Bomba is an Italian Calabrian Hot Chili Condiment. It’s a bomb of flavor and heat that adds dimension, flavor and heat to food. A little goes a long way. You might want to use it on bread, pasta, sandwiches, sauces, soups, pizza, eggs, fish or vegetable salads. Sometimes I add some bomba to tomato sauce and to meatballs. There are many different brands of bomba. Most grocery stores don’t carry bomba so usually I buy it on the internet. I haven’t tried them all yet but here are three that I’ve tried.

Each one is a product of Italy. Each one has a different texture and a different taste but they all have heat.

The peppers have a little funk from Trader Joe’s. I thought I tasted garlic but there is no garlic in the Trader Joe’s…..I guess I was craving garlic with this one.

Italian Harvest is almost just hot oil with crushed chili in it. This one has a nice clean bright almost fresh tasting hot chili taste.

I do note that I usually buy Coluccio Brand and it differs each and every time I buy it…Sometimes it’s extra hot and sometimes it is almost mild.

Today the Coluccio brand taste like it’s made with very good olive oil. It’s chunky with lots of olive tasting vegetables and some spices. It seems mild and tasty at first and then it builds in heat that lingers.

I like all the Bomba here. Each one had something different to it.

I tried Trader Joe’s

Italian Harvest

Coluccio

It’s better to have any jar of Bomba than to not have a jar of Bomba.