Thai Hot Sauce
Thailand has many great foods and sauces, and Thai Hot sauce is a popular sauce exported around the world. Thailand is not just famous for its hot sauces, but uses these hot sauces to add some spice to many of the famous dishes from the area.
Sriracha Sauce
The world-famous Sriracha sauce, which originates in the coastal town of Si Racha, is a hot paste made from chili peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar and salt. It is in commonly used throughout Asia and is becoming more popular across America and Europe.
Sriracha is the top selling hot chili sauce, and Huy Fong Foods sells the most popular brand in America. They originally sold the sauce to the Asian-American market, but it has become popular with the entire population. The Huy Fong Sriracha sauce features a rooster, and this is where the common nickname of rooster sauce comes from. Huy Fong rooster sauce is made in America, and is a little different to the Sriracha sauce you would find in Thailand, although they both use the same ingredients.
Make Your Own Sriracha Sauce
You can make your own Sriracha sauce quite easily. You will need:
- 1lb of fresh chilies
- 2 ½ cups of rice or white vinegar
- ¼ cup of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of salt
Simply remove the stems from the chili, and boil with the vinegar in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and add the sugar and salt and stir until it dissolves. Then blend the contents of the saucepan until it is a thin-paste puree. Strain the mixture through a sieve and remove any solids for a smooth consistency.
Uses for Sriracha Sauce
Sriracha sauce is a popular dipping sauce in Thailand, particularly with seafood dishes. As you get further afield, Thai hot sauce is a popular general-purpose hot sauce and condiment in Vietnam and Japan. It is also a good way to spice up Asian dishes that taste a little bland without it.
Recently, it has become a popular ingredient for spicy recipes and several Sriracha sauce cookbooks are available to help you use this intriguing sauce.
Other Thai Hot Sauces
Sriracha is the most famous hot Thai sauce, but it is not the only one. Many other recipes exist that use different ingredients with the hot chilies. Some of these other brands of Thai hot sauce include:
- Lingham’s Hot Sauce
- Pantai Norasingh Sweetened Chili Sauce for Spring Roll
- Gold Label Brand Red Chili Sauce
- ABC Tropical Chili Sauce
Pantai Norasingh Sweetened Chili Sauce is really a dipping sauce, with a hot-sweet flavor. This sauce is sweet and not too hot, but you can make a great hot wing sauce by adding salted butter and more hot sauce.
Lingham’s make a range of hot sauces for various markets. The hot sauce that sells in the American market is sweet and fruity with a pepper flake texture. It is a sweet than Sriracha sauce and has a lasting mild heat.
Gold Label Brand Red Chili Sauce is 70% red chili and 10% garlic, and is sweet without being too hot despite the high concentration of chili.
ABC Tropical Chili Sauce is the thickest and hottest of these sauces, with a hot and sweet flavor that fades to a steady heat. Of these alternatives, it is the most similar to Huy Fong Sriracha.
Thailand has some great foods, and these sauces make great condiments that can spice up the blandest of foods. Why not try a great Thai Hot Sauce today?
