Things You Didn’t Know About Sriracha

You have probably seen Sriracha on your grocery run and know all about its origin and basic facts about it. And when you think of Sriracha, the first word that pops in your head is, hot sauce. There is interesting mix of sweet, hot, and sour that gives your tastebuds a fiery kick. Two words can precisely describe this sauce and that is “absolutely delectable”. However, there is a list of things that are still unknown to the wider population. There are some facts that you are most likely not aware of.

If we dig in a little more, we will discover all there is about this flavoursome sauce.

1.The famous bright red bottle you see on the shelves is manufactured by Huy Fong Foods, they make the sauce and the bottle too. They have a high production of 18,000 bottles of Sriracha every hour. We must admit, that is quite a bit.

2. Did you know that the first bottle of Sriracha sauce was made by David Tran, in the 1980s. He filled the bottles and delivered them to Chinatown himself, on his van.

3. The Sriracha sauce made by Huy Fong Foods is not the original sauce. The sauce was infact invented by a woman in Thailand, in the city of Si Racha. If you are curious to know what the original Sriracha tasted like you can buy the original recipe, it is under the name Sriraja Panich. The original recipe makes a thinner sauce which is slight sweeter than the one we know of today.

4. Sriracha sauce is so famous that it doesn’t need advertisements, and marketing. The revenue and sales of this sauce goes up each, without any sort of commercials and ads. Yes, once you taste Sriracha sauce that’s it you are hooked, there is no going back. You would be pouring it.

5, You can cook countless delicious recipes with Sriracha Sauce, including the delicious Sriracha fried chicken.

6. There is a book dedicated to this condiment. Unbelievable but true.

It is a seamless mix of red pepper, chilli, garlic, and the pineapple that balances all the flavors. You can pour it atop your scrambled eggs, your vegetable salad or make numerous recipes with it. Order it now from Amazon and enjoy the myriad of flavors that MamaLan’s Pineapple Sriracha has to offer.