The cuisines of Mexico are as rich and diverse as the country itself, comprised of native recipes made using regional ingredients — corn, squash, agave, cactus and cacao, to name a few — along with newer dishes influenced by Spanish cuisine and other countries around the world.
Chili peppers have played an important role in Mexican cooking across the culture’s history, and Mexico’s many peppers provide the flavor base for our hot sauces. Read on to learn more about how we layer heat and flavor in our unique range of sauces, along with recipes to include each sauce in your cooking.
Cholula Original Hot Sauce
For traditional flavor, Cholula Original Hot Sauce is a great option. Crafted using a recipe developed over 100 years ago and passed down generation to generation, Cholula Original Hot Sauce features a blend of medium heat, thanks to arbol and piquin peppers, along with authentic Mexican flavor from a blend of regional spices.
It’s the ideal go-to hot sauce for your everyday cooking, ready to add seasoning and spice to everything from enchiladas, tamales, tacos and huevos rancheros — plus, your own signature creations.
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Cholula Green Pepper Hot Sauce
Prefer a green hot sauce? Our Green Pepper Sauce, made with a blend of bright, grassy jalapenos and mellow poblanos, is sure to please. Jalapenos get their name from "Jalapa" (or Xalapa), the capital of Veracruz, Mexico, where they were originally grown, while poblanos Mexican state of Puebla, which is how they got their name. Blending the two peppers creates a sauce that’s zesty and refreshing with medium heat. Use it in salsa verde, guacamole and green mole sauces, or anywhere you want bright, fresh heat.
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Cholula Reserve Tequila & Lime Hot Sauce
Tequila and agave-based spirits are an important part of Mexico’s culture — and they’re a star ingredient in our Reserva Sauce. It combines bright red arbol peppers with potent piquins, a tiny pepper that’s loaded with heat, for a fiery sauce. Signature spices and 100% agave tequila for added complexity and flavor, while a squeeze of lime makes this bright and refreshing. Our Reserva sauce pairs perfectly with seafood, and in cocktails that need a citrusy hit of spice.
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Cholula Chili Garlic Hot Sauce
If you prefer your hot sauce on the milder side, without sacrificing traditional flavor, try Cholula Chili Garlic Sauce. It features a blend of arbol and piquin peppers — the same peppers featured in our original sauce — but tempers the heat with garlic and savory spices. The result is a sauce that’s mildly spicy with a robust garlic flavor. It's Ideal for feeding a crowd with a variety of spice tolerances.
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Cholula Chipotle Hot Sauce
Traditional kitchens in Mexico have cooked with coals for centuries. This method gives a smoky taste to many dishes. Our hot sauce is packed with smoky flavor thanks to chipotle peppers, which are smoke-dried jalapenos, as well as mild guajillo peppers — the dried form of the mirasol chili. While many Mexican chilies are bred for heat, guajillos are bred for flavor, and they add tea-like and berry notes to our sauce. The result is an intensely delicious hot sauce with mild to moderate heat, and a deep color that makes any dish look irresistible.
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Sweet Habanero Sauce
The combination of sweet and heat is a staple in several Mexican cuisines, and our Sweet Habanero Sauce is one of the tastiest ways to add contrast to your cooking. It’s our spiciest sauce yet, thanks to habanero peppers, which combine eye-watering heat with fruity, citrusy flavor. Grown predominantly in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, habaneros are commonly used in the Southeast states of Mexico for dishes such as panuchos and cochinita pibil. Our sauce blends fiery habaneros with pineapple flavors to add sweetness and temper the heat. Use it in any recipe that needs an extra-spicy kick.
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Cholula Chili Lime Hot Sauce
If you love a bright and zest hot sauce with less intensity, our chili lime hot sauce is sure to please. It features a mild blend of flavorful guajillo peppers and paprika, a spice made from dried, ground peppers. Paprika can taste sweet, smoky or spicy, depending on the variety of peppers used and how they’re prepared. The paprika used in our sauce leans toward sweet paprika, with arbol and piquin peppers for a hint of heat. The citrusy lime makes this sauce hot but refreshing, and ideal to pair with fish.
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