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Homemade sweet chili sauce: it’s sweet, spicy, simple, and delicious on pretty much anything. I’ve been buying sweet chili sauce for years, and I always wondered if I could make it better myself. I tried a few different methods, some more successful than others, and finally landed on this one as my favorite. I like this method because the consistency is great; not too syrupy or too watery.
If you’ve never tried sweet chili sauce before, you are really missing out. My favorite way to eat it as a dipping sauce for veggie spring rolls. But it’s great on chicken, shrimp, salmon, rice, or almost anything. Today I was so excited to eat it that I mixed it in with some quinoa and ate it as a snack.
There are two things that I think really make this recipe better than a store-bought sweet chili sauce: fresh ingredients and control over how spicy the sauce is. Making the sauce with fresh red jalapenos and fresh garlic really makes a difference. You can control how spicy or mild the sauce is by adding fewer or more jalapeno seeds. I love spicy sauce, so I used the seeds from 2 jalapenos. If you like mild sauce don’t use any seeds, and if you want to get crazy you can add the seeds from 3 jalapenos.
Homemade Sweet Chili Sauce
Serves: 1 cup
Ingredients
- 4 red jalapeno peppers
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1/2 cup rice vinegar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon corn starch
- 1 tablespoon water
Instructions
- Seed jalapenos and set aside as many seeds as you need to make the sauce either mild, medium, hot, or super hot: No seeds=mild, seeds from 1 pepper= medium, seeds from 2 peppers=hot, seeds from 3 peppers=super hot.
- Put all ingredients except jalapeno seeds, corn starch, and extra tablespoon of water in a blender and blend until smooth.
- Pour mixture in a sauce pan, stir in jalapeno seeds, and bring to a boil. Immediately reduce heat to low and simmer for 15-20 minutes.
- In a small bowl add water and cornstarch and mix until combined. Pour the cornstarch mixture in the sauce and mix until combined.
- Simmer for an additional 4-5 minutes, or until desired consistency is reached.
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