My La Victoria’s orange sauce dupe

I tried most of the La Vic’s orange sauce replica recipes I’ve seen posted here, and while most of them are good, I haven’t found one I would call a full dupe of La Vic’s sauce. There are a few ingredients which I don’t think are in La Vic’s recipe, like jalapeños (wrong color and taste), chipotles (took smokey), and tomatoes (too much of a gazpacho texture).

After playing around with a recipe for weeks, I found one that tastes pretty similar to La Vic’s. I live a few hours away from the Bay Area and ran out of their sauce a few weeks ago so can’t A/B them at the moment, but will the next time I’m there.

I took a 12 oz bottle of fermented red peppers from Whole Foods (these) and blended with around 20 cloves of fresh garlic (two pods in the bags that come with a few plastic pods inside ) and a splash of lime juice. Next I added some soy lechin as an emulsifier and poured in grape-seed oil while the blender was going at medium speed to emulsify it. Finally, I blended in 4 deseeded dried chiles de arbol at high speed to give it some heat.

The owners of La Vic’s have said the sauce has white onions, but I couldn’t figure out a way to incorporate them without making the sauce too fizzy.