Auckland · since 2021
New Zealand’s
original hot honey
Chilli-infused, honey-based, no added sugar. A drizzle or a dollop on your favourite foods makes the magic happen.
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Sweet Sting Hot Honey
The sauce that started our journey, and still the one we'd take to a desert island. Honey from Coromandel and Marlborough, fresh red chillies from the North, a dash of apple cider vinegar. That's it. Drizzle, dunk, dip or use as a next level ingredient. Every recipe here is built on a base of our original, that green bottle goes a long way.
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Here’s 48 of our favourite Hot Honey recipes, handily sorted by your food mood and your ingredients on hand.
HamSweet Sting Christmas Ham Glaze
The glaze that ruins every other ham. Hot honey and mustard lacquered on in three coats, so it goes glassy and dark at the edges without catching.
ChickenHot Honey Chicken Schnitzel Sandwich
Crunchy schnitzel, quick pickled onion and a hard drizzle of hot honey that soaks halfway into the crumb. The one people make twice in a week.
CamembertBaked Camembert with Hot Honey
Twenty-five minutes, four ingredients, and the single most reliable way to convert someone who thinks they don't like chilli.
Blue cheeseRoasted Fig, Prosciutto & Blue Cheese Tartines
Salt, funk, sweetness and heat on one piece of toast. Looks like it took an hour; takes twenty minutes.
HaloumiHot Honey Haloumi Tacos
Squeaky, salty haloumi hit with hot honey the second it leaves the pan, so it glazes rather than slides off.
ChickenSticky Asian-Style Chicken Nibbles
Baked, not fried, then tossed through a hot honey and soy glaze until they're properly lacquered. The tray disappears first, every time.
ChickenHot Honey Chicken Wings
The benchmark. Crisp skin, no deep fryer, and a glaze that sets rather than pools at the bottom of the bowl.
MozzarellaSweet Stingy Naan Bread Pizza
Fifteen-minute pizza on a naan base. The hot honey goes on after the oven, never before — that's the whole trick.
GnocchiSimple Sweet Sting Gnocchi
Pan-fried gnocchi with brown butter and hot honey. Four ingredients, one pan, on the table in fifteen minutes.
CheddarCheesy Sweet Heat Quesadillas
Crisp on the outside, molten in the middle, with hot honey through the cheese rather than on the side.
PeanutSublime Sweet Sting Thai Peanut Sauce
A five-minute peanut sauce that keeps a week and improves everything it touches — satay, noodles, roast vegetables, cold chicken.
GinSpicy Cucumber & Lime Gin Fizz
A five-minute gin fizz built on muddled cucumber, lime and loosened hot honey, long over ice with soda. Cold, sharp and faintly dangerous.
Oats & datesHot Honey Bliss Balls
No-bake oat, date and almond balls with cocoa and hot honey. Fifteen minutes, makes sixteen, and a warmth at the back that keeps them interesting.
OystersBluff Oysters with Hot Honey Mignonette
Three months a year, and worth waiting for. A mignonette with hot honey in it cuts the brine without burying the oyster.
ScallopsScallops with Brown Butter & Hot Honey
Ninety seconds a side and a pan sauce made from what's already in the pan. The most expensive thing you can cook in under ten minutes.
PrawnsHot Honey Prawn Skewers
Barbecue prawns that don't dry out, because the glaze goes on at the end rather than the start. Ten minutes, start to plate.
TequilaHot Honey Margarita
The spicy marg, done properly. Hot honey replaces the agave, so the heat is in the drink rather than smeared round the rim.
GinSweet Sting Bramble
Dark, tart and a bit menacing. Blackberry and chilli turn out to be old friends nobody thought to introduce.
WhiskyHot Honey Old Fashioned
An old fashioned built on hot honey rather than syrup. Three ingredients, five minutes of stirring, and a slow warmth underneath the whisky.
VodkaHot Honey Espresso Martini
The heat arrives after the coffee does, which is far more interesting than it sounds. Best late, and only one.
KūmaraRoast Kūmara with Feta & Hot Honey
Kūmara caramelises harder than any other roast vegetable, and hot honey meets it exactly where it lands. The side dish people ask about.
CauliflowerHot Honey Cauliflower Wings
Battered, baked and tossed in the same glaze as the chicken version. The one vegetarian dish that gets eaten by everyone at the table.
PorkHot Honey Pulled Pork Sliders
Six hours of doing nothing, then ten minutes of assembly. The hot honey goes through the pork after shredding, not before.
SalmonHot Honey Glazed Salmon
Ten minutes in a hot pan, glazed at the end so the honey caramelises without burning. The weeknight dinner that looks like a Saturday.
