? about Tabasco green pepper sauce

[knunes]

I'm making Rick Bayless' Emerald Chowder.
I don't have any Tabasco Green Pepper sauce. I have Tabasco Red pepper sauce. I looked online and found that the green pepper sauce is made from jalapeno peppers and is much milder than the red (900 Scoville units as opposed to 3700). The recipe calls for 1-1/2 to 2 tsps of the green pepper sauce.
Any suggestions as to what I should do?
I could: add part of a can of jalapeno chili peppers
Use some salsa verde
leave it out and add something completely different like chipotle powder
use 1/4 tsp of the red pepper sauce which I think would give it a very different taste too.
What do you think?

[cooknmom38]

I would make it using the red that you have only use 1/2 -1 tsp. Its such a small amount that it really wont alter the recipe that much. Its just the heat factor that you want to add.

[knunes]

Thanks, cooknmom. I put off the decision, as what I did was make the soup through most of the steps, then added just the salt and sugar and no pepper sauce yet, then stirred in the corn, and then refrigerated it. Since I'm not going to use it today, I figured, why stir in the cream yet, and if I still have to heat it back up to add the cream, I can add whatever then, and in the meantime, maybe some folks would have opinions. And you're the first opinion! Thank you!

[cooknmom38]

No problem.. we use all kinds of hot sauce here in our house. I actually put the green tabasco on my salads and believe it or not tuna fish sandwiches! Its that mild I think....LOL! Just when you use the red one~ use it sparingly until you achieve the hotness that you and your family like. You can always add more, but you cant take it out once its in there! :o)