Irresistible Spicy Sweet Chili Sauce

Spicy sweet chili sauce has spicy, sour, sweet, and umami flavors. This Asian condiment is super easy to make from scratch and tastes better than bottled stuff. A great condiment for dipping spring rolls, potstickers, shrimp, or southern fried chicken.

All you need is readily available pantry ingredients and 10 minutes to make homemade chili garlic sauce.

Homemade is always the best. It’ll cost less when made at home, plus you have total control over the flavors you want to enhance and the quantity to make depending on the usage.

This Thai-style dipping sauce is best served with southern fried chicken, fried coconut shrimp, drizzled over pineapple fried rice, and more.

This Asian sweet chili garlic sauce is commonly made of peppers (fresh Thai chilies or red jalapenos or dried red chili flakes), sugar, salt, garlic, and rice vinegar thickened with slurry.

Ingredients

• Chilies – Dried red chili flakes or Fresh Thai red chilies can be used.
• Garlic – loads of it.
• Sugar – White granular sugar is best. Feel free you use honey instead of sugar.
• Rice Wine Vinegar – or any white vinegar would work.
• Soy sauce – To keep it healthier use low sodium light soy sauce.
• Fish Sauce – optional, can be added for packing in more flavors.
• Corn Starch – thickening agent. Corn starch slurry is added in the last.

Variations

You can add fresh grated ginger to the sauce. Cook it along with minced garlic.

Red chili flakes are best. You can also use fresh Thai red chilies (you might have to reduce the amount as Thai chilies are spicier), or use red fresno chilies for mild heat. So choose your peppers correctly depending on what you want your sauce to taste like.

I like my sweet & chili sauce a little more to the spicier side. Adjust chilies as per your spice level tolerance.

The type of chili you use will alter the spice levels of the sauce.

Note – Do try to keep the seeds from few chilies (if not all seeds, at least from few chilies).The sauce needs a level of heat in it.

Step-by-step Instructions

Step 1: Except cornstarch slurry add all ingredients into a saucepan.

Step 2: Bring it to a boil. Reduce heat to low and boil for 3 to 5 minutes. Stir frequently.

Step 3: Whisk corn starch in water until no lumps are seen. Slowly pour corn starch slurry while constantly stirring. Let it boil for 5 minutes more on low heat and keep stirring regularly.

Step 4: Once the sauce reaches it’s desired thick consistency, turn off flame and let it cool completely before you transfer to air tight containers.

Note – Sauce thickens even more as it cools down.

You can store chili sauce in air-tight glass jars in refrigerator for a month. Make sure you use clean dry spoon every time you use the sauce.

Best Tips

1. You can add fresh grated ginger to the sauce. Cook it along with minced garlic.
2. The spiciness of this sauce depends on the variety of dried chilies that you use. If using Thai bird eye chili, handle them with caution as it is hot.
3. The sauce can be used in stir-fry recipes, can be used as a dipping sauce for dumplings, spring rolls, and baked potato wedges, or drizzled over soups, and salads.

Serving suggestions

1. You can use it as a marinade for seafood or meat – it goes great with shrimp and fish.
2. It’s a lip-smacking combination with instant pot chicken wings.
3. It’s popularly served with spring rolls or fried shrimp.
4. Use it with stir-fried vegetables.
5. Stir it with chowmein or noodles.
6. Whisk it with mayonnaise to make irresistible spicy sweet creamy appetizer dips.
7. Drizzle over cheese spread and us it to scoop out spread for chips.
8. Drizzle it over lettuce wraps.
9. I would even drizzle over soup!

Storage

Allow the sauce to cool completely. Transfer to a clean, dry air-tight container and store it in the fridge for up to 1 month.

5 from 15 votes

📋Irresistible Spicy Sweet Chili Sauce

Jyothi Rajesh

Spicy sweet chili sauce has spicy, sour, sweet, and umami flavors. This Asian condiment is super easy to make from scratch and tastes better than bottled stuff. A great condiment for dipping spring rolls, potstickers, shrimp, or fried chicken.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 15 minutes mins

Course condiments, Sauces

Cuisine Asian

Servings 2 cups

Calories 441

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ ½ cup rice vinegar
• ▢ ½ cup water
• ▢ 1 cup white granuler sugar
• ▢ 6 cloves garlic minced
• ▢ 1 tablespoon light soy sauce or gluten free tamari sauce
• ▢ 1 teaspoon fish sauce optional
• ▢ 6 teaspoons red chili flakes or 3 Thai birds eye chili peppers with seeds
• ▢ 2 teaspoons corn starch
• ▢ 2 tablespoons water

Instructions

 

• To make your own sweet chili sauce, simply add in all ingredients except corn starch slurry into a sauce pan. Bring it to boil. Let everything boil for 3 to 5 minutes slow and steady.
• Then reduce flame to low, slowly add corn starch slurry (corn starch whisked with water) with constant stirring. Let it boil for 5 minutes more on very low flame and keep stirring regularly.
• Once sauce reaches it’s desired thick consistency, turn off flame and let it cool completely before you transfer to air tight containers.
• Note: The sauce thickens as it cools down.
• You can store sweet chili sauce in air tight bottles or glass jars in refrigerator for many months. Make sure you use clean dry spoon every time you open the bottle to use the sauce.

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Notes

1. 1. You can add fresh grated ginger to the sauce. Cook it along with minced garlic.
   2. The spiciness of this sauce depends on the variety of dried chilies that you use. If using Thai bird’s eye chili, handle them with caution as it is hot.
   3. The sauce can be used in stir-fry recipes, can be used as a dipping sauce for dumplings, spring rolls, and wedges, or drizzled over soups, and salads.

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Nutritional Info – Please remember that the nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on the products used.

Nutrition

Calories: 441kcalCarbohydrates: 108gProtein: 2gFat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 811mgPotassium: 133mgFiber: 1gSugar: 100gVitamin A: 1185IUVitamin C: 2.8mgCalcium: 30mgIron: 1.1mg

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