Easy Chili Sauce Recipe

There are lots of chili sauce recipes on the web but here is my variation. I grew some relatively mild chilies from nursery plants named “chenzo”, “cayenne” and “cheyenne” and this recipe worked for me, creating sauces that can be smeared thinly on bread with cheese or dolloped onto a plateful of food. The balsamic vinegar and “vecon” help to give a rounded taste.

Ingredients:

  • 65g chilies
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 20ml balsamic + 100ml white wine vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon sugar
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon “vecon” vegetable stock

Method:

  1. remove stalk from chilies but do not remove seeds etc and chop or mince finely
  2. chop the garlic
  3. boil up chopped ingredients with the vinegar until tender and to reduce the volume slightly and a thicker consistency is achieved. Use a non-metallic pan. I kept the lid on initially until the chilies were part-cooked and then removed it reduce the mix.
  4. puree the chili+vinegar mix in a blender along with the remainder of the ingredients. a small hand-held blender is perfect
  5. Decant into bottles (preferably sterlised with e.g. boiling water), allow to cool and refrigerate

For the “cheyenne” chilies, which were sweeter but milder, I used 90g rather than 65g.

Enjoy…

2 thoughts on “Easy Chili Sauce Recipe

  1. Hi I have just read your recipe for your Easy Chilli Sauce i can’t wait to try it.Thanks Catherine

  2. Hi Catherine – thanks for your comment. I made another batch this week with this season’s chillies and it came out good again.
    Hope it works for you.
    Cheers, Adam

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