Ingredient: Tabasco sauce
Category: Herbs, Spices & Seasoning
Season: All
Tabasco sauce is a brand of hot sauce made from tabasco peppers (Capsicum frutescens var. tabasco), vinegar, and salt, and aged in white oak barrels for three years.
It has a hot, spicy flavour and is popular in many parts of the world.
Perfect if you want to perk something up with just a dash of heat, also useful when you've added fresh chillies to a recipe and they haven't quite provided the heat you wanted, a few drops will supplement it beautifully.
Tabasco is trademarked as the brand name, for the variety of tabasco sauce marketed by one of the United States' biggest makers of hot sauce, the McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana.
Tabasco is the most famous brand of "hot pepper sauce".
Although it is produced in the United States, it acquired its name from the state of Tabasco in Mexico.
Several new types of sauces are now produced under the name Tabasco Sauce, including: jalapeño-based green, chipotle-based smoked, habanero, garlic, and "sweet and spicy" sauces.
McIlhenny also produces a Tabasco soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce.
The habanero sauce and garlic sauces, both include the tabasco peppers blended with other peppers.
The jalapeño variety does not include tabasco peppers. |