It’s safe to say that our cookery team here at Good Housekeeping spend most of their waking hours thinking about food and developing delicious recipes. But in a recent discussion about what their “desert island food” or storecupboard essential would be (if they could only pick one), everyone answered with the exact same thing: Tabasco Green Jalapeño Pepper Hot Sauce.
We weren’t expecting this simple product to be the top choice – especially as it’s not as common as its more popular variant – but the cookery team assured us this product is so underrated and overlooked, it deserves more time in the spotlight.
“My desert island food staple is hands down the green Tabasco sauce. It’s salty and zingy, and works well with almost anything, but especially this hash brown baked eggs recipe,” says senior cookery writer Grace.
Senior food & drinks writer, Mel, says that the green Tabasco is “SO underrated. There’s so much love for the regular hot sauce but the green is where it’s at. I love adding a splash on to a cream cheese and smoked salmon bagel, but my guilty pleasure is adding a few dashes into this chilli cornbread pie 🤤.”
Our cookery editor, Emma, says: “the green is definitely superior and it has actual flavour, rather than just the burning heat. It’s fresh and zingy with a lovely herbal edge to it, as well as adding a juicy kick to anything you shake it over. It’s my go-to for adding spice to bloody Marys and I absolutely love it on simple scrambled eggs, but it’s particularly delicious when splashed in our breakfast burrito, too.”
Our senior cookery writer, Alice, has a bit of an unconventional way of using her Tabasco jalapeño sauce, but we won’t knock it until we’ve tried it.
“I’ll take the Tabasco green chilli hot sauce over the regular variety any day. I love its peppery, herby taste; a recent combination I’ve been doing is sprinkling it on to sourdough toast, topped with peanut butter, cherry tomatoes and feta!”
Okay, now we’re officially sold on this Tabasco jalapeño hot sauce. It sounds like the underdog we’ve all needed in our cooking to spice things up and add liveliness to our next meal.
Mel is the Senior Food & Drink Writer for Good Housekeeping UK, covering all the delicious new product launches that come her way, writing about food and drink topics, and curating gift guides for the best foodie products to buy. Alongside that, she can be found developing and creating cocktails for GH and holds her WSET Level 2 in Wine and Spirits. She was part of the Good Housekeeping Institute food testing team for over four years before moving over to the digital side, so knows a thing or two about great food products. You'll find her scouring the supermarket shelves in her spare time for new and exciting ingredients to experiment with in her kitchen.
