Review: Hot Mama’s Spicy Mango Habanero Sauce

Greetings and Saluations to the HSB and chiliheads worldwide. I am here at school now with a student out. What can I possibly do? Looking around I see Hot Mama’s Manganero Sauce and my boredom has now ended!

Initial Thoughts: I have alot of mixed thoughts right now about this product. I have never tried a product of Hot Mama’s. As a true chilihead I can’t really stress how excited I get when I have the chance to try a new product, yet alone a new company! It really gets me that good nervous feeling. I have only tried one mango sauce in the past and it was very good. This was Blair’s Q Mango. I used it to glaze chicken wings that were baked since I was cooking for some company and couldn’t go to extreme measures. They came out very well and I got great reviews from my friends. However, I wanted to try a mango sauce that I could use as a topping for either a meal or a quick snack. I didn’t know how a mango sauce would taste straight out of the bottle. I feel this product will taste good based on the ingredients. However, the size of the bottle is a little overwhelming at 10 oz. and sometimes I think that a bigger product means less of a quality since it allows the company to sell more for less. I hope this is not the case with Hot Mama’s. Also I am glad to see that Hot Mama is from Belize. Right now I am thinking that this will be a product that I will enjoy.

Ingredients: Mango Sugar, Select Red Habanero Peppers, and that is all that is listed. (I tried locating more info at their website but am thwarted in my attempts to do so)

Visual: Hot Mama’s Manganero comes in a 10 oz. bottle. The color of the sauce inside the bottle is tangy orange. Remember the drink Tang? It looks like a thick version of that. However there are nice ground up red habanero fleshy pieces that are embedded in the solution. Hot Mama didn’t go skimpy with the amount that she used either. Seeds are not visible. I am hoping that the habanero flesh gives the sauce some decent heat. The label is black with a yellow oval in the middle of it that contains a pyramid, a mango, a habanero, and some woman wearing a jungle headpiece. It seems a little weird to me but maybe this is Hot Mama’s formula; or equation for a great product. Overall the label didn’t appeal to me as some of the others I have come across in the past. However, as the old cliche goes that “You can’t judge a book by its cover”, so we will have to just wait until the Belizean Pyramids are unleashed before making a final decision on this product.

On back of the label I am glad to see that there are no preservatives in this product. The back of the label reads, “Add a touch of Belizean Spice with every meal. Selected fresh mangos are used to make this delicious sauce. Can be used on chicken, pork, seafood, beef, and vegetables. As a snack- put Hot Mama’s Manganero over a block of cream cheese and serve with chips, crackers, vegetables. etc. Don’t hesitate to spice up your life with Hot Mama’s Foods!”

Aroma: I give Hot Mama’s Manganero a twist and I open the cap and I smell mainly sugar and mango. The mango flavor is quite good but I really don’t pick up on the scent of the habanero chili. I am thinking the fruity odor of the mango and the sugar added is just a little too much for the habanero.

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Application: I was in the mood for some chicken tonight as I am trying to stay health conscious. I felt that the mango would be a nice addition to the beautifully steamed white chicken over rice! The orange color should just do it right! I decided to heat the mango sauce up a little bit. Personally, I feel that the mango with a little heat always enhances its flavor just a tad. Remeber when I mentioned those glazed chicken wings of Blair’s Q Mango Heat. That was my first Mango Sauce and I enjoyed it so why not continue with what works, right?

The flavor of the mango, warmed up, really did add a great addition to what really would just be plain ole ordinary tasting chicken and rice. The flavor was just right and the sweetness wasn’t overbearing. It was hard to taste the habanero but the heat of the habanero was there. I mean we have to think rationally here. This is a mango sauce, not CaJohns, “The Legend”!! While the heat wasn’t overbearing by any means it was there and quite good for a Mango sauce. To get a little more heat than what came with the product, I decided to sprinkle Blair’s Death Rain Nitro onto the chicken 1st. Then I coated the top of it with the Mango Sauce. I just wanted to add a little more heat to it.
**Please be aware that my rating on taste and heat is based soley on the Mango Sauce in a trial run I did before adding the Death Rain Nitro.

Final Thoughts: Hot Mama’s Manganero Hot Sauce is definitely worth trying and adding to your collection. The quality is good and the quantity, (10 oz.) is the right bargain for you people who like to get alot of bang for the buck. The sauce is what a mango sauce should be, sweet, but not too sweet, hot but not pepper dominant, and good quality mangos being used. I definitely will dance with Hot Mama again in the future!

Packaging 6/10
Aroma 7/10
Taste 8/10
Appearance 9/10
Heat 5/10

Overall 7.5

Hot Mama’s Foods
Mile 58 Western Highway
Unitedville, Cayo District
Belize, Central America
Phone: 011-501-824-3475
Fax: 011-501-824-3649