Sweet chili sauce is delicious with many dishes. The best known of course is as a sauce with spring rolls, but chili sauce is also very tasty on a wrap or poké bowl. In the supermarket - and certainly in the toko - there are many varieties for sale, but making chili sauce yourself is also very easy. With just a few ingredients you can make your own sweet chili sauce in 15 minutes.

I based the method for this recipe on the one in this recipe for Homemade Thai Sweet Chili Sauce from Hot Thai Kitchen ️. There they do use a lot more chilies, and in addition to the regular red chilies, Thai chilies are included in the chili sauce. I imagine this is an authentically spicy Thai chili sauce. The proportions I used are quite different. For example, I use fewer chilies, more water and less vinegar, resulting in a milder and less acidic chili sauce. Still, the flavor and thickness of the sauce are fine. Want a sauce with a stronger and spicier flavor? Then add some more and some spicier chilies, and possibly also play with the ratio water - vinegar.

This recipe is enough for about 250ml of sauce. In a sealed jar, it will keep for months in the refrigerator.

Tips

• The sweet chili sauce thickens slightly more as it cools.
• Also add some ginger
• The pungency of red peppers can vary greatly. Taste a small piece beforehand to determine the pungency and adjust the amount of chilies accordingly.
• With 4 chilies, this recipe resulted in a mild-spicy sweet and sour chili sauce. You can double the amount of chilies without adjusting the remaining ingredients .