Since the first lockdown, Saturday night has always been "pizza night" at our home, however, I am starting to get a bit bored of all the spicy toppings – sriracha, hot honey (lots of different types), BBQ, jalapeno etc. Can anyone recommend a sauce or other topping to make nice and spicy pizza? Ta 🙂
Haggis. Amazing on a pizza.
Also on a baked spud.
Nando's XX Hot sauce has a fairly decent taste and is readily available at the local supermarket, even better is Vusa if you can find it. Depends how hot you want though, they're "general public" hot, not actual hot.
El Yucateco make some decent ones as well. Caribbean Habanero is especially tasty.
Make your own pizza sauce? It's a degree of work but worth it, I make a massive panful and stick it in the freezer in individual baggies. You can make it as spicy as you like then (though I tend just to stick to a drizzle of sriracha).
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha
Roquito peppers and 'nduja di Spilinga (like a spicy sausage pâté) are two of the greatest pizza toppings. Very nice with pepperoni and/or salami.
N’duja is amazing stuff. That with some prosciutto alongside.
good nduja
dont waste your time with the small 2.50 "tesco finest" packet of out tesco - its awful.
https://www.adimaria.co.uk/nduja-calabrese-500g
This is good.
for hot sauce - neighbours of mine , Voodoo mango (sweet tangy hot) and the apache ( fire hot) are wicked.
Just chop a couple of birds eye chillies and add them to whatever other toppings you're having?
If you just want to add some hot sauce to your pizza then I’d personally avoid the thinner-consistency sauces like Tabasco and cholula as they tend to dribble a bit too much. All the Nando’s sauces are good IMO, as are the Sauce Shop ones I’ve tried. In particular the sauce shop classic fermented jalapeno one strikes me as the platonic ideal of a hot sauce.
From the title I came to recommend a h sriracha honey. Then read you said you've tried loads. And so I'm going to recommend it anyway...
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sauce-shop-honey-sriracha-drizzle-190g
Belazu make a vegetarian version of nduja (we call it vejuju in our house) - it's less greasy than real nduja and a very versatile way of getting tasty heat in dishes - basically a hotter version of the flavour of pepperoni but the nduja just melts away into the pizza and flavours the whole thing. Works well on pizzas as the flavours are closer to the typical family of pizza toppings, just with more heat, rather than getting all heretical
Harissa would work well I guess and is more of a paste than a sauce so less runny on a pizza. Pilpelchuma is similar (but less commonly available)
Maybe make the base sauce using an arabiata recipe
I can’t believe I forgot to mention Lao Gan Ma chilli crisp. It’s the best condiment in the world. Undefeated champion.
I can’t believe I forgot to mention Lao Gan Ma chilli crisp. It’s the best condiment in the world. Undefeated champion.
Hah - I make my own (I have no idea why I hadn't thought of putting it on my pizza).
Finally, a thread on STW that's my calling card 😎
Fermented chilli sauce, then blend it with pineapple. Lots of recipes online ive tried a good few, the chilli variety matters more than the recipe imo, if going store bought instead of homegrown Chillis, bird eye or scotch bonnets are the best.
It's a good sweet and hot dip or slap it on pizza before going in the ooni or whatever and it will caramelise 🤌
In adding these hot sauces aren't you just getting that, and it overpowers all other flavours ?
I get my njuda from "real cute" yeah it's not calabrian but it's bloody tasty.
For heat Mr Vikki s, Mrs 100th finds their tomato ketchup too spicy but the brown sauce is delicious and they have some pretty mouth popping heat bringers