Mumbo Sauce – Is D.C.’S Clandestine Sauce The Adjacent Big Thing?

A friend of mine asked me late if I’d e'er heard of mumbo sauce, since she had merely returned from Washington D.C., together with said it was “everywhere.” I hadn’t, which isn’t a surprise, since unless you’re from the Capital, or select neighborhoods inwards Chicago, this materials is virtually unknown.

Apparently, this sweet-and-sour condiment came to Washington D.C. via Chicago, where it somehow became a staple inwards Chinese take-out restaurants, served equally a condiment with fried chicken wings, alongside other things. That’s equally much background equally you're getting here, together with similar many other regional culinary specialties, the history is murky.

All I know is that this was groovy with fried chicken wings, together with I await frontwards to finding other uses for it, although I’m non certain French fries is going to last 1 of them. I’m a ketchup guy, together with in all probability likewise erstwhile to change. Having said that, I tin forcefulness out come across this catching on, together with for once, I’ll last ahead of a trend.

They tell every takeout house inwards D.C. has their ain surreptitious recipe, but in that place were quite a few published recipes on the Internet, together with and hence this is variety of a composite, based on the extensive, xx minutes of query I did. Stay tuned for the chicken fly experiment I mentioned inwards the video, together with inwards anticipation, I actually produce promise y'all plough over this a endeavor soon. Enjoy!

Ingredients for almost iv cups of Mumbo Sauce:

1 tin forcefulness out (6-oz) love apple tree paste

2/3 loving cup ketchup

1 loving cup pineapple juice

1 loving cup distilled white vinegar

1 lemon, juiced

2/3 loving cup sugar

1/4 loving cup honey

2 tablespoons soy sauce

1 1/2 tablespoons freshly grated ginger

1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

- Please note: Every 1 of these ingredients is “to taste.”

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