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Sweet and sour chili sauce is an essential spice when enjoying delicious grilled dishes. It elevates the flavor, making the dish more enticing and complete. Let Mytour enrich your cooking repertoire with an easy recipe for sweet and sour chili sauce right at home!
1. Guide on how to make simple sweet and sour chili sauce
Sweet and sour chili sauce is a common dipping sauce paired with various delicious dishes, especially fried ones. Making sweet and sour chili sauce is not difficult at all. You can prepare it at home and store it in a clean jar for gradual consumption.
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Prepare the Ingredients
- Chili peppers: 2 pieces
- Ginger: ½ root
- Garlic: 5 – 6 cloves
- Cornstarch: 2 tablespoons
- Sugar: 3 – 4 tablespoons
- Vinegar: 4 tablespoons
- Tomato sauce: 2 teaspoons
- Chili sauce: 4 teaspoons
- Tools: Specialized spice grinder/ Multi-purpose blender
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How to Make Sweet and Sour Chili Sauce
Step 1: Prepare the Ingredients
- Clean ginger, chili, and garlic.
- Peel and wash the ginger, then slice it.
- Peel the garlic and place it in a clean bowl.
- Remove the stems from the chili and cut it into sections.
- Put cornstarch in a clean bowl and add about 30ml of water, then mix it by hand to prevent lumps.
Step 2: Blend the Mixture
- Place all the prepped ingredients including chili, ginger, and garlic in the spice grinder of a multi-purpose blender and grind until smooth.
- Turn off the machine and transfer the entire mixture to a clean bowl/plate.
Step 3: Cook Sweet and Sour Chili Sauce
- To make sweet and sour chili sauce: pour about 50ml of filtered water into a pot, add 4 tablespoons of vinegar, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce, and 2 tablespoons of chili sauce.
- Use a clean fork/spoon to stir well, ensuring the spices dissolve. Place the pot on medium heat.
- Once the sauce is boiling, pour in the blended mixture of chili, ginger, and garlic, and stir for about 2 minutes.
- Add the prepared cornstarch mixture from step 1, pouring and stirring simultaneously to dissolve the starch and create thickness for the dipping sauce.
The finished product after completion
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3. Key reminders when making sweet and sour chili sauce
During the process of making sweet and sour chili sauce, remember to keep in mind a few key points:
- Choose fresh red chili peppers with a natural aroma. Good chili peppers are those with the stem still attached firmly to the fruit.
- When grinding the chili sauce, avoid over-processing as it may compromise the quality of the final product.
- After cooking the chili sauce, you can enjoy it immediately or let it cool, pour it into an airtight container, and store it in the refrigerator.
Here are detailed suggestions from Mytour Blog on how to make simple sweet and sour chili sauce. Making chili sauce yourself not only helps you save on dipping sauce expenses but also allows you to easily adjust the flavor to suit everyone in the family!
Check out other dipping sauce recipes:
- How to make lemongrass fish sauce
- How to make rice paper sauce
