Seattle’s Best Locally-Made Sauces and Condiments

 It is time. Swap out that pathetic bottle of pre-pandemic Heinz for some Seattle-made condiments. The advantages are twofold: Your meals receives a taste enhance and helps native companies. Learn on for fermentation fanatics, a chili crisp with a cult following, and proof that Seattle’s scorching sauce increase is alive and effectively.

What’s Your Sauce

Ketchup and Mustard / Scorching Sauce / Pickles, Relishes, and Fermented Goodness / Barbecue Sauce / The Levantine Pantry / Dips and Sauces 

Ketchup and Mustard

Mustard and Co.

This Ballard mustard maker creates greater than a half-dozen flavors, from honey curry, to garlic dill, to pink miso. Protecting the mustard seed intact offers it that nostril tingling, horseradishy punch solely present in probably the most artisanal, charcuterie-board-ready, mustards. It’s bought in loads of locations round city, together with Marketime in Fremont, Metropolitan Markets, and DeLaurenti Meals and Wine. 

Bear’s Breath

Kilter Meals shakes up ketchup, a reasonably standardized condiment, with a barely spicy end. That additional kick goes a protracted technique to elevate burgers, fries, even bloody marys. (Heads up, vegetarians, it’s made with hen broth.) You possibly can nab a bottle on Amazon.

Scorching Sauce

Scorching Dame!

Amy Weems first conceived of this sauce within the kitchen of St. Dames. Whereas the incredible South Seattle restaurant is gone, the title is not less than partly immortalized in its flagship pepper sauce—pink, smoky, tangy, and naturally, scorching—and in its milder counterpart, the noble inexperienced pepper sauce. Get your arms on some at Ken’s Market Queen Anne and Cone and Steiner.

FireFlower Sauce

Branded because the “All the pieces Sauce,” FireFlower’s three piquant scorching sauces in descending spiciness order are: Native Hang-out (ghost pepper and beet), Hotsy-Totsy (habanero and carrot), and Important Squeeze (jalapeno and tomatillo). Bottles have taken up residence in some native taprooms just like the Beer Authority in Lake Metropolis.  

Haxan Ferments

Proprietor Jessica Huszar, beforehand a molecular biologist, now applies that background to  fermenting subtle scorching sauces and vinegars which combine regional, seasonal elements, like pumpkin habanero and smokey espresso mole. Drop by Huszar’s stand at quite a few farmers markets (Ballard, College District, and so forth), or choose some up at Ken’s Market Greenwood.

Mike’s Tremendous Brines

Michael Callahan’s eponymous scorching sauce is the type that will get a lot use it by no means will get put again within the cupboard; the versatile line options habanero, poblano inexperienced, chipotle black pepper, and ghost pepper. The black and white labels of the Ballard model are a standard sight at loads of native markets, like Take 5, High Banana, and Marketime. 

Papa Tony’s Scorching Sauce

Tony Wilson based his operation in New Orleans, however moved to West Seattle somewhat over a yr in the past, bringing alongside a incredible mango habanero scorching sauce, the results of pandemic experimentation. These days, you may spot his sauce brood—garlic habanero, ghost pepper garlic, and a scorpion sauce barely sweetened with strawberries—on the West Seattle farmers market each week. 

Scorching Jawn

This up and coming chili sauce is the brainchild of scorching sauce fanatic Joe Norris. Someplace in between buffalo and Sriracha, the distinctive condiment needs to be utilized liberally to wings, pizza, and tacos. Scorching Jawn continues to be new on the scene, so shopping for on-line or frequenting the South Lake Union Saturday market each different week is your finest wager. 

Bonache

These Ballard-based sauces are a standard sight on native restaurant tables and are a Seattle grocery retailer staple in their very own proper. The flagship sauce, a medium warmth habanero, blends peppers with carrot and lime juice. 

Pickles, Relishes, and Fermented Goodness

Firefly Kitchens

Founder Julie O’Brien embraces all issues fermented, with multitudes of kraut, kimchi, and curtido to select from. The yin yang carrots or the ruby pink kraut are good crunchy additions to salads or sandwiches, and have the additional bonus of enhancing intestine well being. Plus, they’re broadly accessible at native grocery shops.

Seattle Pickle Co.

These Georgetown brine professionals provide up dill pickles, dill relish, beets, and inexperienced beans, with a pair spicy iterations obtainable as effectively. Cease by Marketime or DeLaurenti Meals and Wine for some pickle perusal. 

Hero Condiments

Packed in small batches in Georgetown, this giardiniera mixes candy peppers with each contemporary and brined veggies, freed from GMOs. Douse it on scorching canine, tacos, eggs, burgers, or anything in want of some zesty crunch, and discover a jar at nearly any native grocery retailer, huge or small.

Britt’s Fermented Meals

Previously Britt’s Pickles, the well-known Whidbey Island fermenter acquired a brand new title—and a few life saving monetary backing–when Britt Fletcher joined founder Britt Eustis. Fortunately for longtime followers, they didn’t abandon the meticulous oak barrel fermentation methodology, so the kimchi, sauerkraut and pickles nonetheless retain their trademark crunch. Discover them in PCCs, each Ken’s Markets, and Central Co-op. 

