Homemade Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce

written by The Recipe Exchange | May 17, 2021

Ingredients

4 (about 100g) long red chillies
3 (about 10g) red birds’ eye chilli
6 garlic cloves (about 30g) garlic, peeled
150ml water
100g white sugar
15ml white vinegar
15ml fish sauce
4g salt
5g potato starch or cornstarch mixed with 5g water

Directions

Place chillies and garlic in a food processor and pulse until roughly chopped.

In a large saucepan over medium-high heat, combine the water, sugar, vinegar, fish sauce and salt. Add the chilli and garlic mixture and simmer until sugar dissolves. Then turn heat down and simmer for 5 minutes to let the flavours develop.

Whisk in the potato starch mixture and gently simmer for another minute.

Allow to cool, then store in a glass jar in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.