Irresistible Spicy Sweet Chili Sauce

Without even exaggerating this spicy sweet chili sauce is truly irresistible. One sauce – under 10 minutes – use it on everything. 

The heat in chili sauce is balanced with sweetness from sugar giving it a wonderful combination. A copycat recipe of the most popular Thai Sweet Chili Sauce.

All you need is very basic readily available pantry ingredients and 10 minute ( lesser) time to make homemade chili garlic sauce. When homemade sauce comes together so easy and fast there’s no reason why you shouldn’t try making your own sweet chili sauce.

Like I always say homemade is always THE BEST. Homemade Thai Sweet Chili Sauce is exactly that – THE BEST! It’ll cost you lesser when made at home , plus you have total control of how much you want to make depending on how much you’ll use.

What is Sweet Chili Sauce

Sweet chili sauce is popular Thai dipping sauce that is great usually served with chicken, but pair’s great with prawns, fish; vegetables stir fry and many others.

The sauce is a wonderful combination of spicy, sweet, sour. You’ll find this chili sauce as one of the most popular dipping sauce served with so many dishes in Thai, Malaysia and many other countries.

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.

Sweet Chili Sauce Ingredients 

7 simple pantry ingredients goes into making your own sweet chili sauce.

Chilies – Dried red chili flakes or Fresh Thai red chilies, loads of it. This is after all chili sauce, got to have chilies right!

Garlic – again loads of it. The best combination of garlic and chilies is what you get in this sauce.

Sugar – White sugar is great choice for the recipe. Feel free you use honey instead of sugar if you want to avoid refined 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 – Mainly added as thickening agent. Corn starch slurry is added in the last, after all ingredients are boiled together for couple of minutes.

Spicy Sweet Chili Sauce Recipe 

As simple as sauce recipe can get, now you can easily make your own version of sweet chili sauce. The best part of making homemade sweet chili sauce… you have total control of everything you put in making the sauce.

If vinegar taste does not suit your palate, you can reduce the amount.

I like my sweet chili sauce a little more to the spicier side, so this recipe makes slightly spicy sweet chili sauce. Adjust chilies as per your spice level tolerance.

Also the type of chili you use to make this amazing dipping sauce will change the spiciness of the sauce. If you use red Jalapenos, the spice level would be less. If you use fresh Thai red chilies (Thai chilies are usually spicy) the sauce will turn out spicier compared to Jalapenos. Dried red chili flakes are spicy as well.

Note – Do try to keep the seeds from the chilies (if not all seeds, at least from few chilies). Not just it makes sweet chili sauce look gorgeous with red chilies, seeds and garlic it also adds the required spiciness to the sauce.

So choose your peppers correctly depending on what you want your sweet chili sauce to taste like.

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 – Sauce thickens even more 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.

How To Use Sweet Chili Sauce

We said you can use this Thai Sweet Chili Sauce on almost everything. That’s right – everything!

Use it  –

As marinade for seafood or meat – it goes great with shrimp and fish.

It’s lip-smacking combination of sweet chili sauce with chicken wings.

It’s popularly served with spring rolls as well.

Use it with stir fried vegetables.

Stir it with chowmein or noodles.

Whisk it with mayonnaise to make irresistible spicy sweet creamy appetizer dips.

Drizzle over cheese spread and us it to scoop out spread for chips.

Great dipping sauce for  egg rolls.

Drizzle it over lettuce wraps.

I would even drizzle over soup!

And so many more other ways to use.

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Irresistible Spicy Sweet Chili Sauce

Prep Time

3 mins

Cook Time

8 mins

Total Time

11 mins

 

Without even exaggerating this spicy sweet chili sauce is truly irresistible. One sauce - under 10 minutes - use it on everything.

Course: Sauces

Cuisine: Asian

Keyword: Chilies, garlic, Sauces, Thai dipping sauce

Servings: 2 cups

Calories: 441 kcal

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup rice vinegar
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 cup white sugar
• 6 garlic pods minced
• 1 tablespoon light soy sauce or gluten free tamari sauce
• 1 teaspoon fish sauce optional
• 4-6 teaspoon red chili flakes or 3 Thai birds eye chili peppers with seeds, chopped Or Thai sweet chili
• 3 teaspoon corn starch
• 2 tablespoon water

Instructions

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Once sauce reaches it’s desired thick consistency, turn off flame and let it cool completely before you transfer to air tight containers.
4. Note – Sauce thickens as it cools down.
5. 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.

Nutrition Facts

Irresistible Spicy Sweet Chili Sauce

Amount Per Serving

Calories 441

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 0g 0%

Saturated Fat 0g 0%

Cholesterol 0mg 0%

Sodium 811mg 34%

Potassium 133mg 4%

Total Carbohydrates 108g 36%

Dietary Fiber 1g 4%

Sugars 100g

Protein 2g 4%

Vitamin A 23.7%

Vitamin C 3.4%

Calcium 3%

Iron 5.9%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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