Barbecue Sauce

Lillie’s Ardour

Claire Charles’s West Seattle operation churns out vegan barbecue and pepper sauces that pay homage to her Caribbean roots and her beloved aunt, Lillie. And the entire elements are grown in her backyard, so her merchandise are about as hardcore home made as they arrive. You should buy Lillie’s on-line or at a number of markets together with Peace Peloton, South Park Swap Meet (SPASM for brief), and Georgetown Trailer Park.

Richard’s Too Good

Seattle isn’t precisely identified for its barbecue tradition, however pitmaster Richard Mullen goals to alter that together with his daring gluten-free sauce. The Black-owned enterprise additionally doubles as a catering service (a wonderful alternative to see the sauce in motion), or you may choose up a bottle at Double DD Meats in Mountlake Terrace.

BBQ Pete’s

Each September since 1976 on the Puyallup Honest, you’ll see the Kent restaurant’s well-known log cabin serving up piles of smoked meats (totaling 50,000 kilos) drenched with their embellished sauces like Zesty BBQ or the signature Puyallup Honest sauce. If the Honest is an excessive amount of of a dedication, Marketime additionally carries a pair flavors.

The Levantine Pantry

Damoori Kitchen

The Lebanese cafe and market in Magnolia makes its personal hummus, baba ghanoush, labneh (with or with out za’atar), tzatziki, and muhammara. They’re all primarily based off of chef and co-owner Andrea Matni-Ryan’s tried-and-true household recipes. 

Ziva Mediterranean Meals

The Rainier Valley–made hummus is out there in unique, roasted garlic, and lemon at High Banana, Leschi Market, and Bert’s Crimson Apple, to call a number of. Hold an eye fixed out for his or her elusive Ballard and Proctor farmers market–unique inexperienced chickpea hummus too. 

Villa Jerada

Native (and nationwide) cooks depend on Mehdi Boujrada’s deep lineup of Levantine and Moroccan pantry staples like harissa, tahini, and chermoula. Just a few of her merchandise are at DeLaurenti and Met Markets.

Mamnoon Tremendous Meals by Nadi Mama

The oldsters behind Levantine eating places Mamnoon and Mbar additionally produce their very own  hummus, baba ghanoush, basal labneh, and harra, a Lebanese scorching sauce. Their merchandise are stocked at most Seattle grocery chains plus extra curated ones reminiscent of Cone and Steiner. 

Dips and Sauces 

Rub with Love

James Beard winner and prolific restaurateur Tom Douglas leads a double life as a sauce and rub proprietor. His broadly obtainable Rub with Love line consists of quite a few rubs (duh) plus toasted shallot mustard, ancho molasses barbecue sauce, and a ginger pineapple teriyaki sauce.

KariKari

Of their tiny Capitol Hill residence, Ruby Sparks and Rob Griset created a chili crisp fawned over by the likes of J. Kenji López-Alt. Concurrently crunchy, spicy, garlicky, and candy, it pairs effectively with meat, noodles, soups, and ice cream (however a spoonful straight out of the jar is simply fantastic too). You’ll spy it at Marketime and different neighborhood grocers, together with dozens of posh pantry locations like Sugar Capsule and the Whale Wins. 

Fuse TemptAsian Sauces

Fuse started as a Pan-Asian restaurant in Vancouver, CA, and launched TemptAsian to capitalize on the wild recognition of its house-made sauces. The line of thai peanut, honey cilantro, lemongrass soy, and sesame ginger are stocked at Met Markets and Double DD Meats.  

That Brown Woman Cooks!

Chef Kristi Brown has stepped into the nationwide highlight since opening her restaurant Communion, however she was already a neighborhood celeb by means of her deeply scrumptious black-eyed pea hummus. It is on the menu at her busy restaurant, but additionally normally on the market in a cooler by the entrance door.

Umami Kushi

Earlier than Harold Fields began making his irresistible ozaku pan, he gained us over together with his  yuzu kosho. His model of the Japanese condiment includes cured shishito peppers, jalapenos, yuzu juice, and salt. Each pink and inexperienced varieties are seasonally obtainable on-line and promote out fast. 

Karam’s Garlic Sauce

A decade after Karam’s Lebanese Delicacies closed on Capitol Hill, its signature garlic sauce lives on in PCCs and Central Co-op, amongst others. It is filled with garlic, positive, but additionally has refined notes of lemon, olive oil, salt, and pepper; use it as a marinade, dressing, dip, condiment, etcetera, for nearly any meals. 

Ivar’s Tartar Sauce

It’s disturbing to even ponder Seattle fish and chips with out Ivar’s iconic candy, tart, and creamy mix. You possibly can choose up a jar of your personal at Safeway—simply don’t neglect the lemon wedges. 

Salsa De Rosa

Primarily based in Redmond, De Rosa affords contemporary salsas, together with the gentle El Nino, medium La Vieja, and scorching El Hombre which are bought at PCCs, Entire Meals, and Safeways within the space.