Oporto Original Chilli Sauce Jar

Oporto sells its Original Chilli Sauce Jar for $10.00, and the full jar comes to 4,640 kJ (1,109 Cal). Inside is the hot, oily chilli sauce the chain built its name on, packed in a take home size so you can spoon it over your own cooking, from roast chicken to fried rice and eggs on toast.

About the Oporto Original Chilli Sauce Jar

Oporto spells the recipe out plainly: fresh chilli, fresh lemon, fresh garlic, fresh ginger and canola oil. The company calls it the original recipe, and its menu says of the chilli sauce that this is where it all started, which points back to the North Bondi shop António Cerqueira opened in 1986. The jar is simply the larger format. The same sauce appears in the small dipping pot for single meals, and Oporto's allergen chart files both under one entry. No other sauce on the list has its ingredients spelled out this fully.

Heat arrives first, followed by sharp lemon and a warm finish of ginger and garlic. The canola oil keeps it loose and slick rather than pasty, so it runs into rice, soaks into bread rolls and coats roast vegetables. Oporto describes it as hot, spicy and oily, and that sums it up. Chilli lovers who cook at home get the most out of a jar; anyone who only wants sauce with a burger is better served by a pot. People chasing more fire than this sauce delivers should look at the Extremo Picante pot, which Oporto pitches as the bigger kick.

Energy adds up because the jar is large: 4,640 kJ for the whole thing, more than half of the 8,700 kilojoule adult daily reference on Australian labels. A teaspoon on a plate is a tiny share of that. The Prego Sauce Jar costs the same $10.00 and lands lower at 3,523 kJ. For the next visit, grab an Original Chilli Dipping Sauce for the meal in front of you and a Garlic Dipping Sauce to cool things down.

How to order the Original Chilli Sauce Jar

One size only: the jar, listed at $10.00 on Oporto's online menu for the Padstow NSW store. Prices can vary by store. Sauces carry no basting choice and no Make it a Meal upgrade, and the jar does not appear on the Late Night Menu listing. Oporto's allergen chart shows Original Chilli Sauce as containing soy, with no trace warnings listed. Six dipping pots at $1.50 each cost less than one jar at the base store, so the jar is about having sauce at home rather than saving money.