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Also known as sriracha

Sriracha ( or ; , ) is a type of hot sauce or chili sauce made from a paste of chili peppers, distilled vinegar, pickled garlic, sugar, and salt. It was first produced in 1932 by a native of Si Racha, a town and district of Thailand, though it may have been based on older Cantonese recipes.

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Subclass of
condiment
Named after
Si Racha
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Sriracha sauce
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  • Use
  • Origin
  • Variations
  • Thailand
  • United States
  • In popular culture
  • See also
  • References
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Sriracha ( or ; , ) is a type of hot sauce or chili sauce made from a paste of chili peppers, distilled vinegar, pickled garlic, sugar, and salt. It was first produced in 1932 by a native of Si Racha, a town and district of Thailand, though it may have been based on older Cantonese recipes.

==Use== In Thailand, sriracha is frequently used as a dipping sauce, particularly for seafood and omelets.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sriracha sauce” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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