Sweet Chili Sauce

This homemade Sweet Chili Sauce Recipe is sweet, tangy, and just spicy enough from red chili to wake up dinner. You’ll get the best Thai sweet chili sauce recipe for chicken, shrimp, egg rolls, and weeknight bowls.

4.67 from 6 votes

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 15

Total Time 20

Course Condiment, Gluten-free

Cuisine Asian

Servings servings

Calories 57 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

⅔ cup water divided
⅔ cup rice vinegar
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons ginger freshly grated
5 cloves garlic
2 teaspoons low sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoons sambal oelek
1½ tablespoons cornstarch dissolved in 2 tablespoons of water

Instructions

Mix all ingredients except cornstarch in a small saucepan. Whisk together.
Bring sauce to a boil, stirring frequently. When the sugar has all dissolved, stir in the cornstarch slurry. Stir until blended, then cook for 1-2 minutes more.
Cool sauce to room temperature, then pour into an airtight jar and store in the refrigerator up to a week.

Notes

We used sambal oelek for this dish. It is an Asian staple made from ground red chili peppers in a vinegar sauce. We have grown to love it ever since using it in a General Tso's Chicken recipe last year. I think it's the perfect pepper source for this sauce. I have heard that you can find this at some bigger grocery stores and at Asian groceries, but we just buy ours on Amazon. It's not too expensive and very easy to find without driving around.

Makes about 2 cups of sauce. Store in the refrigerator up to a week.

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