Mama Melisse The Mama Hot Sauce on toast topped with fried eggs and hot sauce on a slate-blue table
Mama Melisse THE MAMA HOT SAUCE

Award-winning Sri Lankan heat

A century-old Sri Lankan family recipe bottled in Frankston — fresh chilli, ginger and garlic that builds then lets go, crowned Australian Sauce of the Year 2024.

A century-old Sri Lankan recipe, crowned Australian Sauce of the Year 2024.

Mama Melisse The Mama Hot Sauce 200g bottle
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Award-WinningAustralian Sauce of the Year, tag and all.

Mama Melisse

Take Plenty and Eat!

Mama Melisse — Melisse Fernando — grew up on the spice island of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, carrying a family hot sauce recipe more than a century old to her new home in Frankston, Victoria.

The range is small and personal: a fresh chilli, ginger and garlic hot sauce and a zesty turmeric mustard, both gluten free and built for wings, pulled pork, pizza, roast ham and a decent bacon-and-egg roll.

Start with the best-selling Mama Hot Sauce, then reach for the Mama Mustard as a binder before the rub goes on, or whisked straight into a dressing.

The proof's real: the Mama Hot Sauce took out Australian Sauce of the Year and Australia's Best Hot Sauce at the 2024 Australian BBQ Awards, then backed it up with Best Hot Sauce at the 2025 Herb & Chilli Festival.

A hundred years of family recipe, three awards in two years, and a Sri Lankan-Australian sauce that means it every time she says it — take plenty and eat!

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    Mama Melisse The Mama hot sauce 200g glass bottle front label - award winning Australian hot sauceMama Melisse The Mama hot sauce 200g bottle, Australian Sauce of the Year, made in Frankston VictoriaMama Melisse brand logo, Australian hot sauce and mustard maker
    MAMA MELISSE
    The Mama Hot Sauce – 200g
    Award-winning Sri Lankan-style hot sauce for wings, pulled pork, pizza and eggs. Raw sugar and ginger, sharp garlic, then a hot, fresh chilli kick. Meatstock 2024 champ.
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  • Mama Melisse Mama Mustard 200g glass jar front label - gluten free Australian mustardMama Melisse Mama Mustard 200g jar, gluten free Australian grainy mustard made in Frankston VictoriaMama Melisse logo - Australian hot sauce and mustard brand
    MAMA MELISSE
    Mama Mustard – 200g
    Ginger and turmeric mustard for pork ribs, ham, snags and roast beef sangas. Crisp vinegar and raw sugar, ginger and garlic, zesty tang, no burn. Not every other mustard.
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    $19.00

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