Mang Tomas is the brand of an all-purpose sauce that Filipinos love to use with lechon.
The original variant comes in a yellow-labeled bottle that contains 11.64 fluid ounces.
Many eaters often wonder what it’s made from. The crucial ingredient is liver!
Ingredients in Mang Tomas Sauce
Water, Sugar, Bread Crumbs, Vinegar, Salt, Liver, Spices, Pepper and Sodium Benzoate as a Preservative
Update: As of 2017, the ingredients list of the commercial Mang Tomas sauce being sold internationally no longer includes liver on the label. It is now as follows: Water, Sugar, Breadcrumbs, Iodized Salt, Modified Starch, Onion, Vinegar, Garlic, Palm Olein, Black Pepper, Chili, Sodium Benzoate, BHA and TBHQ
Another common variant is the hot and spicy Mang Tomas, which has a red label and is used for roasts.
Ingredients: Water, Cane Sugar, Bread Crumbs, Cane Vinegar, Salt, Hydrolyzed Plant Protein, Onions, Garlic, Black Pepper and Sodium Benzoate as a Preservative.
AND recently, for the extremely adventurous, there’s the new Mang Tomas SIGA Hot & Spicy! Macho Ganado from NutriAsia. Product of the Philippines!!
Feel free to pour loads of Mang Tomas sauce on barbecued meat, on plain white rice… bread… on anything edible! You can usually buy the different flavors on Amazon.
Or make you own lechon sauce with an easy sarsa recipe.
If the internationally sold ones don’t have livers in the list of ingredients, does it mean the product doesn’t really have livers in it? Or so just foreigners won’t be put off by the livers as a lot of them don’t eat it? Thanks
Do you need to refrigerate after opening?
It’s like ketchup. Some people think it should be placed in the refrigerator; others don’t.
If in a hot climate like in the tropics, it’s safer to place inside the fridge after opening.
The main ingredients of Mang Tomas are like ketchup — sugar/sweetener, vinegar and preservatives. Both sauces should be ok at room temperature as long as the climate is moderate and not sweltering summer-hot.
I am not eating Halal.Can i ask what kind of liver included in the ingredients of Mang Tomas which is supply in Middle East.Thanks
Yo Mang Tomas is the best sauce