Amazon Green Hot Sauce Review

Amazon Green Hot Sauce 

Like the Hot'N Sweet Mango sauce I reviewed not too long ago, this was part of a 4 pack I got to kick my order into free shipping. This one, with the Salsa Amazon Verde label, instantly brought to mind something along the lines of chili verde, which is sorely tempting me to make now, actually, but checking out the bottle, it is the wrong color thing and the wrong consistency entirely.

On the back of the box, there is an amusing blurb (most of the sauces have something interesting enough to read once in the blurb section) by some guy from Reader's Digest, who called this the best hot sauce he'd ever tried, which some heat, but not too hot. Despite that tepid endorsement (I would usually consider Reader's Digest fairly low on the list of sources I would trust for hot sauce), what we have here is not a bad little find. It's by no means great, either, though and certainly not competition, either heat-wise or taste-wise, for some of the ringers on my Standard List.

What we do have here amounts to basically a Louisiana-style sauce by way of Columbia (like all the Amazon brand sauces) using Amazon peppers instead of Cayenne, Tabasco or Jalapeno. It is maybe slightly hotter than regular Tabasco, though not greatly and the flavoring is different, of course, due to the use of the Amazon peppers instead of any of those others. I found it to be a pretty good change of pace, yet familiar enough to be comfortable and it's something I wouldn't mind eating again. It is not, however, even remotely a game-changer or anything I would consider best of anything, except for maybe best "Louisiana-style sauce by way of Columbia using Amazon peppers", mostly because it would have no direct competition for that title.

Bottom line: As Louisiana-styles are among some of my consistent favorites, I liked this sauce considerably in that it can be used interchangeably with any of those, has an ok amount of heat and has a generally good taste. It's nothing I have to have, by any means, but I'm enjoying what's here and so far, it is by far the best of the lot for the Amazon box, which is now 1-1 with 2 more sauces to go.

Breakdown:

          Heat level: 3
          Flavor: 7
          Flexibility: 7
          Enjoyment to dollar factor: 6

Overall: 6