A hot sauce made with red hot peppers, vinegar, salt, and special spices. Many of the Louisiana hot sauces are made with cayenne peppers, which provide for a mild hot sauce.
A term applied to food ingredients that are finely chopped for preparation to be served. It also refers to food such as corned beef hash or roast beef hash, which contains chopped meat, potatoes, vegetables such as peppers, onions, celery, or carrots, and various seasonings.