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Condiments & seasonings

Hot sauce

Also called chili sauce and pepper sauce

Hot sauce is a condiment made with chili peppers, sometimes with salt, vinegar, carrot, onion, mustard, or sherry. Cooks use it to season meat, eggs, vegetables, and bread.

  • alcohol depends on the product

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Cooked most in
The Americas, Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Hot sauce, packaged

Photo: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use hot sauce

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Season

Made from

Goes well with

Around the world

Where hot sauce is cooked

2 dishes in the catalogue use hot sauce. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list hot sauce among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. 1807 · United States

    An early commercially available bottled hot sauce appeared in Massachusetts.

  2. 1868 · United States

    Tabasco sauce appeared in the United States.

On the table

Dishes made with hot sauce

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Rice Jamblang

    Indonesia

  • Enchilada

    Mexico

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include hot sauce.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: hot sauce in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Alcohol
Depends on the product (only when the optional ingredient is used)

Around the world

What hot sauce is called

Names in 41 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    salsa picante

  • French

    sauce piquante · sauce chili · sauce pimentée

  • Italian

    salsa piccante

  • Portuguese

    Molho picante

  • German

    scharfe Soße

  • Dutch

    hete saus · pikante saus

  • Turkish

    acı sos · sıcak sos

  • Russian

    острый соус

  • Polish

    ostry sos

  • Arabic

    شطة

  • Persian

    سس تند

  • Hebrew

    רוטב חריף

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  • Armenian

    կծու սոուս

  • Asturian

    salsa picante · mueyu picante · picante

  • Bangla

    গরম সস্‌ · চিলি সস্‌

  • Basque

    Saltsa min

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    востры соўс

  • Cantonese

    辣醬 · 辣椒醬

  • Catalan

    salsa picant

  • Chinese

    辣酱 · 辣椒酱

  • Czech

    pálivá omáčka

  • Egyptian Arabic

    شطه

  • Esperanto

    pika saŭco

  • Estonian

    kuum kaste

  • Filipino

    sawsawang maanghang · sawsawang pikante · salsang maanghang · salsang pikante

  • Finnish

    tulinen kastike

  • Galician

    mollo picante

  • Hakka Chinese

    la̍t-chiong

  • Indonesian

    saus pedas

  • Japanese

    ホットソース

  • Javanese

    Saos pedhes

  • Korean

    핫소스

  • Latin

    Liquamen e capsicis

  • Malayalam

    ഹോട്ട് സോസ്

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    kryddersaus

  • Punjabi

    ਹੌਟ ਸੌਸ · ਗਰਮ ਸੌਸ

  • ryu

    ハットソース

  • Serbian

    љути сос

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    љути сос

  • Serbian (Latin)

    ljuti sos

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    辣酱 · 辣椒酱

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    辣酱 · 辣椒酱

  • Slovenian

    ostra omaka · pikantna omaka

  • Swedish

    stark sås

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    辣醬 · 辣椒醬

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    辣醬 · 辣椒醬

  • Ukrainian

    гострий соус

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q522171

Photos

Photo: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons