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National Chilli awards winner Brighton 2009

National Chilli awards winner Brighton 2009

To be honored by experts in your feild is always the ultimate compliment, a big thank you to all the organisers at Brighton Chilli festival Sept 2009 and Tony {AKA Darth Naga for his superb review} and painfull chilli eating exploits on you tube.

Great result for Mr Vikki's at the great taste awards from www.finefoodworld.co.uk {coveted Oscars of the fine food world}, now our fourth year of entering and we have racked up 28 awards, winners this year are
Banana Habanero**Gold,Satkora * Gold, Hot Gooseberry ** Gold, Hot Coriander* Gold, Hot Lime Pickle*Gold,Hot Brinjal* and another fabulous 2* for the Hot Banana Habanero, please note all products are now available on the site
2008 article on the awards

Review from Tony judge at National chilli awards and Chilefoundry.co.uk

National Chilli Awards:Best Non-sauce
National Chilli Awards:Best in show

I always seem to review sauces lately, well today thats gonna change! I have in my hands a product that is made by a little north­ern chap i met at the Brighton Fiery Foods Fest­ival, “Mr Vikki” is a com­pany run by Adam Marks and is based in the Lake Dis­trict all the way up in Cum­bria. The com­pany describes itself as “a small bespoke Indian fusion pickle pro­du­cer” they use only the freshest nat­ural ingredi­ents that con­tain no glu­ten, wheat or dairy! There recipes often use spe­cific chil­lies and they keep well once opened and unchilled due to the low water con­tent that is attained through ancient meth­ods of preserving.

“King Naga” comes in a beau­ti­ful little 110ml jar with plenty of angles and hon­estly looks like it came straight out of India! there’s a little white label on the back with the ingredi­ents above on it, and a nice warn­ing “Warn­ing!! very hot chilli product”, adorn­ing the front of the jar is an eye-catchingly simple yel­low and black label with the pickles name, the com­pany name and eight little red chilli’s at the top! The pickle itself is a mix­ture of red,green and brown and has a con­sist­ency sim­ilar to thatof a com­mer­cially curry paste but with more seeds and you can tell this is much more fresh and wholesome.

Ingredi­ents: Naga chil­lies (80%), vin­egar, gar­lic, pure sun­flower oil, cel­ery salt, mus­tard, whole spices.

I twis­ted off the jar lid and inhaled deeply with the jar under my nose, and there it was, the beau­ti­ful smell of my favour­ite chilli the Naga..ahhh how i love it so, and this pickle filled my head with all sorts of great memor­ies, for this was not the first time i had tried this pickle, i first tried it at the FFUK Fest­ival in Brighton earlier this year, Myself, Karl from Scorchio and the amaz­ing Dany Lamote had voted this sauce num­ber one not only in the “Best Non Sauce” cat­egory, but it also won the “Best In Show” award as we felt it was the best thing we had tasted that day!!

I hap­pily grabbed a spoon and was actu­ally quite excited at this point to be tast­ing this amaz­ing stuff once more, I dipped in my spoon and took a nice size spoon­ful and placed it on my tongue, then I swished it round my mouth to fully appre­ci­ate the fla­vour. The taste of gar­lic infused with Naga hit me hard, it was like gar­lic and Naga’s were dan­cing in my mouth and cre­at­ing exactly what Adam Marks had inten­ded, a “Fusion” of two very dif­fer­ent fla­vours, only when i took a second spoon­ful did the heat smack me about a bit, not an over­power­ing heat at all but an ini­tial bite with a gentle warmth after­ward that may be con­sidered hot to some people and it cer­tainly gave me a bit of a sweat on! My mouth and tongue were tingling and my lips were fiery, this is the sort of pickly that would go well on an oth­er­wise bor­ing cheese sand­wich, or per­haps used in place of grainy mus­tard the next time you have a bit of ham, a very nice tex­ture with both naga seed and mus­tard seed adding to an already pulpy, fleshy pickle.

The only thing I have ever found sim­ilar to this was a pickle that Mr’s Naga’s mum ordered off the Inter­net called “Mr Naga” and while that was nice it was a little oily for my tastes, this is where “King Naga” excells! The only oil present seems to be only for pre­serving the pickle and it doesn’t factor into the fla­vour at all, there’s no oily feel­ing in the mouth after­wards and no oily after­taste that I have found in some other Indian pickles.

Without a shadow of a doubt go now and buy this stuff, ser­i­ously! its avail­able from www.mrvikkis.co.uk and at Keswick mar­ket at a mod­est £3.50 a jar, and at that price you may as well by a couple, because you’ll go through the first one in a mat­ter of days!! Chuck it in a curry, spread it on toast in fact do whatever you want with it because this is bound to help out any meal with a crack­ing fla­vour and nice warmth to go with it!!

Tell Adam that you saw this review and to chuck me another jar some­time *wink*, until next we meet chile­headz, may the sauce be with you..or actu­ally in this case “May the pickle be with you!”

Hot stuff: Adam Marks and Mary Ballantyne

Hot stuff: Adam Marks and Mary Ballantyne

Adam and Mary are both passionate about Indian food and culture and are self confessed chilli addicts,

Mary explained "we wanted to produce a product that was natural, hand crafted and most importantly fabulous tasting, everything we tried just didnt hit the spot, especially fiery chilli products, which lacked in flavour or just were not hot enough. Adam started all the recipes from scratch beleiving they would be unique and hard to copy, testament to this is that we supply 3 local Indian restaurants, {in particular they use Satkora, and HHH in their curries}, and have won 28 great Taste awards in our first 31/2 years of trading, we rely and depend on repeat sales and would like to thank all our customers for their support.

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