SWEET CHILLI SAUCE
These dates are so sweet it blows my mind. I used Medjool dates here. I rarely crave anything sweet these days, but suddenly felt like adding sweet chilli sauce to my rice dish. So I gave it a go playing with dates and chilli jam....
I love the outcome, it is sweet, spicy and sour all at the same time and I am happy to use it guilt free.
INGREDIENTS
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the amounts in the image do not represent the correct ratio...
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only 4 ingredients are needed
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70 gr (grams) Medjool date meat (5 dates)
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1 tea (teaspoon) lemon juice
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1/2 cup recently boiled and slightly cooled water
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1/4 cup cold water
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2 TB (tablespoons) chilli jam, click here for home made chilli jam, or use sriracha sauce, if you don't mind the high sugar content in sriracha sauce
METHOD
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remove pips from dates and cut them a little smaller
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I place all the ingredients into an old pickle jar, my stick blender just fits
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or use your blender
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add 1/2 cup hot water, make sure it is not straight from the kettle, as you do not want to break the glass container!
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add 1/2 tea lemon juice
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blend all this until fairly smooth
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then add 2 TB chilli jam and 1/4 cup of cold water
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blend until smooth
SWEET CHILLI SAUCE
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I have used about 2 TB of this on my fried rice, sooo good!
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suddenly it makes store bought chilli sauce taste very artificial....
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store it in an airtight container, I use an old mustard jar
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it should keep at least for 1 week in the fridge
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halve the recipe if you want to try it first