Sweet Chilli Sauce with a Bite.

What to do with sooooo many chillies?????? Make sweet chilli sauce! And you would not believe how simple it is.

Ingredients

Approx 350grams of chillies.

2 garlic cloves

2 1/4 cups of white vinegar

2 1/4 cups of white sugar

Halve about 70grams of chillies and place in a food processor. Halve and deseed the rest of the chillies and place in the food processor. If you want a bit more bite add more chillies with seeds, if you want less bite deseed more of the chillies.

Add garlic and 3/4 cup of the white vinegar to the food processor with the chillies.

Process until you have little flecks of chillies but not a liquid or paste.

Place the chilli mixture, the rest of the vinegar and the sugar into a saucepan on a low heat.

Heat and continuously stir the mixture for 5minutes until the sugar dissolves.

Increase heat and bring the mixture to a boil.

Once boiling turn down the heat and simmer for approximately 30-40minutes until you get a slightly syrupy consistency.

Pour liquid into sterilised bottles or jars.

I find the best way to sterilise glass bottles of jars is to wash them in warm water. Then place the jars in an oven preheated to 100 degrees celsius until they are dry. The rule is that if you want to put warm mixture into a jar the jar must be warm. If you want to put cold mixture into the jar you must let the jar cool to room temperature. Otherwise you will have to deal with exploding glass which is never fun! 

All that is left is to do is enjoy the sauce with some dim sims!