Encona Original Hot Pepper Sauce

What the bottle says...
For over forty years, Encona Hot Pepper Sauce has been prepared in the Caribbean using only freshly picked Scotch Bonnet and Habanero peppers, combined with locally blended island spices. This, the original Caribbean hot pepper sauce, is equally delicious as a condiment with chicken, meat, fish and vegetables, or used to add a touch of tropical spice to every meal.

What we say...
A great value, great tasting Scotch Bonnet sauce, bursting with heat and flavour.

Country of origin: Caribbean

Ingredients: Scotch Bonnet & Habanero peppers, spirit vinegar, onion, salt, corn starch, spices

142ml bottle

Price: £1.79

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Product Reviews

Submited By: rick pearson
WARNING!!! this hot sauce is highly addictive, you may find yourself experimenting with all aspects of your diet in particular the blander side. Goes great with wraps, chicken wings, even vegetarian Qusine can become palatable with this flavour giving condiment. You may find your self craving the sting that original encona has to offer, but its not just fire in a bottle its also as versatile as salt. Next time you make a soup or an omlette or anything you might look for a flavour enhancer or (pep) ditch the salt and use a few drops of this bad boy. It can be pleasant or it can be painfull you decide.

Submited By: Stephen Mason
So, my current hot sauce "collaboration" is a huge success! I empty 3 of the 220 ml jars (from elsewhere) of this into a bowl. I then add 1 jar of naga/jolokia paste (bought from scorchio) to this. Mix thouroughly ! Pour back into jars. As noted on here, the naga paste is brutal, it also has a very overpowering fruity taste. The high vinegary thaste of the encona sauce helps to mask the naga. Perfect combo, still taste likes the encona, but with a naga fruit taste too. Heat is severe but tolerable (mouth, lips, tongue & throat burn) , if your used to extreme heat that is, and not recommended otherwise. Works out as £2/50 ish per 220 ml jar.

Submited By: David Yelland
Everyone like a bit of Encona. If you are buying from shops in the UK where not much is available it is a nice alternative to Cholula. I prefer Cholula, but Encona is a fruity, sharp taste as opposed to the deep smoky taste of Cholula. It's obviously not a fraction as hot as some of the sauces on offer here at Scorchio but it is very tasty and a good beginner sauce. Personally I think it goes great with good ol' British fish and chips from the chip shop!!

Submited By: Adam Johnson
I've ate Nandos extra hot and xx hot sauce before which brought a bit of a sweat on but was enjoyable. This sauce is pretty darn hot!. I am surprised to see it has 3/5 and am looking for a sauce hotter than this that does'nt have the "add to soups and sauces" advice. I would say this is at least as hot as Nandos X hot sauce, if not XX hot depending on batch. Very nice on chicken in small doses and has a nice burn if you breathe through your mouth!.

Submited By: sauce bloke
This was my first introduction into hot sauces (apart from red tobasco which is too watery to be used as a dipping sauce) and soon after I started eating it I became addicted to it! It is fiery enough for the beginnner but tasty enough for the more hardened enthusiast to maintain its interest while you develop your taste for hot sauces. I have heard real hot chilli professionals say it is a little too vinegary, but I love this element, its very addictive and the more you eat, the more you want until you are dreaming about it at night and considering having it on your cornflakes! Great value too and available everywhere.