Easy Thai Style Sweet Chili Sauce

Asian sweet chili sauce in a wide mouthed canning jar

Easy Thai Style Sweet Chili Sauce

This homemade sweet chili sauce recipe is gluten free, and has the right amount of sweet and spicy flavor. A perfect Thai chili sauce for those spring rolls, potstickers, or egg rolls. With a few ingredients, you'll have your own nam chim kai, a dipping sauce for chicken, instead of that store bought stuff with all the preservatives!

Course sauces

Cuisine Asian

Keyword how to make sweet chili sauce, recipe for chili sauce, sweet asian chili sauce, sweet chili sauce recipe, thai sweet chili sauce

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 15

Resting Time 15

Total Time 40

Servings quart

Calories 1215kcal

Author Joe Morales

Equipment

Ingredients

1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup water
1 cup rice vinegar
5 garlic cloves minced
4 sweet peppers small dice
2 serrano peppers small dice
1 inch piece ginger root small dice
1 tablespoon Soy Sauce
3 teaspoons corn starch

Instructions

Mix sugar and water in a medium saucepan over medium heat. About 5 minutes.
Lower heat, stir in soy sauce, vinegar, peppers, garlic, and ginger. Simmer for about 5 minutes.
Whisk in cornstarch, making sure it is fully incorporated and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat and continue to simmer until thickened, about 5 minutes.
Remove from heat, allow to cool about 15 minutes.
Pour into a heatproof container and store it in the refrigerator.

Notes

You can use a food processor to chop the ingredients.
I do not recommend a magic bullet to chop the ingredients because it will chop them too finely.
The finished product will be runny but once it cools and chills, it will set and become thicker.

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