Recipe for Sweet Chilli Sauce?

Posted by: mommamurf
Date: March 2, 2012 01:32AM

Does anyone have a recipe for homemade sweet chilli sauce? A neighbour has given me a small bowl of red and green chillies and I'm wondering what to do with them. Although I like a mild 'kick' to my food, I can't handle really hot stuff, so have not cooked much that contains fresh chillies. Also, I don't know how hot the different types and colours are. When a recipe calls for chilli, I usually use dried flakes from a small grinder which I bought some time ago and which, at current rate of usage, will probably see me out, as my dear mother-in-law used to say. However, my husband loves sweet chilli sauce, and I quite like it as a condiment or ingredient if it isn't too hot, so it occurred to me today that this might be the answer. I've googled it, but have been left quite puzzled. Many of the recipes I've found (and I haven't found many) use heaps of tomatoes, garlic, green peppers etc, but no actual chilli, and others do use some chilli, but only make a small amount - mainly to use then and there in a particular recipe. Can anyone advise me on this? Or, failing a recipe for the sauce, I'd welcome other ideas on how to use these little chillies - there are not that many, perhaps 12-15, but I hate to see anything going to waste. They are all small chillies, about the size of my thumb. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.



Edited 1 times. Last edit at 02/03/12 01:34AM by mommamurf.

Re: Recipe for Sweet Chilli Sauce?
Posted by: Irene Field
Date: March 2, 2012 03:48AM

I make Ruth Pretty's Tomato Chilli Jam which is on her page here [www.ruthpretty.co.nz]

I don't like it sweet so add no sugar whatsoever and just boil until it reduces, but if you are after a sweet sauce this may suit?

Re: Recipe for Sweet Chilli Sauce?
Posted by: Godmother
Date: March 2, 2012 03:58AM

Hi mommamurf. - I will send you a PM as I'm not sure where my recipe comes from.

Re: Recipe for Sweet Chilli Sauce?
Posted by: Griz
Date: March 2, 2012 04:05AM

[www.taste.com.au]

The sweet chilli caramel sauce in this recipe is TO DIE FOR GOOD. I've never served it to anyone who didn't eat it off the spoon! Keeps for ages too, in the fridge. Oh, yeah, it's really good with the beef too.

Re: Recipe for Sweet Chilli Sauce?
Posted by: Virgil
Date: March 2, 2012 09:15PM

Sweet chilli sauce should really be called sweet tomato sauce with chilli. I make it by pureeing 1 can of tomatoes with a couple of chillis, a clove of garlic and a heaped tsp of salt. Simmer with 1 cup of white sugar and 1/4 cup white vinegar until it starts to spit. This is so quick I never bother buying the stuff anymore. You can add ginger too if you're that way inclined. Add more chilli if you like it really hot.

Re: Recipe for Sweet Chilli Sauce?
Posted by: cantabcook
Date: March 2, 2012 10:32PM

Great thread thanks momma. Got heaps of chillis this year (it was cheaper to buy 6 smaller plants than one big one so I planted them all). Definatley going to try Virgils sauce. How long does it keep in the fridge Virgil??

You can freeze your chillis and use them as you need them. I threw a bag in the freezer last season and have just started using them in thai inspired dishes. Not for salads as they go a bit gooey but great for sauces and cooked dishes.

Re: Recipe for Sweet Chilli Sauce?
Posted by: mommamurf
Date: March 2, 2012 11:02PM

My thanks to all of you for a great variety of ideas and recipes, and to Godmother for your private message. All the recipes sound great and I think I have enough to give them all a go. Irene and Virgil - in your respective recipes, do I deseed the chillies or leave the seeds in? Godmother, what are red eshallots, please? And Griz - does it matter if the chillies are not the long kind - mine are short and fat! Cantabcook, I had no idea that I could freeze them, so thank you for that. I'm in the middle of making apricot and plum sauce (separately, not together), tomato relish, zucchini pickle, and pear and apricot jam - so I think I'll pop the chillies in the freezer until next week, and then try out a couple of these ideas. Thanks again.



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Re: Recipe for Sweet Chilli Sauce?
Posted by: Irene Field
Date: March 2, 2012 11:18PM

I leave the seeds in Momma, they are not noticeable at all

Re: Recipe for Sweet Chilli Sauce?
Posted by: Irene Field
Date: March 2, 2012 11:18PM

There was an echo in the room. Editing the doubled up post - apologies!!



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Re: Recipe for Sweet Chilli Sauce?
Posted by: mommamurf
Date: March 2, 2012 11:25PM

Thanks, Irene.