Sriracha sauce

Sriracha

Horseshoe crab served with sriracha sauce in the town of Si Racha
Heat Medium
Scoville scale 1,000–2,500[1] SHU

Sriracha (Thai: ศรีราชา, Thai pronunciation: [sǐːrāːt͡ɕʰāː]; English: /sɪˈrɑːtʃə/) is a type of hot sauce or chili sauce made from a paste of chili peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar, and salt.[2] It is named after the coastal city of Si Racha, in Chonburi Province of eastern Thailand, where it may have been first produced for dishes served at local seafood restaurants.[3]

Use

Sriraja Paniche
Sriracha "Rooster Sauce"
Sriraja Panich chili sauce by Thai Theparos Food Products (left) and Tương Ớt Sriracha ("Rooster Sauce") by Huy Fong Foods (right).

In Thailand, sriracha is frequently used as a dipping sauce, particularly for seafood. In Vietnamese cuisine, sriracha appears as a condiment for phở, fried noodles, a topping for spring rolls (chả giò), and in sauces.[4]

Sriracha is also eaten in soup, on eggs and burgers. Jams, lollipops, and cocktails have all been made using the sauce,[5] and sriracha-flavored potato chips have been marketed.[6]

Origin

The origin and history of sriracha is debated. One report has it that the sauce was first produced by a Thai woman named Thanom Chakkapak in the town of Si Racha (or Sri Racha).[7]

According to the Thai "Chomrom Rak Si Racha" (The Si Racha Lovers' Association) the sauce was first made in Sriracha by Burmese sawmill workers. The association interviewed 88 year-old Thawat Wiphisamakun, known locally as Ah Pae. Ah Pae's maternal grandmother had a small shop in Sriracha. The Burmese came to the shop to buy chillies, salt, vinegar, and sugar to pound in a mortar to make their sauce. Eventually she started making the sauce herself, both for family use and for sale to customers. Soon, another customer, Kimsua Thimkrachang, began to buy large quantities of chillies, salt, vinegar, and sugar. He was making the chilli sauce for sale, using the brand name, "Sauce Si Racha Traa Phukhao Thong" (Golden Mountain Brand Si Racha Sauce) with a picture of the Golden Mountain Temple on the label. Its name was "Si Racha Phanich".[8]

Variations

Thailand

In Thailand, the sauce is most often called sot Siracha (Thai: ซอสศรีราชา) and only sometimes nam phrik Siracha (Thai: น้ำพริกศรีราชา). Traditional Thai sriracha sauce tends to be tangier in taste, and runnier in texture than non-Thai versions.[9]

In a Bon Appétit magazine interview, US Asian-foods distributor Eastland Food Corporation asserted that the Thai brand of hot sauce Sriraja Panich, which Eastland distributes, is the original "sriracha sauce" and was created in Si Racha, Thailand, in the 1930s from the recipe of a housewife named Thanom Chakkapak.[9]

United States

Within the United States, sriracha is associated with a sauce produced by Huy Fong Foods[3] and is sometimes referred to as "rooster sauce" or "cock sauce"[10] due to the image of a rooster on the bottle.[11] Other variations of sriracha have appeared in the US market, including a sriracha that is aged in whiskey barrels.[12][13]

Various restaurants in the US, including Wendy's,[14] Applebee's, P.F. Chang's, Pizza Hut, Domino's Pizza,[15] Jack in the Box, McDonald's, Subway, Taco Bell, White Castle, Gordon Biersch, Chick-fil-a, Firehouse Subs, Starbucks and Burger King have incorporated sriracha into their dishes, sometimes mixing it with mayonnaise or into dipping sauces.[3][16][17][18][19][20] Blue Diamond, a leading producer of almond products, markets a sriracha-flavor alongside their other flavors.[21] The name "sriracha" is considered to be a generic term, since the creator of the Huy Fong Foods sauce, David Tran, did not trademark it.[22]

In 2013, American filmmaker Griffin Hammond released a documentary about the origin and production of sriracha.[23]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lee, Jolie (26 February 2014). "Why do we love Sriracha? Science!". USA Today. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "What is sriracha?". Cookthink.com. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 Edge, John T. (May 19, 2009). "A Chili Sauce to Crow About". The New York Times. p. D1. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ Moncel, Bethany. "Sriracha Sauce – Definition, History, Uses, and Availability". About.com. Food Reference. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  5. ↑ Magazine Monitor (December 21, 2013). "Sriracha: How a sauce won over the US". BBC News. Magazine Monitor (column). Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  6. ↑ Shyong, Frank (April 12, 2013). "Sriracha hot sauce purveyor turns up the heat". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 29, 2013. Roland Foods in New York makes its own variety, Sriracha Chili Sauce, in a similarly shaped yellow-capped bottle featuring two dragons instead of a rooster. Frito-Lay is testing a sriracha-flavored potato chip, and Subway is experimenting with a creamy sriracha sauce for sandwiches.
  7. ↑ Khaleeli, Homa (2 October 2014). "Hot right now: how Sriracha has become a must-have sauce". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  8. ↑ Sukpisit, Suthon (2016-01-17). "A Sauce of Inspiration". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  9. 1 2 Nguyen, Andrea (March 4, 2013). "The Original Sriracha". Bon Appétit. Retrieved June 29, 2015. The Thais also make many versions of [sriracha] sauce... which tend to be more liquid and pourable than Huy Fong’s. Sriraja Panich has a lovely balance of bright chile heat, delicate sweetness, vinegary tang, and garlicky backnote.
  10. ↑ Usborne, Simon (November 20, 2013). "Sriracha hot sauce: Heated dispute". The Independent. London. Retrieved June 29, 2015. But like most obsessives, Erskine is fiercely loyal to 'rooster sauce' as some know the brand (in the US it is sometimes also called 'cock sauce').
  11. ↑ Sytsma, Alan (February 2, 2008). "A Rooster's Wake-Up Call". Gourmet. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  12. ↑ Fanous, Angelina (March 6, 2014). "Sriracha Aged in Whiskey Barrels is Better than the Original Sauce". Vice. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  13. ↑ Birdsall, John (March 6, 2014). "A Woman in SF is Barrel-Aging Sriracha, and it's Awesome". Chow. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  14. ↑ "BACON SRIRACHA FRIES". Wendy's. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  15. ↑ "Sriracha Pizza & Wings".
  16. ↑ "Subway's Sriracha Sauce Goes National, And It's Good". Taste. The Huffington Post. November 7, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  17. ↑ "White Castle Introduces New Full-Flavored Sriracha Chicken Sliders" (Press release). White Castle. May 31, 2014. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  18. ↑ Hannan, Caleb (February 21, 2013). "Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire, Yet 'There's Only One Rooster'". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  19. ↑ Harris, Jenn (February 25, 2015). "Taste-testing Taco Bell's new Sriracha Quesarito". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  20. ↑ "Burger King brings the heat with Extra Long Sriracha Cheeseburger". Fox News. October 22, 2015. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  21. ↑ "Bold Sriracha Flavor". Blue Diamond. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  22. ↑ Pierson, David (February 10, 2015). "With no trademark, Sriracha name is showing up everywhere". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 26, 2015. Two dozen applications to use the word have been filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. None has been granted for Sriracha alone. The word is now too generic, the agency determined. ...Unlike the name, Tran trademarked his rooster logo and distinctive bottle.
  23. ↑ Hammond, Griffin (2013-12-11), Sriracha, retrieved 2016-04-11
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