The New Taste Sensation: Sweets and Sriracha

Some people love Sriracha sauce so much that they’ll try it on anything and everything. The only way to know if flavours work together is to try them. Nowadays, there is a willingness to try just about any flavour combination, even sweets and Sriracha sauce. This acceptance of mixing and combining two or more dissimilar flavours has led to some extremely popular culinary results, including:

• Cheese and apple pie
• Pineapple and pizza
• Chicken and waffles

The details of how these two foods were introduced remain unknown, although many are glad they were. Often, people won’t even consider one food without the other. The key is creating a contrast in taste, for example, two sweet foods merely impart an enhanced sweet flavour. Similarly, blending two spicy tastes won’t produce a unique flavour experience.

Crossing Boundaries

Popular and exciting new flavours seem to be created only when culinary pioneers cross some unspoken boundary and combine two flavours that everyone’s better senses tell them not to mix.

That seems to be when the world arrives at an “aha” moment that changes tastes and introduces a new culinary avenue for the world to explore.

Perhaps one of the first experiments that combines spicy foods with sweet foods is the ancient Mexican molé sauce. This rich sauce combines chilli peppers with dark chocolate and other ingredients to create a complex recipe that’s sweet, slightly bitter and spicy. It’s commonly served with dishes of chicken, beef, and pork.

Sriracha Sauce: A New Frontier

With people embracing the idea of combining sweet foods with spicy Sriracha sauce, an entirely new frontier is opening. The global popularity of Sriracha sauce is rapidly growing as many people are trying it for the first time. Many culinary pioneers are busy experimenting with the fresh, bold flavour in combination with popular sweets, including:

• Spicy Lollipops
• Chocolate Bars and Sriracha sauce
• Sriracha Ice Cream
• Peanut butter cookies with Sriracha sauce
• Candy canes dipped in Sriracha sauce

Why Sweets Work with Sriracha Sauce

Sweet and spicy foods work well together because they offer intense flavour. A mild hot sauce or a simple piece of candy fails to interest most people. The combination of these two intense flavour profiles, however, creates a more complex and interesting taste profile.

The sweetness can balance out the heat from Sriracha, and you taste more of the flavour of the Sriracha sauce and less of the heat. The spice of the Sriracha sauce can also heighten the taste of the sweet and add a unique element to the flavour.

Control is the Key

The key is to control the balance of flavours. It’s rarely satisfying to mix ice cream with Sriracha sauce or bake peanut butter cookies with Sriracha sauce. The result is a different-tasting but unsatisfying sweet dish. However, serving ice cream or cookies with a dish of Sriracha sauce on the side invites your guests to experiment with getting the exact balance of flavours to make it an exceptional taste experience.

Sriracha on ice cream can be drizzled over the top of ice cream and easily adjusted to suit people’s tastes. It doesn’t even have to be Sriracha sauce, providing the spicy side of the flavour combination. Try some Sweet chilli dipping sauce to accompany your next dessert dish.

Experiment with Flying Goose Sriracha Sauce

Flying Goose Brand offers over thirty different Sriracha and other Thai dipping sauces to experiment with. In particular, our mint- or coconut-flavoured Sriracha sauces could add an extra intriguing dimension to your next dessert course.

Explore our range of Sriracha sauces and other Thai products. Choose the ones that elevate your desserts into something memorable and special, and become a culinary pioneer among your friends and family.