Homemade Chili Garlic Sauce
Spice up your dishes with our latest obsession: a garlic-chili sauce featuring shallots, vinegar, sugar, sesame oil, and fish sauce. Perfect for dipping, drizzling, or marinating.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 2 mins
- Total Time: 12 mins
- Yield: 1 cup
- Category: Condiment
- Cuisine: Indo-Chinese
Ingredients
- Garlic (medium size) : 2 heads
- Red Chilli pepper (dried or fresh) : 20-25
- Shallots : 2
- White Vinegar : 2-3 tbsp
- Sugar : 1 tbsp
- Peanut or sesame oil : 2-3 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Fish sauce : 1 tsp (if using)
Instructions
- Peel the cloves of garlic and roast it lightly on a griddle with help of few drops of oil. You can dry roast it too, but with oil it releases a nice garlicy aroma.
- If you are using fresh Thai bird eye chilli, then you can chop them and directly proceed with the recipe.
- Else if you are using Chinese dried red chilli pepper, then de seed them and soak them in water till they become tender.
- In a blender, blend garlic, red chilli pepper, salt, sugar and vinegar to a fine paste.
- Mince the shallots.
- Heat the oil lightly, saute the shallots gently till the rawness disappear.
- Switch off the heat and add the chilli garlic paste, blend it well.
- Check for salt and sugar.
- Add fish sauce if you are using.
- Blend it well and let it stand for at least two hours before using it in the recipe.
- The waiting time will allow the flavors to mingle well.
Notes
You can blend the shallots together with the chilli garlic to get a smoother texture.
Since I love the shallots to be finely minced, hence I have not blended it. It gives a crunchy texture to the sauce. You can add oil without heating it too. Heating the oil releases the aroma though.
Find it online: https://honestcooking.com/homemade-chili-garlic-sauce/