Sriracha sauce
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Horseshoe crab served with sriracha sauce in the town of Si Racha
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| Heat |  Medium |
| Scoville scale | 1,000–2,500 SHU |
Sriracha (Thai: ศรีราชา, [sǐː rāː.t͡ɕʰāː] (
listen)) is a type of hot sauce or chili sauce made from a paste of chili peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar, and salt.[1] 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.[2]
Use
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.[3]
Sriracha is also eaten in soup, on eggs and burgers. Jams, lollipops, and cocktails have all been made using the sauce,[4] and sriracha-flavored potato chips have been marketed.[5]
Origin
The origin and history of sriracha is unknown. The sauce is purported to have been first produced by a Thai woman named Thanom Chakkapak in the town of Si Racha (or Sri Racha), Thailand.[6]
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.[7]
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.[7]
United States
Within the United States, sriracha is associated with a sauce produced by Huy Fong Foods[2] and is sometimes referred to as "rooster sauce" or "cock sauce"[8] due to the image of a rooster on the bottle.[9] Other variations of sriracha have appeared in the US market, including a sriracha that is aged in whiskey barrels.[10][11]
Various restaurants in the US, including Applebee's, P.F. Chang's, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Jack in the Box, Subway, White Castle, Gordon Biersch, and Burger King have incorporated sriracha into their dishes, sometimes mixing it with mayonnaise or into dipping sauces.[2][12][13][14][15][16] 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.[17]
See also
- List of hot sauces
- Nam phrik—Thai chili pastes
- Nam chim—Thai dipping sauces
References
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External links
Media related to Sriracha sauce at Wikimedia Commons
