Portuguese hot honey · In a squeeze bottle
We are developing a short recipe with Portuguese honey and chilli grown here, in a bottle you squeeze over everything.
The ingredient list
We start with honey and chilli. Another Portuguese ingredient gets in only if it clearly improves the taste—never to pad the label.
The plan is to use honey from Portuguese beekeepers, with origin documented by lot. Sweet first, always.
The recipe in development uses chilli grown and dried in Portugal, infused and filtered. The target is clean heat after the honey, without bitterness.
How to use
The target is an upright squeeze bottle with one pointed dispensing nozzle at the top, an optional ordinary protective top cap, and a flat base with no second closure, made to squeeze at room temperature. No spoons, no sticky jars, no apologies.
Taste
The target: honey first. Then the chilli. Clean heat and just enough to make you squeeze again.
Target: medium heat, made for every day, not for proving courage.
Portugal, end to end
Launch requirement: the honey, chilli, any other food ingredient, production and bottling must be Portuguese and documented by lot.
We will use honey from national cooperatives and producers, never blended honey of unknown origin.
The recipe will use chilli grown and dried in Portugal, with no imported extracts.
Launch requires bottling in a registered Portuguese facility and traceability for every lot and ingredient.
Coming soon
We are developing the formula and qualifying production. The plan is to start in independent shops in Lisbon and Porto and through direct orders. Leave your email and we will tell you when it is ready.
PICA MEL Original
250 g
250 g upright squeeze bottle with one pointed dispensing nozzle at the top, an optional ordinary protective top cap, and a flat base with no second closure. Launch price announced with the first batch.
Shops and restaurants: ola@picamel.com
Questions
The target is medium: flavour first and heat after, for the whole pizza rather than one corner. Testing will set the final level.
Portuguese honey and chilli grown in Portugal are the base. The final recipe will stay short, with no seed oils, vinegar, added sugar, preservatives or flavourings. Another Portuguese whole or minimally processed culinary ingredient advances only if blinded sensory confirmation and technical validation show a clear net benefit.
Real honey can crystallise. The formula, package and final storage instructions will be validated before sale.
Because hot honey goes on top of things, not on a spoon. The upright squeeze bottle, with one pointed dispensing nozzle at the top and a flat base, gives controlled dispensing without drips or a sticky jar on the counter.
Not yet. The first batch goes to independent shops in Lisbon and Porto and to direct orders. Leave your email above and we will let you know.
Yes, in cases of 6 and 12. Write to ola@picamel.com.
Part of a group
PICA MEL is one of the companies of Atlantic Utility Co., an AI-native group of businesses investing in the future of Lisbon. Real things, made in Portugal.