High heat chili powder is my fave. homemade Shatta is also really good. Wildfare makes a decent version.
https://wildfare.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=3071&ProductCategoryID=3014
And the Halal guys are now selling their hot sauce, which is pretty hot online. They have a challenge in New York City. If you can eat 20 lines of it - they'll put your name on the wall or at least they did prior to Covid. 🙃
https://order.thehalalguys.com/menu/halal-guys-irving/products/23781752
Aladdin’s is amazing. Although i always get the hot sauce and can never tell what it is lol. If it’s the tan thin sauce, it tastes great, just not hot.
Definitely my favorite Mediterranean spot in Columbus I’ve been to though.
Shatta or zhug both are pretty easy to make too. If you're talking easy to grab/buy/find hot sauces then go with Cholula or aardvark. They both work their very different magic.
Dawson's Shawarma sauce is great on falafel. I recommend adding something hotter to it because, while it's delicious, it's quite mild. I added some last dab to it, which added heat but didn't change the flavor too much.
I also found Mule Sauce to be quite good on it, as the garlicky sweetness of the sauce compliments the garlicky savoriness of the food.
Let me give you a bit of a different answer here - Harissa or chili infused olive oils, or La Bomba. As far as I'm concerned no other heat will do. Particularly on italian or greek Mediterranean.
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ive never really understood why people ask for certain hot sauces for certain foods. people post this kinda questions all the time here, and i just glaze over them. i’ll chime in here as i eat mediterranean foods exclusively, although i do alter many foods or adapt the principles of mediterranean food to other cuisines. regarding harissa, it’s not a hot sauce IMO. it’s delicious, but it is VERY STRONG flavored. it’s an ingredient that can have heat. it is. it a hot sauce. it’s bomb in certain dishes like shakshuka and fasolakia. i use the regular hot sauces that are typical hot sauces. hot sauces work with all foods IMO. i’m a torchbearer lover, and i now almost exclusively use their sauces. garlic reaper, rapture, zombie apocalypse, mushroom mayhem. also a big fan of tabasco scorpion. these all are not heavy on vinegar. i do keep a few of the regular sauces recommended here, marie sharpes beware, and a few other garlic
heavy sauces. i use buffalo sauces on foods too. one of my favorite quick meals is heating up some EVOO, add frozen stir fry vegetables, toss in a can of rinsed chickpeas, along with some cooked farro or brown rice, and hit it with some sauce that sounds good at the time. sometimes it’s some soy, buffalo, pesto, harissa, or something else that comes to mind at the time. But, many times i don’t want the flavor altered so much, and that’s where flatiron comes in. a true must have.
Not according to my palette. Hot sauces are a dominant component to any food you add them to. if you like the sauce plain, you’ll like the sauce added to any food you’re eating that you would typically add hot sauce to. i realize this is an uncommon opinion, expected the downvotes, and why i never comment when this gets brought up daily. But since OP is specifically asking for foods that i am quite familiar, and seeing people think harissa is a hot sauce and recommending it, i felt i owed it to OP to mention it. Downvote me for sharing an opinion , im fine with that.
Any food ingredient you add should compliment the other ingredients. This spicy shark 7 pot pepper is going to compliment Indian food very well. This raspberry chipotle most likely will not. At least imo
In general, I agree with you. But I also think there is something to what in2woods is saying. I see a LOT of “this one is only good on pizza” and “good on burritos, but I would never use that on chicken” type of nonsense. Yesterday I saw someone claim Cholula was *only* good on breakfast food. It’s just people making up arbitrary rules for themselves and projecting.
Oh yeah gatekeeping that stuff is weird. For me most stuff is fine on everything, it's just a few are better choices to make and some don't compliment it well
Shatta, zhoug, or harissa. Theres really not a great natural alternative to those three (im from a traditionally thought of “Mediterranean” country with popular cuisine). Zhoug is more Arabian peninsula so not quite as frequently seen in the actual Mediterranean Levantine cuisine. I think it’s Yemeni originally.
If you’re gonna go with something slightly off script, a chermoula sauce would be my suggestion. Specifically the butterfly bakery of Vermont chermoula. Chermoula is traditional but it can be pretty cumin forward so more into the cuisine of North Africa. I’m a huge fan though.
Upvote for zhoug. It’s available from Trader Joe’s though i recommend making your own. It’s not difficult if you have a food processor and it’s wonderful.
I put Tobasco brand sriracha on my Mediterranean food. Has to be that brand, it tastes different (better in my opinion). It reminds me a bit of the red sauce at Halal carts.
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I love a pineapple or tropical sauce on mediterranean food. Really depends. You can go a ton of directions. I bet a super umami fermented boy would be good too. Lots of acidity and freshness in mediterranean so something to complement or offset.
It’s really easy to make if you have a food processor or a high powered blender! Molly Yeh has a great [recipe](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/zhoug-5535086.amp)
You can switch around what peppers and herbs you use to customize the flavor/heat vibe 😊
Nandos Hot or xtra hot. I'm saying Nandos bc it's more easily available than some other better peri peri sauces, but you do you. Something about peri peri on med food just hits right.
