I recently got back from a trip to Puerto Rico with a few bottles of hot sauce in my bag and the intention to consume them. That’s just where I’m at right now: gotta be hot!
Well, I have a few good stews and soups I can spice up nicely, and I am sure I could think of more ideas, but the dope is really good at this. What do you say? Got any good suggestions for dishes/foods that work well with hot sauce? Include the recipe or just name it if you’d rather. If you have a favorite hot sauce, name that, too. I am game for spicy recipes that use a lot of peppers or what-have-you if that’s what you’ve got.
What kind of sauces are they? I don’t think Puerto Rico is well known for a particular style of hot sauce. I associate Carribean sauces with bright, fruity flavors, partly from the use of habanero or scotch bonnet chiles and partly from actual fruit ingredients. Matouks and Grace products are good.
One is a scotch bonnet sauce that is not as hot as I expected, mashed up as it is with herbs and veggies. The other comes in a pint bottle like for liquor, but is full of peppers and things floating in clear liquid. “Genuine Puerto Rico” something something. I took the chance on it and it is fantastic, very flavorful besides just the heat and probably the cause of my hot sauce mania. I will get the brand names for you after work.
Scrambled eggs, meatloaf, and weirdly enough, saltines with peanut butter all work really well with hot sauce. The pb and crackers I’ve done with Yellowbird Habanero (the Serrano is my favourite), sriracha, and tabasco chipotle. All good.
Most rice dishes respond well to hot sauce as well.
OK, the good stuff is merely labeled “Puerto Rico Goodies”, not even an ingredients list or nutrition info, or anything else other than the phrase “flavors of the island”.
The scotch bonnet sauce is Caribbean Trading Company: Gourmet Scotch Bonnet Passion Punch Crushed Pepper Sauce de Puerto Rico. It is not as hot as I expected, but I am putting it on everything.