Product: WorldFoods Thai Sweet Chili Sauce with Kaffir Lime Sauce – $3.99+
Finding a Thai sweet chili sauce that is also gluten-free isn’t as easy as it sounds. But I was making a Vegetable Pad Thai for dinner and it called for a Thai sweet chili sauce. I got online the night before heading out to grocery shop and found one particular brand that was basically available everywhere. The problem was…I couldn’t find it anywhere. The shelves were picked clean of it. Sure, there would be the spot where it should have been, but it wasn’t there and none were in stock.
It was at my final grocery stop at the day that I found myself in Whole Foods and in the Asian cuisine section. Once again, the brand I had looked up was sold out. Empty spot at the shelf just mocking me. But my roommate spotted another sweet chili sauce on the shelf from WorldFoods. It was even labeled gluten-free (YAY!). While this one also had kaffir lime added to it, we went ahead and got it. After all, the recipe called for lime juice anyway, so this would only add to that flavor.
What we didn’t expect was to fall in love with this sauce…which is exactly what happened.
This stir-fry/dipping sauce was fantastic. It has a nice heat from the spicy red chillies that are blended in with kaffir lime and lemon grass. This adds a nice tang to the heat, a counter-balance, if you will, that paired beautifully with the Vegetable Pad Thai and all the other components that were mixed in. My roommate and I loved this sauce so much, we garnished each of our bowls with a drizzle of it over the top. Honestly. The perfect heat for the prepared dish. The lime really adds to the flavor and makes the sauce stand out without taking away from the other components of the dish. It does, however, add that much needed spice that I love in my Asian food.
I’m already coming up with other dishes I can supplement this sauce into, including marinating some tofu in it for a random dish that I could easily throw together one evening after work. Yeah…this sauce is spicy sweet and delicious. I think I sense another jar being purchased in the very near future.
The Celiathlete 