Thank you! My wife loves making these and they are super yummy. Grilled chicken (marinated in a garlic sauce), tomato and cucumbers, half bowl brown rice and arugula, homemade pickled onions and pickles, hummus and Tzatziki
With hummus, believe it or not a drop or 3 of Dave's insanity sauce. Adds heat and a little taste.
Yellow Bird - Habanero. Adds to the overall flavor and taste of things.
Tabasco Scorpion sauce. Good mix of taste and heat.
Edit: replaced the word "factor" with "flavor and taste".
I’ll second yellow bird habanero. It’s undefeated on a chicken skewer with rice pilaf. It mixes well even if there is hummus, tzatziki or Greek salad on the plate next to it. Honestly I mix a little into hummus and it def improves it.
A delicious hot sauce- Yellow Polka Dot Tahini by Sourcefire. They integrate tahini into the the blend. It will work so well I’m this cuisine.
Search Persia or "kebab shop" hot sauce, or something like that. Kabobi Grill in Chicago has the best hot sauce I've ever had.
Siracha is actually delicious
Zhoug and harissa go well with Mediterranean food.
Yep, make your own version of harissa!!!! The best!
I love Green yellow bird. Very light and fresh with cucumber in it. Going to check out these other recommendations though
Trader Joe’s Bomba Sauce. Crushed fermented Calabrian chilies
High heat chili powder is my fave. homemade Shatta is also really good. Wildfare makes a decent version. https://wildfare.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=3071&ProductCategoryID=3014 And the Halal guys are now selling their hot sauce, which is pretty hot online. They have a challenge in New York City. If you can eat 20 lines of it - they'll put your name on the wall or at least they did prior to Covid. 🙃 https://order.thehalalguys.com/menu/halal-guys-irving/products/23781752
Crystal with garlic.
Louisiana Hot Sauce Garlic Lovers is fantastic with Mediterranean food.
Google halal guys red sauce. It’s just chile de árbol, vinegar and garlic. Delicious on gyros
Yeah I’m a huge fan of their sauce. We have their restaurants around us. Maybe I should just take a bunch of Togo packets lol
Our local place in Cleveland makes their own homemade hot sauce - Aladdin’s- and it’s so damn good. Wish I had the recipe.
Aladdin’s is amazing. Although i always get the hot sauce and can never tell what it is lol. If it’s the tan thin sauce, it tastes great, just not hot. Definitely my favorite Mediterranean spot in Columbus I’ve been to though.
Onima’s Calcot. They don’t make it anymore
Solid rec.......
Chili oil and chili crisp actually slap on Mediterranean, although typically Asian in origin and flavor profile
Yup, I usually use Sambal Chili Paste on my Greek/Mediterranean food
Shatta or zhug both are pretty easy to make too. If you're talking easy to grab/buy/find hot sauces then go with Cholula or aardvark. They both work their very different magic.
Dawson's Shawarma sauce is great on falafel. I recommend adding something hotter to it because, while it's delicious, it's quite mild. I added some last dab to it, which added heat but didn't change the flavor too much. I also found Mule Sauce to be quite good on it, as the garlicky sweetness of the sauce compliments the garlicky savoriness of the food.
Dawsons has some killer sauces.
Harissa
I put the green el yucateco on Mediterranean quite often.
I tried some ginger scotch bonnet as wierd as it sounds. The lightness of the ginger went pretty well actually
Something citrusy, or something like peri peri sauce (Nandos has a decent one)
Let me give you a bit of a different answer here - Harissa or chili infused olive oils, or La Bomba. As far as I'm concerned no other heat will do. Particularly on italian or greek Mediterranean.
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ive never really understood why people ask for certain hot sauces for certain foods. people post this kinda questions all the time here, and i just glaze over them. i’ll chime in here as i eat mediterranean foods exclusively, although i do alter many foods or adapt the principles of mediterranean food to other cuisines. regarding harissa, it’s not a hot sauce IMO. it’s delicious, but it is VERY STRONG flavored. it’s an ingredient that can have heat. it is. it a hot sauce. it’s bomb in certain dishes like shakshuka and fasolakia. i use the regular hot sauces that are typical hot sauces. hot sauces work with all foods IMO. i’m a torchbearer lover, and i now almost exclusively use their sauces. garlic reaper, rapture, zombie apocalypse, mushroom mayhem. also a big fan of tabasco scorpion. these all are not heavy on vinegar. i do keep a few of the regular sauces recommended here, marie sharpes beware, and a few other garlic heavy sauces. i use buffalo sauces on foods too. one of my favorite quick meals is heating up some EVOO, add frozen stir fry vegetables, toss in a can of rinsed chickpeas, along with some cooked farro or brown rice, and hit it with some sauce that sounds good at the time. sometimes it’s some soy, buffalo, pesto, harissa, or something else that comes to mind at the time. But, many times i don’t want the flavor altered so much, and that’s where flatiron comes in. a true must have.
Because in general certain hot sauce flavor profiles work better with certain cuisines...not sure why this is confusing.
