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Sweet Chilli Sauce Recipe

December 6, 2016 By sue 2 Comments

Sweet Chilli Sauce Recipe

I’m not a great chilli fan usually but I do like sweet chilli sauce. So I decided to grow some chillies so that I could make this recipe. I put a few chilli seedlings in under my lemon tree thinking that I only needed a few and it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t do very well. Of course, they grew like triffids: up, through and over the lemon tree and swamping all my other capsicums and eggplant growing in that part of the garden. I harvested over 2kg of chillies and gave quite a lot away as well. You can just put them in the freezer whole if you don’t have time to deal with them immediately.

Chilli plants growing up, through and over the lemon tree
Chilli plants growing up, through and over the lemon tree
Ripe red chillies
Ripe red chillies

500g red chillies
3 cloves garlic
750ml white vinegar
3 cups sugar

Make sure you use gloves for this. I didn’t and thought that it was quite surprising that it wasn’t stinging my fingers as I de-seeded the chillies. Well! about half an hour later and my hands were just burning: under the fingernails, everywhere! And it lasted 2 days before they were anywhere near back to normal.

For 100g of chillies, trim the stems and cut in half keeping the seeds and place into a food processor.
For the remaining 400g of chillies, trim the stems, cut in half and remove the seeds, then place into the food processor.
Peel garlic and place into the food processor with 250ml of the vinegar.
Process until finely chopped.

Place the chillies into a large saucepan and add the sugar and remaining vinegar. Cook over a low heat, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes or until the sugar dissolves.
Increase the heat and bring the mixture to the boil. Then reduce the heat and simmer for 35-40 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the sauce thickens.
Pour sauce into sterilised glass bottles and seal.

I doubled the recipe and it was so well received that I will make another batch with my remaining chillies in the freezer.

Halved chillies
Halved chillies
Processed chillies
Processed chillies
Sweet chilli sauce
Sweet chilli sauce

 

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Comments

  1. Susan says

    May 27, 2022 at 6:58 am

    Oh absolutely fantastic! Finally a recipe that calls for more than 50g of chillies! Like you mine are usually triffids and I have a load of frozen chillies.

    One thing : do you think I really need to remove the seeds as we are really hot and spicy lovers?

    Thank you!

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    • sue says

      May 27, 2022 at 8:02 am

      If you really like it hot then give it a go. I would perhaps try half or three-quarters with seeds first to see how it goes (but then I can’t take it too hot). Over to you – have fun!

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