PORTLAND — Good Clean Food has released its newest all-natural simmer sauce flavor, Citrus Ginger, announced Kurt Shisler, president and founder of the Portland-based company.

The Citrus Ginger sauce adds to Good Clean Food’s line of original simmer sauces for seafood (Creole, Scandinavian Dill and Mediterranean), and recently released simmer sauces for chicken (Cacciatore, French Tarragon and Maine Cider).

Staying true to form since Shisler and his team produced their first jar of sauce, Good Clean Food is using only premium, all-natural ingredients in its new Citrus Ginger simmer sauce, just as with its other six authentic simmer sauce flavors for fresh seafood and poultry. The base of the Japanese-style, fat-free Citrus Ginger sauce is dashi stock, made in the traditional manner with bonito (dried fish) and kombu (seaweed). The sauce features such quality ingredients as fresh ginger, cloud ear mushrooms and lily flowers, as well as sake, orange juice and tamari.

“Citrus Ginger is our first Asian-inspired flavor,” Shisler said. “Customers are really responding to the smoky taste of our dashi stock — it’s a perfect match with salmon, Chilean sea bass or scallops.”

In an impressive vote of confidence for Good Clean Food, the company’s Cacciatore Sauce was featured on the Best Cooking Sauces list in the March 2008 issue of Real Simple magazine, where it was hailed for its flavor and ease of use: “Tasters gushed that this classic, chock-full of onions, yellow peppers, herbs, and chunky mushrooms, had ‘the perfect balance of spiciness and sweetness.’”

Additionally, Parenting magazine’s parenting.com recently selected the company’s Maine cider sauce as its Daily Fave. “Turn that boring bird into a gourmet meal with this ultra-convenient sauce. Just pour it over a pound of skillet-browned chicken and simmer for 15 minutes. It will be infused with a mild, kid-pleasing apple flavor.

For more information and a list of distributors, visit goodcleanfood.com.