Copycat Taco Bell Diablo Sauce

[@drcrowlee]

So glad Hellthy Junkfood pointed me this way. Your videos are amazing, quick and concise! Love it.

[@PopKitchen]

Thank you!!

[@vinnymitchell6157]

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[@chager00]

I made this, verbatim, and it tastes like spicy ketchup or bbq sauce. Pretty good, either way, but very tomatoey and really doesn't taste much like Diablo sauce, in my opinion. Pretty damn good on a burger though. But I'm really looking for a true Diablo copy cat and will keep looking.

[@firefightingemt41]

thanks jp and julia at hjf. i remember when taco bell brought back the diablo sauce i literally freaked out in the drive through hahaha. love it!

[@Tomnickles]

I love this sauce! Thank you!

[@PopKitchen]

We do too! Thank you!

[@shreddingstuff]

Here from HellthyJunkFood

[@IMMASICKKKFUCK]

good for you

[@laureenpiegari9522]

YUBEL Δ bich

[@jayoutlaw7402]

Diablo sauce has paprika in it, that's it's main flavor. WHERE'S THE PAPRIKA!?

[@jestondulin1154]

I love this, but I also feel like it'd be easier to just walk into a Taco Bell and steal some packets of their sauce.

[@PopKitchen]

Sometimes it's fun to try to recreate it!

[@jestondulin1154]

Oh yeah, I totally get it! This is great. I just know I'd give up halfway through and be like, "Screw it, I'm going to TB." Thanks for the awesome video!

[@king-vn6fb]

this is the best thing taco bell has

[@queenjama1226]

Here from hjf I looove this channel

[@jordansdad1221]

OK, quick question. When I eat this sauce in the packets, it has a lime juice aftertaste, yet you added no lime juice. What gives? Also, I LOVE this sauce & lime juice, & Hellthy Junkfood....

[@PopKitchen]

You can definitely add some lime juice if you'd like!

[@aseriesoftubes66]

It has lime flavor, for sure. Community Table is just here to generate hits, and make some money. It doesn't matter to them how accurate their recipes are. They can say they're making a copycat of anything they want, and if people search for it, and find it under their account, they get paid.

[@mkcraghead]

If you look at the ingredients on the bottle, there is no lime juice. However, it does mention "natural flavors", so maybe lime is a natural flavor. 😉 The ingredients also mention paprika extractives. That's not in this recipe directly. Maybe that comes from the chipotle peppers in adobo or the aji panca paste.

[@robbg3255]

Home made hot sauce..oooh yeah

[@enricod2061]

You forgot the hints of lime

[@PopKitchen]

That would be delicious

[@aseriesoftubes66]

It IS delicious, 'cause the real stuff actually has lime flavor.

[@dankwoofer2288]

I always thought diablo sauce had habanero peppers in it

[@kangaroofuno]

What if I can't find aji panca paste?

[@1975mabrown]

your local store should have it where they have Goya products

[@TheSlimp901]

That shit look hotter then the dam tb sauce

[@AnthonySwinsinski]

should they be a 6 Oz can on tomato paste or is 16 Oz correct?

[@ThelolArtist]

Anthony Swinsinski it looks like it's 16oz

[@mkcraghead]

I saw another copycat recipe that had the exact same ingredients. The only difference was 6oz. of tomato paste instead of 16oz.. The consistency looked correct compared to this one (I just made it - WAY too thick). Even with the other being closer to the correct consistency they still added water to get it right, so there is no way that 16oz. is going to make it like Diablo sauce. This stuff ended up being as thick, if not thicker, than ketchup. It's 6oz. for me from now on.

[@g.a.b.r.i.e.lglass5839]

The poeple who bought taco hot sauce at the store wasted money you can just get a lot of packets of mild hot firehot or diablo

[@bbybear712]

How long will this sauce keep in the fridge?

[@PopKitchen]

About a few days in the fridge (ours didn't last that long) or you can freeze it!

[@dennismattson8383]

Saw bottles of Taco Bell Diablo at the 99 cent store a few months back, so I grabbed one.... LOVE IT.... NOW?? selling for $8- $39 / bottle on eBay !!! :0)

[@g.a.b.r.i.e.lglass5839]

The poeple who bought taco hot sauce at the store wasted money you can just get a lot of packets of mild hot firehot or diablo for free

[@tubeagespank]

Cumin? No?

[@426superbee4]

mine is better than taco bell. THE FAVOR AND SPICE IS OUT OF THIS WORLD ~ not for kids its to hot

[@pcmciauser]

OK, so I made this using only 6 oz. of tomato paste (as that is what you actually meant). And I have to say, this is a 'copycat' only in the sense that Taco Bell made some hot sauce, and then you made some hot sauce. I have to believe you've never actually tasted the real Diablo sauce, because your recipe doesn't come anywhere close to it. Way too sweet; yes, the real stuff is a tad sweet compared to other hot sauces, but this is sweet like barbecue sauce. And speaking of barbecue sauce, this recipe is way too smoky; the real Diablo sauce has a very slight hint of smokiness. Very, very slight. Your recipe is ridiculously heavy on the smoke. No lime; the real stuff has a big lime taste; not necessarily fresh squeezed lime, but more like the 'Real Lime' juice you'd buy in a grocery store. The vinegar in your recipe is not an adequate substitute for lime; you can't just swap one acid for another if making a 'copycat' is what you're truly going for. Still too tomato-ey; the ratio of water to tomato paste is too low. Salt; the real stuff has salt. Not a ton of salt, but the small amount of salt this recipe gets from the adobo sauce is not enough. Aji panca is great stuff; wrong for DIablo sauce. Back to drawing board.

[@PopKitchen]

We're glad you tried the recipe! The unfortunate thing about peppers is that they can vary so much in flavor. We tried this sauce side-by-side with Diablo and it was almost identical!

[@pcmciauser]

I agree that the variance of pepper flavors could potentially make a big difference, however, it's not just peppers that make this recipe so dissimilar to the original; see the numerous reasons listed in my post above. I really can't see how this ever could've been considered almost identical. It couldn't possibly have been. I would suggest you try it again, 'cause really, there are just too many other issues with it.

[@jordansdad1221]

Yes, I too taste the lime juice in the Taco Bell Diablo sauce...

[@jellydopenut]

@@pcmciauser what would you recommend using for a copycat diablo sauce? really interested to hear your opinion on it. 🤔

[@nuggetnamr7347]

those look like nutala lol

[@jagger1008]

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