Mama Kekes Cooking Sauce Review

I was contacted recently, via Twitter, by a lovely lady named Yolande also known as Mama Kekes from Kekes Foods.

Kekes Foods make cooking sauces based on their own family recipes. Their cooking sauces are 100% natural with no preservatives or artificial colourings. Yolande informed me she was inspired to come up with her range of cooking sauces by selling her mother's recipes for 6 months in Brick Lane Market, London. She received great feedback and decided to sell her cooking sauces to local deli's. Yolande is hoping to supply supermarkets such as Waitrose, Sainsbury's and Whole Foods Market. With a distributor, brand expert and a manufacturer in place, Kekes Foods is ready to hit the big time!

Mama Kekes cooking sauces come in three flavours:
Mango and Root Ginger
Tomato and Scotch Bonnet
Coconut and Lemongrass

I selected the Tomato and Scotch Bonnet cooking sauce to review. Yolande informed me that this particular sauce is suitable for vegetarians, vegans and is gluten free!

The Tomato and Scotch Bonnet cooking sauce recommends using beef as an accompaniment. After Yolande's suggestion I decided to cook mine in a pasta bake, full of fresh and simple ingredients. These ingredients were:

Lean beef mince

Fuseli pasta

Red onion

Red pepper

Mushrooms

Mozzarella

The flavour was wholesome and consistent throughout. There was an underlying pleasant heat from the scotch bonnet chillies. However, I will be honest the sauce was neither as spicy or tomatoey as I had imagined. I guess that isn't necessarily a bad point though, it would make it suitable for the whole family.

The Tomato and Scotch Bonnet cooking sauce is rich in colour and taste and I would recommend anyone to try it. You can contact Yolande through the Kekes Foods Twitter account, @MamaKekes or via their website http://www.kekesfoods.com/

Watch out for the Kekes Foods products in a supermarket near you!

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