Hot Sauce – Review of YesChilli

I found it quite difficult to review this sauce since it’s really unique and nothing like I’ve had before in terms of flavour.

YesChilli Hot Sauce is pan roasted & sun dried dark pepper, and ginger based oil that is made in the UK. The ingredients in YesChilli Hot Sauce are just Sunflower oil, pepper, ginger, and soya extract, which sounds promising since I find that oils are best when just a few strong ingredients are added.

The oil is highly packed with the dark black pepper, you really have to give the bottle a vigorous shake to distribute the pepper and other ingredients from the bottom. YesChilli Hot Sauce is not a smooth pouring oil, this is a highly flecked oil which is quite thick due to the amount of bits in the bottle.

YesChilli Hot Sauce bursts your nostrils open with a deep, earthy aromatic smell of roasted chilli and soy, it’s a very powerful aroma which smells like it could wake up any dish it’s added to. The same goes for the taste, it’s ever so powerful and rich, a mass of roasted peppers and chilli heat fills the mouth on taste, a searing burn that is instant but fades fasts. I’m still in the dark at what chilli pepper is used in this sauce, but it tastes more like a hot black peppercorn than a fresh red chilli for example. The ginger is subtlety there, and the soy pushes through. YesChilli Hot Sauce is a clearly an Asian inspired tasting sauce, you’d really only pair this with Asian style foods due to the strong soy presence – but I could be wrong and will experiment.

YesChilli Hot Sauce is quite unique in that it really produces an instantly burning heat in your mouth, but hides fast leaving you to enjoy the wonderfully deep flavour that is left behind. I found that after eating quite a lot of the sauce in dish almost numbs the tongue a little, in the same way that too much Schezwan pepper can do.

I really enjoy this sauce on stir-fries, rice dishes, sushi, and I’ve roasted peanuts (see photos below) in it a few times now which are delightful. I found it quite difficult to review this sauce since it’s really unique and nothing like I’ve had before in terms of flavour. If you’re into your Asian food and don’t mind that this is an oil-based sauce, I’d say go out and buy this right-away – it’s really excellent – YES!

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YesChilli Hot Sauce

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