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sweet chilli sauce

Very tasty sweet chilli sauce with just  a hint of ginger.   A real favourite in our family.

Photo of sweet chilli sauce bottles
Sweet chilli sauce in three different types of bottles.

Ingredients
  • 2 kg sugar.
  • 1.5 litres of cider vinegar
  • 300 g fresh red chillies
  • 100 g fresh garlic
  • 50 to 100 g of fresh ginger
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
 


directions
  1. Cut chillies lengthwise and scrape away the seeds.
  2. Puree ginger, garlic and chillies with some vinegar and place in a pot.
  3. Add the rest of vinegar, sugar and salt and stir.
  4. Cook on a slow boil until a syrupy consistency is reached.
  5. Pour into sterilised bottles and cap.
further notes
Makes around six small bottles of sauce.  I use medium hot chillies, however if you want to make it hotter add more chillies or use a hotter chilli variety such as Jalapeno.

This recipe is a little hotter than most commercial sweet chilli sauces, so if you want your sauce to be more like a commercial sweet chilli sauce then use fewer chillies.  Some people might want to add more salt.