Quinta d'Avo, HOT NEWS. Hot Sauces, Marinades, Herbs, Spices

Honey marinade

We did a new Honey marinade, well, let's call it a marinade as it could be used as a Louisiana way of marinade chicken wings. The product is quite liquid, so you can dip the wings for a few hours before going to BBQ. At home, my son Nicolas uses it at a cold sauce, mainly with roasted chicken. It's really full of Honey, it smells and tastes Honey, it's not a Hot sauce at all, quite sweet! You'll love it!

Africa Pura

We've got a new born hot paste now, we called it "Africa Pura" as recipe has been originated by the way african people do their hot sauces, that is adding whicky and oil to peppers. We kept the pepper seeds. It's great, hot stuff, you'l feel Africa in your mouth...On the 150g vertical jars, 4 references now: Angola, Timorense, Chutney and now, Africa Pura. Enjoy it...but keep children away, that's not ketchup!

New marinades

We are launching 2 new marinades: one is garlic/onion, the other garlic/onion/lemon. Both are done to stir-fry pork meat or chicken. The idea is you spread marinade on top of meat or you first add fat in a frying pan and then colocate marinade, and when colour changes, you add meat. Much easier than the traditional peeling of onion, do not cry anymore!

Quinta's going Bio

We would like to present you our new baby, the Piri-piri Bio. Yes that's true, Quinta's is going organic! Huge project, seeds from the USA grown in Portugal (thanks to Teresa)and then transformed by us. Certifed by SATIVA. We do not have a lot this time, as it is the first crop, but we hope next year we can do more. It's hot, a blend of Habanero and Jalapeno. We love it!

Changes in Germany

Harald and Renate transfered Suncoast to Peer-Oliver Goerke from PepperPark. Good luck friend, keep it hot!

Quinta's in Australia

At the same time we go to Finland, we are very happy to announce we are going to Australia too! We have new friends there, Michael and Anna from HBC Trading Australia. We have a very nice project and they showed a lot of energy.So Quinta's will be there beginning of next year. And We have a secret for you: these two never sleep, they work around the clock!

Quinta d'Avo in Finland

Marko Suksi is our new friend in Finland. We met him at Sial, he tried our hot stuff and decided to go ahead with us. We are really happy to go up north with him. And you know, it's always a pleasure when you leave in Portugal to get cooler friends (temperature of -20º last week there). You're welcome Marko in the Quinta's family!

Quinta D'avo in Denmark

We are back in Denmark with a new distributor, VINPORT, see distribution pages. Thank you Isabel to represent us in your so nice country.

SIAL 2010

It has been a very special Sial in Pris this year, with rain and...strikes! Lovely French guys! So some of our friends have not been there, but we were lucky to find new customers from Finland and Australia, as well as many contacts and many new faces. It was good to see new people from Japan and Israel. We have been delight to see again our friends of Bugnet-Saprochi,Sevan,Van den Berg, Pinto and Rolandfood. And as always, we had Maria and I,a real good time with our friends from Chile!!! So thank you everybody, see you next year at ANUGA!

News of the crop

Paprika crop started in Portugal, quite early this year due to a very hot summer, and it seems that the first fruits are really goods. Hot peppers will be later in October.
Garlic price is rising a lot currently, because the crop in China is expected to be much lower than previous years. We are expecting the price at year end to be twice the one of last January. We are doing our best to get garlic at the plant, but it is quite difficult these days...

Quinta's back at Waitrose

(Apr 26, 2010) For our friends from England, summer is arriving soon and our Quinta's sauces, the Piri-piri and the Lemon Piri-piri BBQ sauce, will be on sale again at the Waitrose stores from May 21st. Bon apétit!

Switzerland

We made a tour in the stores of Switzerland last June, with the help of our friends of Bugnet-Saprochi. It was really good, I love this country. Stores are really nice and I am sure we will have a real good opportunity in terms of business. Thanks again Didier!

Quinta's in the USA/CANADA

(Apr 26, 2010) We made an important business with TJX Companies in the USA. This summer, Quinta's Piri-piri, Quinta's Lemon pepper sauce, Quinta's Garlic pepper sauce and Quinta's Chicken Peri-Peri, will be sold in the USA at HOMEGOODS, MARSHALLS AND T-J-MAXX and at HOMESENSE in CANADA. To all our friends from USA and Canada, please go there and buy our best hot sauces from Portugal. And enjoy your BBQs!

Dried Herbs and Spices

Hot Red Pepper Crush
(Jan 19, 2010) Now we're manufacturing a small range of the basic Herbs and Spices of the Portuguese traditional cooking: paprika, garlic, cinnamon, hot chilli grounded peppers, white pepper, oregano.

Hot Sauces for teenies...

(Jan 15, 2010) Special Hot Sauce: Chutney Piri-Piri. As young people someway says hot sauces are sauces for old fashion guys loving old-fashioned food, we did something new specially for them, but olders can love that too: the Chutney Piri-Piri, a mix of sweet and hot, done with a lot of ingredients as Balsamic vinegar, sugar, olive oil, and many others. That gives a real new approach of the hot and spicy food. Fantastic with chicken... Take a chance!

New Special Marinades

(Jan 2, 2010) Our vision is based on meeting consumers' needs and making food that is easier, healthier and adds enjoyment and taste to life. Therefore we added some new special Marinades to our range.
The new Chicken Piri-Piri Marinade is a special marinade to prepare the famous Portuguese Chicken Piri-piri. It's quite hot and has to be spread over chicken before barbecue.
The new Refogado Cooking Sauce is a special blend to be use as a frying sauce to cook in a pan whatever you want to do: pork meat, chicken breast, vegetables, mushrooms, potatoes, rice.
The new Lemon Herbs Marinade is a very nice and fresh marinade to add on chicken before cooking. It gives a strong flavour of lemon and a nice touch of herbs.
The new Codfish Sauce is a special sauce to add on salted codfish to get the Portuguese version of the so-called "Bacalhau".

Codfish, Bacalhau, Morue

We know "Bacalhau", a typical Portuguese meal, but nobody knows how to prepare it. So we created a new Codfish Sauce, a blend of olive oil, garlic and paprika. You just need to open the jar and throw over the codfish out of the oven: it's ready!

New customers in Europe

(Mar 7, 2009) We are currently starting some new business in large Europe, with new customers in Poland,in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, Holland, and Switzerland. We wish a great success to all our new partners and we hope that a lot of new consumers will get pleasure in discovering our products.See the name of our importers in "Distribution" and please, get in touch with them.