Ingredients: Habanero pepper, vinegar, tomato, salt, spices and 0.1% of sodium benzoate as preservative.
A few weeks ago I went downtown to the Los Angeles Grand Central Market where I picked up a 4 ounce bottle of El Yucateco Salsa Kutbil-ik-de Chile Habanero (XXXtra Hot Sauce) for a grand $1.75! Usually for that amount of money, I get a sauce along the lines of Frank’s Red Hot (aka flavored vinegar). I walked over to the Taco Shop, ordered a beef burrito and slapped some of the sauce on it.
WOW! To my surprise this sauce was great! Since then I have gone through this faster than any sauce I’ve owned, and sadly, it is all gone. For a sauce that uses unripe green habaneros, it has an amazing hab flavor and heat. After applying it way too liberally to a burrito in a drunken stupor one night, I ended up watery eyed and running for more beer (which didn’t help the drunken stupor part and just spread the heat more evenly). This thing has quite a bite to it which hits you very quickly.
The taste is out of this world. Like I said above, it has a nice habanero flavor and the spices they use are spot on. I detect quite a bit of garlic, which combines nicely with the tomato. An added bonus is that you don’t have to refrigerate this one, leaving you much more room for other sauces!
Taste:9, Heat:7 and then it builds to a 9
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Sorry I miss you all at the store today next we will meet up. Bret
Comment fired by Bret — November 25, 2006- 5:03 pm
I agree with you completely. I bought 20 different sauces and this is in my top 3. It is not salty nor too vinegary. If I had to describe its nuance, I think there is a bit of a black pepper bite, slighty reminiscent of jerk. I use this as a pour-on condiment as well as a recipe-saver. One teaspoon will revive a boring can of soup. Cheap as heck and way better than most gimmick sauces. I will buy a dozen or 2 the next time I run across it.
Comment fired by spicydoc — December 17, 2006- 11:59 am
I just went and bought 4 bottles from the local market. Two to give away, and two to keep.
Comment fired by Jonathan Passow — December 18, 2006- 11:33 am