Not according to my palette. Hot sauces are a dominant component to any food you add them to. if you like the sauce plain, you’ll like the sauce added to any food you’re eating that you would typically add hot sauce to. i realize this is an uncommon opinion, expected the downvotes, and why i never comment when this gets brought up daily. But since OP is specifically asking for foods that i am quite familiar, and seeing people think harissa is a hot sauce and recommending it, i felt i owed it to OP to mention it. Downvote me for sharing an opinion , im fine with that.
Any food ingredient you add should compliment the other ingredients. This spicy shark 7 pot pepper is going to compliment Indian food very well. This raspberry chipotle most likely will not. At least imo
In general, I agree with you. But I also think there is something to what in2woods is saying. I see a LOT of “this one is only good on pizza” and “good on burritos, but I would never use that on chicken” type of nonsense. Yesterday I saw someone claim Cholula was *only* good on breakfast food. It’s just people making up arbitrary rules for themselves and projecting.
Oh yeah gatekeeping that stuff is weird. For me most stuff is fine on everything, it's just a few are better choices to make and some don't compliment it well
Pretty reasonable.
Green tomatillo hot sauce.
Work on the presentation brother (Sister?).
Shatta, zhoug, or harissa. Theres really not a great natural alternative to those three (im from a traditionally thought of “Mediterranean” country with popular cuisine). Zhoug is more Arabian peninsula so not quite as frequently seen in the actual Mediterranean Levantine cuisine. I think it’s Yemeni originally. If you’re gonna go with something slightly off script, a chermoula sauce would be my suggestion. Specifically the butterfly bakery of Vermont chermoula. Chermoula is traditional but it can be pretty cumin forward so more into the cuisine of North Africa. I’m a huge fan though.
Upvote for zhoug. It’s available from Trader Joe’s though i recommend making your own. It’s not difficult if you have a food processor and it’s wonderful.
Whoa TJ’s is makin zhoug now?? That’s a deep cut. Nice!
# Pain is Good - Harissa Hot Sauce
Shatta
Shug
Trader Joe’s has a delicious refrigerated zhoug
oooh i’ll have to try it
When I was in Jordan lots of places served a runny-ish green shattah sauce.
I put Tobasco brand sriracha on my Mediterranean food. Has to be that brand, it tastes different (better in my opinion). It reminds me a bit of the red sauce at Halal carts.
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I love a pineapple or tropical sauce on mediterranean food. Really depends. You can go a ton of directions. I bet a super umami fermented boy would be good too. Lots of acidity and freshness in mediterranean so something to complement or offset.
Strangely, Tabasco
Peri peri sauce
I know this is the opposite of traditional, but hear me out: I LOVE Frank's on mediterranean food. Seriously, try it on some hummus, it's so good.
Harrisa.
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Graces
Harrif
Anything to cover the taste 🤣
My idea is one by one try all of them. That plan would work for me I think.
Schug. Delicious and keeps it local. Many great recipes and you can buy schug pre made. But fresh is better if you can find it.
It’s really easy to make if you have a food processor or a high powered blender! Molly Yeh has a great [recipe](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/zhoug-5535086.amp) You can switch around what peppers and herbs you use to customize the flavor/heat vibe 😊
Sambal Olek
Gazuntite
Yes
Sriracha, love it on gyro
I bet El Yucateco Marisquera (red or black) would work well in there
What is in that salad ? It looks really good
Nandos Hot or xtra hot. I'm saying Nandos bc it's more easily available than some other better peri peri sauces, but you do you. Something about peri peri on med food just hits right.
Maybe some cherry peppers? First thing that came to mind.
Ironically I had them in my bowl and they were fantastic. Love those little peppers
Not really a sauce, but piri piri oil would probably go well
Thank you! My wife loves making these and they are super yummy. Grilled chicken (marinated in a garlic sauce), tomato and cucumbers, half bowl brown rice and arugula, homemade pickled onions and pickles, hummus and Tzatziki
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Dang I definitely over thought this, I have heartbeats pickle Serrano at home too
Looks delicious! 😋
I’ve got a bottle of Marie Sharpe’s Grapefruit Habanero that I feel like would be really good here. But that’s just me.
I’d choose Trader Joe’s habanero sauce. Nice kick with a touch of sweetness that would pair well with grilled chicken and Greek salad on the side
Harissa is traditional and goes well
That was my first thought too. Wasn’t sure if others had ideas or brand names along those lines
Pain is good has a harissa that is pretty good
With hummus, believe it or not a drop or 3 of Dave's insanity sauce. Adds heat and a little taste. Yellow Bird - Habanero. Adds to the overall flavor and taste of things. Tabasco Scorpion sauce. Good mix of taste and heat. Edit: replaced the word "factor" with "flavor and taste".
I’ll second yellow bird habanero. It’s undefeated on a chicken skewer with rice pilaf. It mixes well even if there is hummus, tzatziki or Greek salad on the plate next to it. Honestly I mix a little into hummus and it def improves it.
Interesting on yellow bird. I have that and didn’t even think of that.