Sriracha sauce is splashed onto just about everything, even the morning eggs is drizzled with it. The fanbase of the Sriracha sauce grows every year, but have you ever wondered what is in the spicy sauce? In this article we explore the ingredients that make Sriracha taste so good.
The bright red condiment was once used as a topping for Thai food but quickly became a worldwide obsession, producing an entire industry of cookbooks and snack foods. The main reason for its fame is its versatility and the fact that it is spicy but doesn’t burn your mouth, you can use Sriracha to give your food a bit of a kick. The basic ingredients for Sriracha are listed outside the bottle, the label reads chiles, sugar, garlic, distilled vinegar, potassium sorbate, sodium bisulfite and xanthan gum, that’s pretty much it! The secret recipe is well guarded, but we can take a closer at the mentioned ingredients to figure out more about the sauce.
We can start by looking at the two main ingredients, “peppers” and vinegar”, the two essential ingredients usually form the base for this sauce for commercial and non-commercial uses. The heat comes from red jalapeños peppers, but on the Scoville scale the sauce measures only 2,200 as compared to Tabasco that measures at 3,750 and cayenne pepper at 50,000. Therefore, Sriracha sauce isn’t immensely spicy, so you can enjoy the full flavour without feeling too hot.
The first step in making Sriracha is grounding up the chiles with the seeds, the minced chiles are then mixed with vinegar. The vinegar has two important functions in the hot sauce, it acts as a preservative and aids the breakdown of peppers.
The peppers are combined with salt, vinegar and preservatives and kept inside sealed barrels; they are then used to make the sauce throughout the year.
Sugar and garlic add complexity to the flavour of the sauce, and the xanthan gum helps thicken the sauce. It has the same thick consistency as that of ketchup.
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