What Is Anso Sauce?

By Laine Butterworth (Guest Post)

Could it possibly be Ah so sauce?

Laine

By Daphna (Guest Post)

I agree, it must be Ancho sauce. It comes here in a can, many times in a spanish section of your grocery store. The smoked ancho peppers sit in a tomato type of sauce. Many recipies call for the sauce, a bit here and there, because it can be spicy. Basically, its because of the smoky flavor it is used, there for the ribs make sense.

By

cett

thanks everyone! i got the recipe from a website called cooks.com but ive got the idea of what it is now - seems to be a mild chilli sauce. thats not a prob. can find that here in malta. once again, my friends from thriftyfun have sorted out my problem! thankyou so much.

By

Kaelle

I think it may have been a misprint. There is Ancho sauce as in Ancho Chile Sauce made from Ancho Chiles (which is a dried Poblano chile... or the ground powder of the dried Ancho Chiles.

http://www.foodsubs.com/Chiledry.html

http://www.mccormick.com/content.cfm?id=10072

Recipes for the sauce:

http://www.google.com/search?num=10 ... ncho+Chile+Sauce+%22&btnG=Search

It is used in rib recipes:

http://www.google.com/search?num=10 ... +Chile+Sauce%22+ribs&btnG=Search

By

perfume and powder

Many French recipes refer to anso sauce, as in, "add 1 tablespoon anso sauce". I take it this is something that is bought, not made. I love to cook and keep up with food trends but I've never heard of anso sauce.

By SMB (Guest Post)

I'd guess that Anso sauce is sauce made from ancho peppers (what a poblano pepper is called when it's been dried). Ancho peppers are mildly spicy, and for the recipe that Jess_admin linked to seems as if that would be a good fit.

I also noticed that in the linked recipe, the only capitalised ingredients are "Karo" and "Anso", which makes me think Anso could be a brand name, and so changeed slightly from ancho for trademark purposes.

If you're trying to re-create the recipe, any sort of mild hot sauce would likely work, perhaps one that's more smoky since vinegar is already added in the linked recipe.

Hope that helps!

By

jess

Hi Cettina,

I did a quick internet search and I couldn't find ANYTHING called Anso Sauce. I live in Portland, Oregon, USA and I do a lot of cooking and watch a lot of cooking shows. It must be an ethnic sauce from somewhere else or maybe even a typo.

I did find a recipe that called for it, I bet it is the same one you have.

http://www.gatewayno.com/cuisine/marinades.html

Good Luck!