The Best New Sauces and Dressings in Grocery Stores This Year

Sabrina Weiss, Sonal Dutt

5 June 2024 at 7:00 am·2-min read

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PEOPLE Food Awards 2024: Best Sauces and Dressings

After months of deliberation, we found six sauces that squeezed out the competition in the PEOPLE Food Awards 2024.

These all-star products — ranging from a bottled vodka sauce from a New York City hot spot (hey, Carbone!) to a curry that takes just minutes to prepare — are all worth spreading, dipping or simmering.

Best Tomato Sauce

Not Just 10 Veggie Pasta Sauce

There’s pureed beets, spinach, zucchini and other vegetables in each bottle, but don’t tell our kid testers. “No one suspected—not even my husband,” said a tester.

Buy it! $9 for 16 oz., notjust.co

Best Simmer Sauce

Tasty Bite Butter Chicken Simmer Sauce

Add veggies or protein to this “luscious” Indian curry—made with tomatoes, butter, cashew cream and spices—and dinner is done.

Buy it! $5 for 13 oz., sprouts.com

Best Salad Dressing

Newman's Own Southwest Ranch Dressing

It gets a bright pop of Tex-Mex flavor from chipotle peppers and lime. “It’s great on salads and even better spread on a sandwich,” said a staffer.

Buy it! $4.50 for 16 oz., walmart.com

Best Vodka Sauce

Carbone Spicy Vodka

Unlike other bottled vodka sauces, you add your own cream. The results: a “rich” sauce with “the right balance of heat” that “really tastes like a restaurant meal.”

Buy it! $10 for 24 oz., stopandshop.com

Best Mustard

French's Creamy Dill Pickle Mustard Spread

The mash-up of yellow mustard and pickle brine “is a condiment lover’s dream,” said a tester, who gave it high marks for “tanginess” and “pickle puckering power.”

Buy it! $3 for 12 oz., publix.com

Best Sandwich Spread

Voyage Foods Hazelnut-Free Spread

Skeptics were “blown away” by this cocoa- and nut-free version of chocolate-hazelnut spread. “It tastes so chocolatey and creamy— it’s magic!”

Buy it! $4.50 for 13 oz., walmart.com

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