I purchased Crucials Brazilian BBQ Sauce from my local pound shop and thought It would be worth a try.
The texture of Crucials Brazilian BBQ Sauce quite gloopy and slightly unnatural looking. A very smooth sauce with no bits or chunks.
Pretty generic barbecue sauce flavour here: sweet, smoky, strong tomato. There is a small amount of fruity tang that brightens up the sauce, but this is really only detectable when eating a very small amount and generally gets lost among the other strong barbecue sauce flavours. I can’t detect any heat here which is quite disappointing considering it’s meant to be spiced with jalapeno peppers.
Calling this sauce Brazilian is questionable, but then again what is a traditional Brazilian barbecue sauce – care to let me know? Encona recently put out an Encona Brazilian BBQ sauce which I thought was great since it was really quite different to other generic barbecue sauces.
A good sauce to put out for children at a barbecue, or for folks that just like a mild sweet barbecue sauce. This isn’t a bad sauce, I just wish Crucials would have been a bit more bold with the Brazilian flavour (mangos) and jalapeno heat. There are plenty of barbecue sauces out there, and I’d certainly never reach for this one if I had the choice.
Rating: 2/5
A Brazilian BBQ sauce is none. In the traditional Brazilian BBQ called Churrasco, coarse salt is added to the meat, the meat is then put into long skewers and goes to the fire. That is it, it has great meat taste, not sauce taste.
Cheers.
Gaucho.