Sweet Chilli Sauce – a delicious sauce that is so easy to make!
If you enjoy adding a boost of flavour to your food look no further – this is the recipe for you.
This Sweet Chilli Sauce is an enormously popular condiment and there are endless possibilities for its use.
It is an essential condiment to many Asian recipes but also finds itself very much at home in Western cuisine. Just think of it accompanying hot, crispy potato chips. Delicious! It is also very simple to make and provides the satisfaction of not just knowing it’s your own creation but knowing the quality of ingredients it contains; there are no surprise additives here.
With just six ingredients (not counting the water) you can have this Sweet Chilli Sauce prepared in little over 20 minutes.
The recipe uses long red chillies which are generally a milder chilli. If you like very hot chilli you may prefer to substitute one of the long red chillies for two (or three) bird’s eye chillies.
This delicious sauce goes perfectly with our Tofu Sesame Toasts, Oven Baked Beef Meatballs and Onion Patties.
What is your favourite was to enjoy this delicious sauce? I love to use it as a dip for sweet potato fries!
If you give this recipe a try, please let us know in the comments.
Enjoy!
Xx Alex and Faye
P.S. We love to serve the sweet chilli sauce with:
Grilled Chicken Burger by Cook it Real Good
Potato Wedges by Cook it Real Good
Sweet Chilli Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar
- 3 cloves garlic finely peeled and chopped
- 4 long red chillies * finely chopped with seeds included
- 1 1/2 tbsp cornflour/corn starch *
- 2 tbsp cold water
Instructions
- The long, red chillies are generally mild, but not always, so as a precautionary measure when chopping them you may choose to wear disposable gloves.
- In a small saucepan place the sugar, 1 cup water, rice wine vinegar, garlic and chillies. Bring to a boil, stirring to disolve the sugar and simmer rapidly on medium to high heat for 12 minutes.
- Mix the cornflour with the cold water. Lower the heat, and re-stir the cornflour and water mixture as the cornflour tends to settle if made a little in advance.
- Add the cornflour and water to the chillies, stir well and simmer for about 3 minutes.
- Allow the mixture to cool for a few minutes. This helps to evenly distribute the chillies through the mixture.
- Decant into a sterilised* jar or bottle.
Notes
Nutrition
Made this recipe but with White wine vinegar as rice vinegar not available. Have done it twice now and about to do a third batch. Everyone loves it. I use “dados de moça” 0r “girls fingers” peppers which I think are what you would call cayenne. I left out the seeds as the peppers are quite hot. Great relish on burgers or BBQ, and also using for Chinese, Crispy Chilli beef or chicken which is also a very easy and tasty meal. I am now growing my own peppers, so should be totally home made in a couple of months.
Hello Michael, I am delighted to hear that you have been making the Sweet Chilli Sauce and the ways in which you have been using it. It will be especially good with homegrown peppers. Thank you so much for taking the time to let me know. Kind regards, Alex
Easy, worth trying. I doubled the recipe as my home grown chillies 🌶 are prolific. Didn’t change the recipe at all.
Hello Lyn, I am so pleased that you enjoyed the Sweet Chilli Sauce and appreciate your feedback. How fantastic that you were able to use your own homegrown chillies. 🙂
I doubled the recipe and it still came out really well. It tastes great! I added a little bit of salt for personal preference and used home grown jalapeños instead of cayenne peppers. I’ll definitely be keeping this recipe for sure.
Thank you for sharing, Nicole – so pleased to hear that 🙂
love this, i have a glut of birds eye chillies would ths work with those or would you suggest something else
Hi Christine!
You can certainly use the birds eye chillies here.
You could also try this recipe: Preserved Chillies in Oil
Hi hiw long can this sauce be stored for. And should it be kept in fridge
Hello,
It will last for 2-3 months in the fridge.
Enjoy!
Utterly delicious!!! I have made bottles of this for friends and family as Christmas gifts 👏
Hi Jo!
That is such a great gift idea – I am so glad you like the chilli sauce 🙂
I love your fabulous homemade sweet chili sauce. This would be so amazing on some cubed chicken breast and served over rice. Yum!!
Aww, thank you, Heidi! I am so happy you enjoy it.
Definitely like your serving suggestion too – Yum!
This is so much better than the store bought sweet chili sauce and it’s so easy to make! My kids always ask for this when eating chicken tenders or nuggets. I get the mild red chilis for them but make another batch with hot chilis for myself since I love it spicy!
I am delighted to hear that you and your family enjoy the Sweet Chilli Sauce and just love that you make a milder batch to suit your children. So nice! 🙂
Can this be canned
Hi Katrina! We haven’t tried canning this. This will last for several months, as is.
We prefer to make it in smaller batches for maximum flavour.
Let me know if you try it. Kind regards, Alex
I hosted a dinner party with some friends and we challenged ourselves to make everything from scratch. I honestly had no idea that homemade would taste so much better but I can guarantee I will never buy store bought again!
Hi Amy, I am delighted to hear that you enjoyed the Sweet Chilli Sauce. Thank you so much for letting me know. 🙂