Texture: Medium with some nice pepper and tomato bits
Recommended: Yes
Ingredients: Dog River Farm tomatoes, Full Moon Farm onion, Red Fire Farm Anaheim peppers, Dutchess Farm sweet peppers, Honey Field Farm red serrano, Pete’s Greens garlic scapes, salt, olive oil
While Butterfly Bakery of Vermont makes some of my favorite hot sauces as well as some amazing mustards they have a line of tomato sauces that don’t seem to get as much exposure. This is currently their own tomato sauce that’s spicy. Arrabbiata means “angry” in Italian is a type of sauce originally invented around Rome in the 1950s.
Typically an arrabbiata sauce will have tomatoes, garlic, Italian chili peppers, and olive oil. Butterfly Bakery of Vermont doesn’t go far from the tradition here with a recipe involving tomatoes, onion, and chiles including Anaheim, serrano, and sweet peppers plus garlic scapes and the olive oil. Italian food is known for taking advantage of the freshest and most local ingredients which is a perfect match for Butterfly Bakery of Vermont’s business model of sourcing ingredients from local Vermont farms to get the freshest produce at the peak of the season. The Arrabbiata sauce has a great fresh pepper aroma when you open the jar and a consistency with some nice chunks of tomatoes and peppers.
Tasting the sauce straight out of the bottle the first thing that you’ll notice is how fresh this tastes. Many jarred tomato sauces have an overly-cooked flavor that mutes the freshness of the tomatoes but in Butterfly Bakery of Vermont’s Spicy Arrabbiata Tomato Sauce there’s a strong fresh tomato flavor which is enhanced by the fresh, fruity, and vegetal flavors of the Anaheim, sweet, and serrano peppers. Most brands of arrabbiata sauce from the grocery store shelves just use basic crushed red peppers, even those that sell at a premium price point such as Rao’s, so the use of the trio of fresh peppers really sets this off. The onions and garlic scapes round out the flavors and add savory depth while the olive oil adds some richness.
Of course you don’t eat a tomato sauce just straight out of the jar, so I decided to use this in a classic spaghetti with meat sauce preparation which I’d been having a craving for. Keeping it simple to let the sauce shine I just sauteed a bit of onion and garlic in some olive oil then added some ground beef and then the sauce before finishing my noodles inside of the pan to make sure they were fully coated. The freshness of the sauce still comes through even with the other ingredients and there is a nice undertone of spice and heat. This isn’t a very hot sauce by any means, but it has more zing than I’ve tasted from any of the major sauce brands.
Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Spicy Arrabbiata Tomato Sauce gets my highest recommendation. This is as of now the best jarred tomato sauce that I’ve tried with a great fresh tomato and fresh pepper flavor. This sauce is also all natural with no artificial preservatives, flavors, colors, or thickeners.
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Arrabbiata is so easy to make fresh and actually make it hot, so I will NEVER buy store bought sauce
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Quick Flavor Notes: Fresh tomato, grassy, fruity, vegetal, garlic
Texture: Medium with some nice pepper and tomato bits
Recommended: Yes
Ingredients: Dog River Farm tomatoes, Full Moon Farm onion, Red Fire Farm Anaheim peppers, Dutchess Farm sweet peppers, Honey Field Farm red serrano, Pete’s Greens garlic scapes, salt, olive oil
While Butterfly Bakery of Vermont makes some of my favorite hot sauces as well as some amazing mustards they have a line of tomato sauces that don’t seem to get as much exposure. This is currently their own tomato sauce that’s spicy. Arrabbiata means “angry” in Italian is a type of sauce originally invented around Rome in the 1950s.
Typically an arrabbiata sauce will have tomatoes, garlic, Italian chili peppers, and olive oil. Butterfly Bakery of Vermont doesn’t go far from the tradition here with a recipe involving tomatoes, onion, and chiles including Anaheim, serrano, and sweet peppers plus garlic scapes and the olive oil. Italian food is known for taking advantage of the freshest and most local ingredients which is a perfect match for Butterfly Bakery of Vermont’s business model of sourcing ingredients from local Vermont farms to get the freshest produce at the peak of the season. The Arrabbiata sauce has a great fresh pepper aroma when you open the jar and a consistency with some nice chunks of tomatoes and peppers.
Tasting the sauce straight out of the bottle the first thing that you’ll notice is how fresh this tastes. Many jarred tomato sauces have an overly-cooked flavor that mutes the freshness of the tomatoes but in Butterfly Bakery of Vermont’s Spicy Arrabbiata Tomato Sauce there’s a strong fresh tomato flavor which is enhanced by the fresh, fruity, and vegetal flavors of the Anaheim, sweet, and serrano peppers. Most brands of arrabbiata sauce from the grocery store shelves just use basic crushed red peppers, even those that sell at a premium price point such as Rao’s, so the use of the trio of fresh peppers really sets this off. The onions and garlic scapes round out the flavors and add savory depth while the olive oil adds some richness.
Of course you don’t eat a tomato sauce just straight out of the jar, so I decided to use this in a classic spaghetti with meat sauce preparation which I’d been having a craving for. Keeping it simple to let the sauce shine I just sauteed a bit of onion and garlic in some olive oil then added some ground beef and then the sauce before finishing my noodles inside of the pan to make sure they were fully coated. The freshness of the sauce still comes through even with the other ingredients and there is a nice undertone of spice and heat. This isn’t a very hot sauce by any means, but it has more zing than I’ve tasted from any of the major sauce brands.
Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Spicy Arrabbiata Tomato Sauce gets my highest recommendation. This is as of now the best jarred tomato sauce that I’ve tried with a great fresh tomato and fresh pepper flavor. This sauce is also all natural with no artificial preservatives, flavors, colors, or thickeners.
Arrabbiata is so easy to make fresh and actually make it hot, so I will NEVER buy store bought sauce