Welcome to
Pass The Sauced
Are You Ready to Get Saucy?
About Us
Pass The Sauced creates premium small-batch salsas for anyone who wants something extra special. A local Bay Area business, our ingredients are sourced directly from locally-owned family farms, meticulously handmade with zero additives and jarred in glass. From start to finish, we extend the ideals of fairness and equity by keeping-it-local and by producing in a sustainable manner. With salsas and cooking sauces created to please nearly every palate, Pass The Sauced gives you another way to get saucy and share your experience of making community one jar of salsa at a time.
Pass The Sauced, a La Cocina incubator, extends a warm welcome to the La Cocina familia for their invaluable guidance and support.
Saucy Creds
What They’re Saying on the Street
Get Saucy
A Salsa for Every Mood
Farm-picked seasonal ingredients prepared directly out of La Cocina kitchen. Our salsas are made with a blend of roasted chiles, organic tomatoes, fresh ingredients y nada más to make sauces that transform traditional dipping salsas into flavorful marinades and sofrito.
Roasted Fire Mild Salsa
The Perfect Choice
Roasted Fire Mild Salsa is reminiscent of salsas traditionally made in a molcajete. Simple ingredients carefully roasted yield an everyday favorite with just enough of a chile kick. Add to vegetables, grilled meats, braised tofu, poultry or eggs any style!
¡Buenisimo!
La Clásica Chipotle Medium Salsa
Served All Day
La Clásica Chipotle Medium Salsa is a rich and deep salsa that doubles as a cooking sauce with the right amount of fire and just a hint of smoke. Add it to one-part broth to enjoy this saucy salsa to braise albóndigas, chicken, pork or veggies.
¡Saucylicious!
Little Red Hot Salsa
The Spice of Life
Little Red Hot Salsa is spicy like its name suggests. Made with five chiles and three tomatoes to accentuate heat and depth, it's a perfect topping, dip or added spice. Some like it hot and chile de árbol delivers that pop chiliheads want! Try with Nicaraguan Vigorón
¡Spicylicious!
La Sticky Cooking Sauce
Cooking as Pure Fun
La Sticky Sauce is a tangy and spicy salsa with a hint of sweetness. Chiliheads prefer it for dipping, but organic tamarind and cane sugar make it perfect for cooking. Just add one-part broth and marinate. Want to grill or bake? Add honey or agave for the perfect rub. Drizzle it for a Sticky surprise!
¡Stickylicious!
Pasto Sauce
Oh So Healthy
Pasto Sauce is a bright citrusy herb-based special fusion sauce featuring ginger, celery, cilantro, lemon and avocado oil. This sauce has infinite uses. Try it with soups, pizza, beans, pork, poultry, seafood, veggies or even as a base for your salad dressing.
¡Riquisimo!
Nacho Mama's Quezo
Pure Liquid Gold
Nacho Mama’s Quezo is a vegan cheeze sauce made with cashews and a unique chile blend lending a perfect hint of smoky heat we call Chipotle Sidekick. This quezo sauce is the result of a collaborative project between two local Bay Area artisans Born at La Cocina: The Uncreamery and Pass The Sauced.
Karla Rosales-Barrios
Owner & Saucier
Meet the Owner
Karla is a first-generation native San Franciscan with Nicaraguan roots. She grew up in the Ingleside, a working-class culturally mixed neighborhood miles from SF's traditional Latino barrio, La Mission. The Ingleside is where her inclusive worldview was born.
Her appreciation for Mexican culture, its people and traditions grew out of annual stopovers in Mexico City en route to Nicaragua to spend the summer with her abuelitos' on their farm on the outskirts of Managua.
These early experiences deepened the value of sharing and connecting with others over food. Pass The Sauced salsas celebrate and reflect those traditional values; Karla invites you to experience, share and cook with her Saucy Local Goods.
Who Knew Getting Sauced Could Do So Much Good?
Plus Sustainability is Never Boring!
From Nicaragua to San Francisco, my Chicana influenced sauces are a product of growing up Latina in the Bay. "It's Just Salsa" ¡Pero Mucho Más!"
Pass The Sauced is all about community. We are proud to be part of the keep-it-local movement. All of our salsas are homegrown - we source, produce and hire locally. Our goal is simple: to build a more equitable Bay Area with every Saucy bite.
Pass The Sauced is also dedicated to doing our part in protecting the environment. We jar our Saucy Local Goods in glass and craft our salsas with organic tomatoes and non-GMO ingredients locally sourced from Bay Area small farmers.
Who knew getting saucy could do so much? In the words of my mamanina, "Take it easy, take it light; except on the sauce!"
COVID-19
Your well-being is always at the heart of our company’s values and mission. Especially in these times, we continue to promote equity, fairness and healthy communities. From start to finish, Pass The Sauced takes care of you by ensuring our health and safety protocols are sound, sourcing from hard-hit local farms and including contactless delivery and payment.
Let’s Stay Safe and Stay Saucy.
How to Get Saucy
Delivery
Pass The Sauced offers contactless delivery* in
SAN FRANCISCO
OAKLAND
* Minimum order of 3 jars
Retail - Oakland
Monte Vista Food Center **
Howden Market
Spice Monkey Restaurant
** Due to COVID-19 industry disruptions, Monte Vista Food Center is the only distributor open and carrying Pass The Sauced products in the Bay Area. Note that Nacho Mama's Quezo is carried by Green Taste Vegan Goods and Other Avenues Co'op in San Francisco.
