Butterfly Bakery Chipotle Squash Hot Sauce Review

Butterfly Bakery Chipotle Squash

If one wanted a sauce that was strongly reminiscent of fall and a warm, comforting hug in a bottle, one would be hard pressed to find one more apropos than this. Once again, Butterfly Bakery comes forth with a work of genius, pairing roasted butternut squash, one of my very favorite fall foods and one that never fails me to drag me back to those chilly and biting nights that heralded both the end of summer and that the harvest was well and truly at hand. Fall has been my favorite time of the year for a very long time and things like that I suspect constitute a significant part of that formation. Add to that the smell of smoke in the air, as people fired up their furnaces or had bonfires, perhaps a last ceremonial hurrah before the bite of winter ended outdoor activities of that nature for another year.

The squash, of course, you could make into nice soup or add to casseroles or perhaps into a sauce for a nice macaroni dish and it’s one of those ingredients that if I ever see it used in a hot sauce, I’m immediately interested, instantly curious to see what they did with it. It is a tad unusual, but here, it is used to glorious effect, along with the pairing of some lovely tomatoes, to add a nice richness and depth, and, of course, the fresh Chipotles that are part of the proceedings. The first ingredient to all of this, it should be noted, is red Serranos, which I’m beginning to think more and more are underrated as a sauce ingredient. 

This sauce has a slight bit of grit from the seeds, but a nice amount of heft to it, creating a quite solid mouth feel. It is also very tame as far as heat, and they laid back a bit on the smoke, so one can use quite a lot of this sauce when experimenting and it is a very good sauce to do that with. The adage that if you make a good enough tasting sauce, the flexibility will be built in still holds true and I think you could have yourself a lovely time just playing around with different food pairings and this sauce, naturally going through all the suggestions on the label, of course. They are once again on the mark here with a truly unique and delicious sauce. 

Bottom line: A very accessible sauce that speaks to me on a number of levels, but with the low heat level, this is one probably more appealing to foodie first chileheads.

Breakdown:

            Heat level: 1
            Flavor: 10
            Flexibility: 8
            Enjoyment to dollar factor: 10

Overall: 7