Spicy Chilli

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⏱ 10 mins 🍽 10 serving(s) 🏷 Sauces

This recipe creates a piquant chilli sauce, blending fresh birds eye chillies with shallots, garlic, and shrimp paste. The mixture is balanced with lime juice and sugar, then seasoned to taste. It yields a versatile condiment that can be bottled and chilled for later use, offering a customisable level of heat.

Spicy Chilli

Ingredients

  • 400 g fresh birds eye chiles, blend
  • 200 g shallots, blend
  • 100 g garlic, blend
  • 2 teaspoons dried shrimp paste, blend (fish sauce sub)
  • 50 ml lime juice
  • 50 g sugar
  • salt and pepper (to taste)
  • soy sauce (optional)

Method

  1. Take the seeds out of the chillies to reduce their heat. Process all the listed ingredients together in a blender.
  2. Season the blended mixture with salt and pepper according to your preference. You may wish to stir in extra sugar and lime juice just before serving if a milder flavour is desired.
  3. Transfer the finished sauce into a bottle. It is best stored in the refrigerator.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium7800 mg

Recipe details

CategorySauces
Authorfoodcrazee