Mama Nyonya Sauce - Spicy

Mama Nyonya Sauce - Spicy

110 gram jar - Taiwan

This colorful, small, six sided jar will catch your eye. You immediately assume that it's a hot sauce.

You're wrong and you're right. This mild or spicy sauce is a garlic based treat. It is smooth and puréed. Like a liquidy ketchup..

Open the jar and into the nose the aroma of garlic arises immediately filling your nostrils with a wonderful, sweet, freshest garlic aroma ever.

Dip your spoon in, swirl it around, shake it off. And then use your tongue on the back of the spoon to get your first taste of its wicked good flavor.  Don't be fooled. It's not just garlic. It's got some spice. It's got some heat. And it jumps up at you.

Boy, is it fun!!

Once you've tasted it, the smell digresses and it's all about the flavor and taste now. 

There's a sweetness, there's a bite of spicy, and there's a garlic filling feeling in your mouth.  What fun it is encapsulated in such a tiny amount.

Just a dab will make a good impression on any dish or any plate. Added to your favorite baked beans, soup or do some dipping in.  Fantastic!!

If you like garlic and you like things to be spicy or even mild this is for you.

The beauty is, it's not so spicy that taking a tongue of it is out of the question! It is full of fun flavors that bring out the best with this very special sauce.

If you start with the spicy, the mild will seem mellow. The mild has got some spicy personality to it too, just not in the same way. Mild is like a friend who has something to say, just doesn’t yell at you….

Yi Shan and Ewe are a Taiwanese-Malaysian couple whose company Mama Nyonya create these two sauces based on Ewe’s great-grandmother family recipe.

It all starts with the garlic. Specifically the He Mei 和美蒜, a hardneck garlic with relatively small bulbs and cloves, is spicier than other garlic varieties and melds perfectly in this recipe.

Garlic in Taiwan, including the He Mei variety, is primarily grown in Yunlin County , which accounts for 92% of the garlic production in Taiwan.  Yunlin County has over 5,000 hectares of land dedicated to garlic cultivation, representing about 85% of the total land growing garlic in Taiwan. 

The Nyonya sauce recipe He Mei garlic, is grown just to the north in Changhua County on the family farm. It is the garlic that makes it great! Along with a special chili mix…

Imagine  a clean Sriracha and this is it. Use it everywhere! From classic dishes to topping pho, pizza and fries! What a wonderful sauce!