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Surprising Sriraha Uses that can make your day!

There are many surprising sriracha uses that all consumers should be aware of and know how to make use of. It can be difficult to find a good hot sauce made of chili powder but sriracha fits all of those necessary requirements. If you don’t desire to buy some sriracha sauce, you can decide to make some yourself with simple ingredients such as chili peppers, vinegar, garlic, sugar, and salt. Sriracha sauce originates in Thailand and can be found in many restaurants and supermarkets today. It has become exceedingly popular because there’s some heat to the sauce but not too much where your tongue will be burning for the rest of the day. The process of mixing the ingredients together only takes a couple of minutes total but if you want to buy some in your local store, you can do that instead. What most people don’t know is that there are many surprising sriracha uses that you can take advantage of if you’re willing to do some research and check out a few options.

Sriracha Cream Cheese

Sriracha can be made into many different things and there are numerous recipes that you can use if you have a family gathering or if you are getting together with friends. Sriracha cream cheese is one of those uses, which can be spread across your bagels in the morning as apart of your breakfast.

Sriracha Chicken Wings

If you’re a big fan of chicken wings, you can make sriracha chicken wings with the kind of hot sauce that makes you remember fondly the Thai-style sriracha sauce that you know and love.

Sriracha Cheez-Its

Everybody loves cheez-its and that’s why you can make a recipe including sriracha cheez-its with the same flavor that you would find in the original sauce.

Sriracha Sesame Ginger Pocorn

Sriracha Sesame Ginger Popcorn is also another surprising sriracha use as a unique recipe that you make using the additions of sesame, ginger, and garlic along with the necessary chili paste, and add that to any popcorn. This kind of popcorn with sriracha can even be found in certain supermarkets such as ‘The Oatmeal.’ You can also order this kind of sriracha popcorn from websites on the Internet.

The Cocky Rooster

Sriracha just isn’t for foods nowadays. You can also add sriracha as a use for making certain cocktail drinks like ‘The Cocky Rooster.’ The cocky rooster cocktail drink is made up of ingredients such as pale lager beer, maggi sauce, jalapenos, and a little bit of sriracha sauce that tops off the drink.

Sriracha and Wasabi Deviled Eggs

Some folks may be a big fan of recipes that are unique such as sriracha and wasabi deviled eggs. This idea originally came from a chef called Joanne Chang and there’s a lot of spice in this recipe not just from the sriracha sauce that’s added to the eggs but also the wasabi that makes it even spicier.

Sriracha Syrup and Jalapeno Waffles

If you want another spicy recipe that uses sriracha, you should look into sriracha syrup and jalapeno waffles. Filled with interesting ingredients that some kick to it, sriracha is more than just a sauce or a paste, you can mix it with maple syrup to form a hybrid sriracha maple syrup. To add on that, you’re eating unique jalapeno waffles that taste delicious. Be careful though because you may want to start adding sriracha to other condiments like mustard and ketchup afterwards.

Sriracha Ice Cream

A website known as ‘Vegan Yack Attack’ has a recipe for sriracha ice cream, which can be used with many different ice cream flavors such as chocolate and vanilla. You can make this sriracha ice cream homemade and it will add a little bit of yest to your favorite kind of ice cream.

Sriracha Buttered Shrimp

A lot of people love shrimp and they are always looking for new ways to season this dish or spice it up a bit. The ‘Bon Appetit’ website has a great recipe for Sriracha Buttered Shrimp that will make your mouth water with anticipation. You can add the sriracha and mix it with butter after sautéing the garlic as well as mix all of those ingredients with the shrimp too. This dish is full of flavor and is easy to make to your liking.

Fried Brussels Sprouts with Honey and Sriracha

It can be difficult to love brussels sprouts but when you fry them up in a skillet and mix in honey as well as sriracha, the results are delicious for those people who try it out. The fried brussels sprouts with honey and sriracha pack a mix of sweet and salty, which will have your taste buds yearning for more of it. Even if you are not a big fan of vegetables, you should give these brussels sprouts a try because it’s likely that they will make you come back for seconds and thirds.

Sriracha and Brown Sugar Almonds

If you really love snacks, you may want to try eating sriracha and brown sugar almonds that can feed your craving as apart of the surprising sriracha uses. All you have to do is mix together the sriracha sauce with the brown sugar almonds and let it settle together for a little while.

Sriracha Swirl Bread

Uses for sriracha even extend to different kinds of bread. According to ‘The Curvy Carrot’, a recipe can even be made for ‘sriracha swirl bread’; you can bake your own homemade bread but also add some sriracha and baked cheese inside of it adding some delicious flavors to it. It’s important to remember to add the sriracha and the cheese into the bread before you decide to bake it in the oven.

Sriracha Fudge Popsicles

In addition to srircha ice cream, there is also sriracha fudge popsicles as well. This recipe originally comes from the website ‘Food Babbles.’ When you’re making the popsicles and adding the fudge to the stick, make sure you don’t forget to put some sriracha sauce mixed in with the fudge ice cream to get a real kick to this popular dessert.

Sriracha Bleeding Mary

Along with ‘The Cocky Rooster’, there is also the sriracha bleeding mary, which is a unique take on the popular adult drink known as the bloody mary. According to the website, ‘We Are Not Martha’, you simply need to add sriracha sauce to the mix in order to make the sriracha bleeding mary to really whet your pallet.

Sesame Sriracha Brittle

Peanut brittle is a delicious dessert for anyone who enjoys peanut butter. Over at ‘Taste, Love & Nourish’, there’s a new surprising sriracha use on brittle that’s known as sesame sriracha brittle. All you need to do is to add some sriracha sauce on top of the honey, peanut butter, sea salt, and some sesame to get a delicious result out of this recipe.

Candy, Sriracha, and Whiskey

Alcohol and candy can be strange bedfellows and usually don’t mix well together. However, this isn’t always the case. Candy, sriracha, and whiskey can all go together in one entity, which is known as whiskey sriracha candy and has been done successfully according to the folks at the website known as ‘Olves for Dinner.’

While it’s not necessary to use all of these recipes to satisfy your sriracha cravings, these are some of the surprising sriracha uses that different websites have come up with for their visitors. If you enjoy cooking and really love sriracha as well, you may want to try some of these interesting recipes for yourself especially if you’re able to gather up all of the necessary ingredients.

References

1.) http://firstwefeast.com/eat/2013/12/best-sriracha-recipes/

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