Sriracha sauce (Huy Fong Foods)
 A bottle of Huy Fong Foods Sriracha sauce. |
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| Heat |  Medium |
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| Scoville scale | 1,000-2,500 |
Sriracha sauce (Vietnamese: Tương Ớt Sriracha; Chinese: 是拉差香甜辣椒醬; Shìlāchà xiāngtián làjiāo jiàng) is a hot sauce product by Huy Fong Foods. Created by Chinese-Vietnamese founder David Tran, it is a brand of Sriracha sauce that has achieved popularity in the United States. It is also known as rooster sauce or cock sauce because of the rooster featured on its label.[1] There are now cookbooks featuring recipes that use it as their main condiment.[2]
It can be recognized by its bright red color and its packaging: a clear plastic bottle with a green cap, text in five languages (Vietnamese, English, Chinese, French and Spanish) and the rooster logo.
The Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce recipe has not changed since 1983. The bottle lists the ingredients "Chili, sugar, salt, garlic, distilled vinegar, potassium sorbate, sodium bisulfite and xanthan gum." Huy Fong Foods' chili sauces are made from ripe red jalapeño chili peppers and contain no added water or artificial colors. The company formerly used serrano chilis but found them difficult to harvest.
In December 2009, Bon Appétit magazine named this sriracha sauce Ingredient of the Year for 2010.[3][4]
Huy Fong Foods Sriracha sauce ranks in the 1,000-2,500 heat units range, above banana pepper and below Jalapeño pepper, on the Scoville scale used to measure the spicy heat of a chili pepper.
References [edit]
- ^ Edge, John (May 19, 2009). "A Chili Sauce to Crow About". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
- ^ Clemens, Randy (2011). The Sriracha Cookbook. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 9781607740032.
- ^ Von Biel, Victoria (16 December 2009). "Best Foods of the Year". Bon Appétit. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
- ^ Patterson, Daniel (January 2010). "Sriracha: 4 Recipes for a $5 Ingredient". Bon Appétit. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
