Red Chilli Sauce

How to Make Red Hot Chili Sauce| Chili Paste

Chili sauce (chili paste) is an easy condiment prepared with chili peppers; this sauce is usually made into a paste and used as a marinade, to season a dish after preparation or as a dipping sauce. Different varieties of chili sauce exist. However, the common ones are prepared with chilli pepper, sugar, vinegar, and garlic, the sugar is added to for sweetness and also to reduce the acids from the chilli pepper (sweet chilli sauce). Some people prefer it hot, hotter or mild in flavor and sometimes this sauce is prepared with red tomato as the main ingredient, whether you like your chili sauce hot, very hot or mild, it all depends on your choice. If you like your chilli sauce mild in taste, you can try taking out some of the seeds from the peepers, but there was no need of doing that because I wanted mine very hot and spicy at the same time.

How to make Red Chili sauce video

Sometimes, chilli sauce may have a thick texture or very light texture depending, you can also use green chilli peppers to make green chilli sauce which I will show in another post or use red peppers to make red chilli sauce like the above.

This homemade chilli sauce is a healthy version and is far better than store bought, you can simply make this and store in the fridge and use it whenever there is need. Chili sauce is perfect for simple stir fries, scrambled eggs, tortilla chips and noodles. This chilli sauce has a very sweet flavor, easy to make and very addictive, you can try it out for yourself. Also, see the video above for more details.

Red chilli sauce ingredients

• 15-20 pieces of red chilli peppers
• 6 cloves of garlic
• 1 medium ginger
• 1 medium red onion
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• cup vinegar
• 1 teaspoon of salt

Chili sauce ingredients

How to make red chilli sauce

1. Rinse the chilli peppers properly, remove the green stalk and cut into halve and set aside.
2. Peel garlic cloves, ginger and onion and mince them into smaller chunks.
3. Place a pan on heat, add 2 tablespoons of olive oil, add ginger, garlic and onion and saut for 1 minute.
4. Once they are nicely brown and fragrant, remove from heat to cool down for a while.
5. Add the chilli peppers, sugar, salt and vinegar and a cup of water, pulse the content until it turns out chunky in texture.
6. Add the sauted onion, garlic and ginger and blend until you have a smooth paste.
7. Pour the content into a medium pot and cook on medium to low heat until the water reduces and the sauce starts to thicken.
8. Remove from heat and leave to cool down on the counter, pour the chilli sauce into a jar with fitted lid.
9. Chili sauce can be stored in the fridge for 3 weeks or freeze it for 3 month. You can use this in any recipe that calls for chili sauce.

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How to make red chilli sauce with pictures

1. Rinse the chilli peppers properly, remove the green stalk and cut into halve and set aside.

Cutting of chilli peppers

2. Peel garlic cloves, ginger and onion and mince them into smaller chunks.

Minced garlic, ginger and onion

3. Place a pan on heat, add 2 tablespoons of olive oil, add ginger, garlic and onion and saut for 1 minute.

4. Once they are nicely brown and fragrant, remove from heat to cool down for a while.

The stir fried onion, garlic and ginger add a smoky flavor to the chilli sauce

5. Add the chilli peppers, sugar, salt and vinegar and a cup of water into a blender, pulse the content until it turns out chunky in texture.

Blend the chili and the other ingredients together

6. Add the sauted onion, garlic and ginger and blend until you have a smooth paste.

Once you have achieved this smooth texture, add into a pot and boil on medium heat

7. Pour the content into a medium pot and cook on medium to low heat until the water reduces and the sauce starts to thicken.

I prefer to boil this to get rid of the raw taste

8. Remove from heat and leave to cool down on the counter, pour the chilli sauce into a jar with fitted lid.

Cook until the liquid reduces

Chilli sauce is ready, store in a jar with at fitted jar lid

9. Chili sauce can be stored in the fridge for 3 weeks or freeze it for 3 month. You can use this in any recipe that calls for chili sauce.

This is the final outcome, thick and rich in flavour

Hot red chilli sauce