Nando's Extra Hot Peri-Peri Sauce (2 x 125ml Pack)

by Nando's

Product Features

• A must with chicken and shrimp
• African hot sauce
• South African Food
• A real hot sauce with flavor
• Peri-Peri is the flame of Africa

Product Description

Nando's Peri Peri sauce is unique in flavor, a favorite in South Africa

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0001590PU
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,703 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Flavor - Moderate Heat, May 1, 2009

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L. Prow "QT" (NYC area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nando's Extra Hot Peri-Peri Sauce (2 x 125ml Pack) (Misc.)

I purchased this for my boyfriend who likes hot sauces and spice. He liked this and thought it had a nice flavor, not too much vinegar flavor. I was looking for something different from Tobasco and this fit the bill.

However, my boyfriend said it was not very hot.

He has a fairly good spice tolerance. For example, he asks for Thai and Indian food Hot, I ask for it Mild. I tried some sauce straight and thought it was hot but I have a much lower tolerance. Keep this in mind that if you like things blazing hot (Indian and Thai food made for the locals) it will probably be medium for you. If you eat things mild to medium, it will be hot.

4.0 out of 5 stars Spicy, Versatile & Full of Flavor vs. "Knock-Your-Socks-Off" Hot, September 24, 2011

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Indolent (Ohio, USA/London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nando's Extra Hot Peri-Peri Sauce (2 x 125ml Pack) (Misc.)

First off, can I say that I LOVE Nando's? It's a peri-peri restaurant chain that has many branches worldwide and which I know and love as a favorite standby from the UK, but which has only a couple of branches in the US. Neither of those branches are within even a thousand miles of my home in Ohio, so my Nando's fixes are very few and far between. I love that their peri-peri sauces are available in the US, and buy them whenever I can as an all-purpose condiment to serve with anything and everything that could do with a bit of spicing up.

Secondly... while I LOVE these sauces, even the "extra hot" version doesn't even begin to come close to some of the sauces that real chili-heads will be used to, i.e. the ones that rate so high on the Scoville scale that you're advised to only add them to your food one minuscule drip at a time. Nando's sauces are more of the "slosh generously all over your plate" variety if you have any kind of a taste and tolerance for the burny stuff, and I tend to use it more like ketchup than a genuine "hot" sauce. That's not meant as an insult to the sauces, though - don't get me wrong, I really do love them, but I get through a whole lot more of this stuff than I do the dangerously hot sauces I buy almost entirely for the burn. Nando's peri-peri sauces are just not like that; they're meant to be enjoyed for their complex flavor rather than as a challenge, so please don't buy a bottle of this stuff expecting to have your head blown off with a single taste.

I love the Nando's Extra Hot and Hot sauces as a dip for fries and anything else that requires dunking, and it is also a firm favorite in my household when mixed liberally with a bit of mayo and/or sour cream for a spicy dipping sauce that works well with appetizers of all kinds. It works really well as a marinade for chicken, too - definitely one to try when you're grilling out.

My only "problem" (and it's not really a problem, as such) is that I get through these little bottles far too quickly. Anyone who's ever been to a Nando's restaurant will know that customers can take as many HUGE bottles (I mean, containing maybe 2-3 pints) of peri-peri sauce in any and every strength and flavor variation back to their table to apply as freely to their meal as they wish. When I try that at home I find I've emptied a $5 bottle of sauce before I know it. I just wish they'd start making it available in stores in industrial-sized bottles for dedicated Nando-lovers such as myself!

Finally, if you ever find yourself in a city that has a Nando's restaurant, I'd heartily recommend that you go along and try it out. Order some peri-peri chicken to suit your own personal chili tolerance level, a Portuguese or Brazilian beer and (my personal favorite) a bowl of their spicy mixed nuts to munch on while you wait for your order (these are SERIOUSLY hot and I love them so very, very much) and, well... enjoy! :)

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't get enough, October 20, 2009

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YVashee (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nando's Extra Hot Peri-Peri Sauce (2 x 125ml Pack) (Misc.)

Great to see the Xtra Hot available through Amazon as it was out of stock on Nando site. My family and I love the extra hot.. we can't get enough. You can be fooled as initially it does not feel hot, however a couple more bites and it gets you.