Strong hot flavours are something that I have worked with through the range and special brand "Chili Viking". My son challenged me to come up with a really strong chilli sauce and my answer was: Ragnarök. It is mainly made from the Carolina Reaper, the world's strongest chili fruit (around two million on the Scoville scale). To this I add some Dorset Naga (Ghostpepper) and Habanero Big Sun as well as some herbs, garlic and vinegar. With a primordial power drawn from the golden halls of Valhall and with tastefully designed tastefulness plucked from the side of Yggdrasil. Together with the growing heat of the Carolina Reaper, this provides a dynamic taste experience that not only burns in the mouth…
Ragnarök, "Twilight of the Gods", is the end of the earth in Old Norse mythology and someone has described the taste of my chili sauce "like when the Fenris wolf breaks free from his shackles and devours the sun", another described the taste "as if Thor hits with his hammer - inside the throat”. A third taste test read: "It's like local anaesthesia - in a good way..." Feel free to taste it yourself, but be careful with the dosage - the end of the earth should be experienced in the right doses...
Should be around the million on the Scoville? A Louisiana-type sauce, with vinegar.⠀
So, the chili sauce - what's its history? Researchers have looked at the history of the word itself to see where the fruit chili first began to be cultivated. Now we know that the chili pepper began to be cultivated already 6500 years ago in Mexico and that the word pepper entered the Swedish language around the year 1420.
Chili, however, is a relatively new phenomenon both in our language and in Swedish cuisine, and the word was introduced through chili sauce in 1946. The word "chili" itself comes from Oto-Azteki around 1500 years ago and Oto-Manguen already 6500 years ago, and has then which then entered the Swedish language through Spanish. In western Mexico, beans and corn have long been grown, and it was believed that chilies came from there.
The word chili also existed in languages spoken in Nicaragua and Honduras around 800 BC. And it is precisely through the roots of different languages that it can now be shown that chili first began to be cultivated further south in Mexico, around a triangle between Puebla, Oaxaca and Veracruz. After all, it was Columbus who brought chili over to Europe and it became a very popular spice here.
But even then, the Aztecs and the Incas had already spread the chili all the way to southern North America. After Columbus, Portuguese and Spanish then carried the spice on to the colonies and trading places in Asia, Africa and India. And in this way it spread around the world and less than a hundred years later the chili was cultivated in southern and eastern Europe. At the end of the 16th century, it was cultivated in almost all of southern Europe. So a long journey. From seed and then around the world to finally give you an unforgettable taste experience!
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120 g heat/bottle
Ingredients: Carolina Reaper, Apple Cider Vinegar, Naga Jolokia (Ghostpepper), Habanero, Garlic, Vinegar, Salt, Lovage, Basil
Nutrition100g: Energy 133 kJ/31 kcal; Fat 0.2 g (saturated fat 0 g); Carbohydrates 5.2 g (sugars 3 g); Protein 1.1 g; Salt 0.95 g
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