and Caribbean cuisine Imma, culinary love gave birth to her website, and she shares her joy of cooking Afro-Caribbean dishes, and sharing her famous dishes and recipes for all the world to enjoy. Imma is a mother, wife, a culinary ingredient explorer, an avid cookbook collector that serves as the source of inspiration to her delicious Afro-Caribbean dishes, elegant and exquisite meals for the every home cooked meal Website: .https://www.africanbites.com/about-imma/
West African Nations
Origin of West African Hot Peppers
Silk Road - Asia and Europe
Centuries ago, dating back to the 13th Century, European nations fought over control of the Asian to European spice trade, along the Silk Road, a network of land routes over deserts and mountains landscapes, connecting Asia to Europe. These fights went on for centuries, and by the Middle Age, their power struggle spilled over into South and Central, and eventually North America - the United States.
Ancient Spice Merchants
At the high of the Silk Road spice trade, Arabian, Asian, and European caravans led by spice merchants traveled in groups to bring highly sought after spices to European markets, thereby influencing their cuisine by adding spices such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, and turmeric to their national cuisines. Spices were among the most expensive and in-demand products of the Middle Ages, used in medicine.
Colonial Spice Traders
Greed propelled European Empires and rival powers, Spain, Portugal, France, England, etc, to try to find new sea routes through the Indian Ocean spice maritime spice trade to undercut reliance on the spice trade over land from Asia. Their quest to discover new sea routes to Asia, landed them in South and North America, forever changing history and lives of people in Africa, including slavery, wars, colonization, and more. With time new plants, such as the Habanero, Scott Bonnet, Cayenne pepper, were introduced to Europe, Africa, India, Asia, and more.
West African Cuisine
Popular Habanero, Scott Bonnet, Cayenne peppers are native to South and Central America. They were introduced to West Africa in the 15th century by Portuguese and Spanish explorers via trade routes from South America. to African, India , Asia, and have since become to dominate West African cuisines. for modern day African cuisine and dishes beloved around the world.
African Hot Pepper Sauces
African Pepper Sauces - The history behind the African cuisine is a complex one. Many recipes for African hot pepper sauces exist, and it is traditionally applied to local African cuisine including, meat, poultry, and fish dishes. In general, just about every household in Africa has its own special hot pepper sauce recipe, which has been handed down by many generations.
Throughout the coastal West African region, it has many different kind of names. In Liberia, the Kru tribe dominates with "hot fried pepper sauce". In Ghana, the "Shito" pepper sauce rules. Across the continent of Africa, other nations have their own variations of hot pepper sauces.
Somalia, "Shatta" is the hot sauce for flavor dishes. Tunisia flavors their culinary delights with "Harrassa" pepper sauce. South Africa's classical "Peri-Peri" sauce is legendary. Malawi's "Nali" sauce presents a different, but unique take on the "Peri-Peri" sauce.
Stay connected, and in touch as we learn more about African pepper sauces, spices, and culinary specialty of Africa. Share your knowledge on African hot pepper sauces, by dropping a line in our comment box. below. We are all on African Pepper Sauce Journey, and it takes a world community to stay in tune with the culinary delights of Africa.