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A1 / Pickapeppa style sauce

portveyn

portveyn

Happy New Year!
 
Do you guys have any experience making not too hot sauces like A1 or Pickapeppa?
Any other brands you tried that are similar?
 
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   I would like to make some "steak" sauce with tomato base and citrus peel involved.
   Maybe some cloves too, but no sugar. Gotta be less sweet than A1 :) And less salty too.
 
 
   Here's some fun info I found on A1, but it's not enough for the recipe: 
   https://www.wired.com/2011/06/st_whatsinside_steaksauce/
 
  Please let me know if any ideas/recipes you know!
  Thank you. 
 
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I know that those sauces like A1 have a ton of weird ingredients but you can google "copycat recipes A1" and you will find it. We have found the recipe for Yoshida's teriyaki sauce before, tweaked it and now we make it all the time, but better. And hotter! That's the cool thing about making your own, you can make it just how you like it.
 
I actually like A1 on a steak, but only like, once every two years. LOL I think it's a "nostalgia flavor".
 
Good luck! And if you land on something you like, take pics of your method and report back!
 
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Try raisins for sweetness and you'll also get the sauce sauce color, flavor, and texture, I've done this, it works well.
 
(Tamarind can play nice too)
 
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Scoville DeVille said:
I know that those sauces like A1 have a ton of weird ingredients but you can google "copycat recipes A1" and you will find it. We have found the recipe for Yoshida's teriyaki sauce before, tweaked it and now we make it all the time, but better. And hotter! That's the cool thing about making your own, you can make it just how you like it.
 
I actually like A1 on a steak, but only like, once every two years. LOL I think it's a "nostalgia flavor".
 
Good luck! And if you land on something you like, take pics of your method and report back!
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A1 on baked potatoes with sour cream :)
 
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I keep a bottle of pickapeppa around but don't really think of it as hotsauce, just brown sauce like HP. Hot Mango pickapeppa on the other hand has at least a noticeable spice, and the flavour is awesome.

Most of those Brown sauces have tamarind in them, it gives them that tangy what is that edge. Other fruits and onions help bump up the sweetness, balanced with a good vinegar bite. Thyme and scotch bonnet could be in there for a sauce resembling pickapeppa
 
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There's another sauce of this type I tried while in Belize: Marie Sharp's Exotic Sauce.  It's quite similar to Pickapeppa with maybe a bit more heat. I've tried making a similar sauce.  Raisin, tamarind and amchur powder get you pretty close to the sweet/tart thing going on with those sauces.
 
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