Egg & brothHot Honey Ramen
A spoonful stirred through at the end rounds out a sharp broth and gives it a slow, sweet burn. Works with any ramen you already make.
RicottaSpinach & Ricotta Pasta Bake
A 70-minute Sunday bake: rigatoni layered with spinach ricotta under a hot honey tomato sauce. The ricotta stays mild, the sauce underneath has an edge.
TomatoThe Slow Tomato Sauce
Two hours of barely any work for 1.5 litres of deep tomato sauce, finished off the heat with hot honey so the sharpness goes. Freezes for three months.
LambLamb Meatballs in Hot Honey Tomato
Pine nuts and raisins in the meatball, hot honey in the sauce. Sweet, sharp and savoury all at once, which is very much the point.
KūmaraKūmara & Potato Salad, Hot Honey Mustard
The barbecue side that gets finished first: kūmara and waxy potatoes dressed warm in hot honey and wholegrain mustard. Thirty minutes, serves six.
HalloumiGrilled Halloumi with Hot Honey & Balsamic Berries
Twelve minutes and it looks like you tried much harder than you did. Salty, squeaky, sweet, sharp and hot in the same mouthful.
SausageSausage & Apple Traybake
One tray, forty-five minutes, and the glaze goes on with fifteen to go so nothing burns. A genuinely good weeknight dinner.
ChickenCoconut Chicken Laksa
One pot, 45 minutes: chicken thighs simmered in coconut milk and laksa paste, with hot honey stirred through at the end to round the broth out.
PorkCaribbean Hot Honey Pork Ribs
Allspice-rubbed pork ribs, two hours in foil, then a rum and hot honey glaze blasted on at the end. Two and a half hours, almost all of it unattended.
PorkWholegrain Mustard Pork Chops
Fifteen minutes, one pan, and the pan sauce made from what is already in it. A weeknight chop that eats like a Saturday.
TofuTofu & Cashew Hot Honey Stir Fry
Thirty-five minutes, one wok. Getting the tofu properly dry is 90% of whether this works.
SesameSesame Soy Hot Honey Dressing
Five minutes and one jar: sesame oil, soy, rice vinegar and hot honey whisked into a dressing that keeps a fortnight and fixes anything green.
Red onionHot Honey Red Onion Pickle
Fifteen minutes of work for a jar of sharp, faintly hot pickled red onion that makes every sandwich better for a month. Edible within the hour.
PorkHot Honey Pork Belly
Slow-roast pork belly with proper crackling, glazed with hot honey in the last fifteen minutes so it lacquers instead of burning. Three hours, serves four.
BeefSticky Hot Honey Beef Short Ribs
Beef short ribs braised four hours until they slide off the bone, then glazed with hot honey and soy for the last ten. Serves four, mostly unattended.
ChickenHoney Soy Chicken Drumsticks
Honey soy drumsticks baked in under an hour, glazed only in the last twelve minutes so they come out sticky rather than burnt. Cheap, easy, serves four.
LambHot Honey Glazed Lamb Chops
Lamb chops seared four minutes a side, then finished with a hot honey, rosemary and lemon pan glaze made off the heat. Twenty minutes, serves two.
Beef & porkHot Honey Meatballs
Beef and pork meatballs baked for eighteen minutes, then rolled through a hot honey and soy glaze. Forty minutes, makes twenty-four, freezes raw.
ChickenHot Honey Chicken Thigh Traybake
One tray, under an hour: chicken thighs, baby potatoes and red onion, with the hot honey going on in the last ten minutes so nothing catches. Serves four.
BeefSteak with Hot Honey Butter
Sirloin seared hard and rested under a coin of hot honey butter that melts over it. Fifteen minutes, serves two, and the butter keeps a fortnight.
ChickenHot Honey Roast Chicken
A whole roast chicken glazed with hot honey in the last fifteen minutes, so the skin goes dark and sticky without catching. Under two hours, serves four.
Vanilla ice creamHot Honey over Vanilla Ice Cream
Thirty seconds of work, and the shortest argument anyone has ever needed for the whole product. Cold, sweet, salty, and then a heat that turns up after you have swallowed.
Stone fruitHoney-Roasted Stone Fruit with Mascarpone
Peaches or apricots roasted until they slump, in a syrup made from nothing but their own juices and hot honey. Twenty-five minutes in the oven, and the mascarpone does the rest.
FeijoaFeijoa Crumble with Hot Honey
Feijoa season runs about six weeks from late March, and this is the best thing to do with a bucket of them. The hot honey goes into the topping as well as the fruit, so the crumb bakes into craggy, almost-granola clumps.
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