Shop Maggi Hot & Sweet Sauce 500gm Online
A chilli and tomato table sauce from an Indian grocery.
MAGGI HOT & SWEET SAUCE 500GM
$4.28
Sold by Easy Grocery
Where to Buy It
This is listed by Easy Grocery on DoorToShop, an Indian and South Asian grocery at 184 McLeod Road, alongside several hundred other lines — atta and rice, dals, whole and ground spices, ghee and cooking oils, tea and snacks, and a personal-care and household aisle. Our guide to the store covers the range, and the wider Groceries category has other local stores you can add to the same order.
Delivery is calculated at checkout, with free delivery above the threshold shown there in the Auckland region only, and there is no minimum order value. Enter your postcode at checkout to confirm delivery coverage for your address, or read how DoorToShop works.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a 'hot and sweet' sauce?
A table sauce built on tomato with chilli and sugar together, so it lands somewhere between a ketchup and a chilli sauce rather than being either. It is a category in its own right in Indian kitchens - used the way a household elsewhere might reach for ketchup, but with heat behind it.
What is it used with?
Mostly as a dip and a table sauce - samosas, pakoras, cutlets, sandwiches, momos, anything fried. It also goes into cooking as a shortcut for the sweet-hot-sour note in Indo-Chinese dishes such as chilli paneer, Manchurian and fried rice, where it is stirred in near the end rather than cooked down.
How hot is it, and why does it vary?
It is a mild to moderate sauce by design rather than a chilli-heat product, and it is built to be usable by the spoonful. That said, chilli is agricultural and heat varies between harvests and batches, so a bottle can be noticeably warmer or milder than your last one. Taste before you commit a quantity of it to a pan.
There is watery liquid at the top. Is it off?
Usually separation rather than spoilage, and it stirs back in. What you would bin it for is a sharp or fermented smell, visible mould, or a lid that has domed - none of which is what a settled bottle looks like.
Does it need to go in the fridge once opened?
Follow the pack. Whether an opened bottle or jar is refrigerated, and how long the manufacturer says to use it within, is printed on the label and it differs between products and between the market a product was made for. Read the container you receive rather than going by habit from a different brand.
Is this the Indian-market version?
The listing shows what the store has in stock, and products sourced for the Indian market can differ from a New Zealand retail version in formulation, pack size and the wording on the label. Read the pack you receive rather than assuming it matches a version you have used before.
What is on the pack?
The ingredient list, any allergen statement, the country of origin and the best-before date, all of which are the manufacturer's to state and are printed on the packaging rather than reproduced here. The product page carries the weight, the barcode and the date as the store entered them.
Can I order this with items from other stores?
Yes. DoorToShop is a multi-merchant marketplace, so this can go in the same cart as items from other local stores and you check out once.
How much is delivery, and is there a minimum order?
Delivery is calculated at checkout, where the exact amount is confirmed. Free delivery applies above the threshold shown there, in the Auckland region only. There is no minimum order value, and you can combine items from other local stores in the same cart.