Schezwan chutney / SCHEZWAN sauce recipe

                                                             SCHEZWAN CHUTNEY / SCHEZWAN SAUCE

INGREDIENTS

• 30 – red dry kashmiri chillies
• 20 – garlic cloves finely chopped
• 1 tsp – finely chopped ginger
• 2 tbsp – tomato sauce
• 1 tbsp – soya sauce
• 1tbsp – sugar
• 2 tsp – vinegar
• 1 tsp – pepper powder OR triphal [ sichaun pepper ] powder
• Salt as per taste
• ¼ cup or more oil

PREPARATION

Cut the top part of chillies, split it from middle and remove all the seeds if using spicy red chilli . Soak it in hot water for 30 mins. Drain the red chillies . [ reserve ½ cup of the water ] Grind it with salt to a fine paste by adding water. Keep aside.

**To reduce soaking time ,you can boil the red chillies for 5 mins.

METHOD

Heat oil in a pan .

Add the garlic and ginger and fry [ it should not burn and change colour ]

Add the chilli paste and mix well .

Add tomato sauce, soya sauce, sugar, pepper powder and mix well.

Adjust salt as we had already added while grinding the red chilly.

Simmer it for 5 mins till oil separates well.

Cool it and store it in a air tight container.

VARIATION – For instant chutney , use red chilli pwdr instead of red chilli paste .

NOTES

1. Serve the sauce with any snacks OR to make fried rice or noodles.
2. Some also add finely chopped onions , I have not added .
3. You take a combo of 2 red chillies ,half of Kashmiri for red colour and half of other spicy red chilli for spiciness.
4. The chillies have to be deseeded to reduce the spiciness ,if less spicy then let the seeds be there .
5. Use more oil ,the oil should float on the top as it increase the shelf life of the sauce.
6. You can add a tbsp of finely chopped celery.
7. You can refrigerate it for a month.
8. Sichuan pepper gives a unique flavour to the sauce.
9. In hotels they add lot of orange food colour.

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