Here lies Fogo De Chao Malagueta –
8.3/10
I don’t remember where I first met this sauce. Apparently, you can get it at the restaurants themselves, or Instacart! I wrote down that I got this sauce for only $1.99, which is an AMAZING price for this. I’ve never been before, but the menu looks solid, albeit a little expensive. If you’re unfamiliar, Fogo De Chao is a Brazilian steakhouse, known for carving the fire-cooked meats right there at the table for the customers. According to the interwebs, you can buy all-you-can-eat meat and salad bar. The fried plantains look delicious (chime in the comments)! Saúde, lets get into the review!
REVIEW: This sauce is really simple, and thus makes it easily applicable to mostly everything you’d want to put a bright and tangy sauce on. The heat comes punching straight out the gate, not building too much. I had this sauce in January, and I’m still able to recall the taste of this one like I had it this morning. It is quite reminiscent of Tabasco, and I mean that in the best of ways. It’s really vinegar forward and adds a huge pop of flavor since I’d say there are more peppers to vinegar ratio, and is about twice as much heat as that comparison. When I review sauces, I usually only put them on my breakfast burritos, but for this one I decided to try it on a chicken salad, and also got some naked wings and covered them in this. My mouth is LITERALLY watering thinking about that. This sauce is thin, no chunks, no granules. No sweetness at all. The only downside I can imagine people having towards this sauce is either the soybean oil or the xanthan gum, which i think is minimally used in there. I was so pleasantly surprised at this, and I would use this as a staple if it were more easily accessible during my grocery runs. Rest in Peace, Spicy Prince
Feel free to recommend your favorite malagueta based sauce, suggest your favorite dish at Fogo De Chao, or tell us your experience with this sauce!
Ingredients:Â WHITE WINE VINEGAR, MALAGUETA PEPPERS WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, XANTHAN GUM, SODIUM BENZOATE AND POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVES).
by SecuritySky
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Thanks for the review – I didn’t know they had their own hot sauce, and that price is crazy cheap. I’ve been trying to source malaguetas to make my own hot sauce but haven’t had any luck.
I went to a Fogo de Chao’s many years ago. It was in Chicago in August – the temps were around 110 and the humidity was something like 70-80%.
They gave each person a little sign on the table that you can flip to show if you want more meat or not. If you indicate you want more, they just keep bringing different meats to you and cutting off pieces onto your plate.
I was determined to try every single meat (they had something like 40+), and I accomplished my goal….this was after hitting their amazing salad bar pretty hard.
I remember walking out into the miserable heat stuffed beyond belief, and making the ~1 mile walk back to our hotel.
That was some suffering I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Good times!
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