Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Sweet Chili Sauce

The dressing for the Sesame Peanut Noodle Salad I made recently called for sweet chili sauce.  I didn't have any sweet chili sauce and wasn't sure I wanted to buy a whole jar of it.  So, I went looking for a recipe to make some myself.  I found a recipe on food.com - which I cannot find now.  I removed the link from my Sesame Peanut Noodles recipe, because I was going to post the chili sauce recipe separately.  And then I forgot to actually start this post and save the link here.


I have searched food.com repeatedly, and there are lots of sweet chili sauce recipes, but I just can't find this one.

Sweet Chili Sauce
adapted from a recipe on food.com

Ingredients:
  • 1 8-oz. can tomato sauce
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 T cider vinegar
  • 1/2 tsp. red chili flakes
  • 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
  • dash cloves
  • dash allspice
  • dash salt
Directions:
  1. In small saucepan, mix all ingredients.
  2. Simmer over low heat until thickened.
  3. Store in glass jar in refrigerator.

The original recipe did not call for any chili flakes - which seemed weird since it's called sweet chili sauce - so I added some.  Since I've never actually had sweet chili sauce, I'm not sure if this tastes like the kind you'd buy in the store or not, but it is a nice flavorful sauce, and it worked really well in my noodle salad - both times I made it. (so far)

Now, what else can I use this sauce for?  Because, even though I did not buy a whole jar just to make the Sesame Peanut Noodles, I do have quite a bit of yummy sauce. 

I recently saw an ad for Papa Murphy's Thai Chicken Pizza that I'm going to try making real soon - even though I haven't tried the 'real' thing yet.  I'm not sure what else.  Any ideas?

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