Homemade schezwan sauce recipe | How to make schezwan sauce at home
Schezwan sauce recipe-Avery delicious fiery hot sweet and sour sauce,used in many Indo Chinese recipes,very easy step by step recipe!
Servings: 3
Calories: 178kcal
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup chilli flakes or 20 dried red chillies
- 1/8 cup spring onion greens chopped fine/celery/coriander stem
- 6-7 garlic cloves increase/decrease as per taste
- 1 small tomato pureed or 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon crushed ginger
- 1/8 cup sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 1 teaspoon black pepper powder
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Heat sesame oil in a kadai till smoking point.Add the chilli flakes and saute well for 3-5 minutes.
- Next add the crushed ginger-garlic.Saute till the raw smell goes off.
- Next add the chopped/blended tomato and mix well.Add spring onion greens and mix well/
- Add salt,sugar,vinegar and pepper powder.Saute well till the sauce thickens leaves the side of the kadai an starts to ooze out oil.Store schezwan sauce airtight in refrigerator.
Notes
1.If you like your sauce really pungent increase the amount of garlic
2.If using whole chillies,soak them in hot water and blend to a smooth paste.
3.Instead of vinegar you can use lemon juice.
4.You can add 1 teaspoon soy sauce and tomato sauce along with salt and pepper if you prefer
2.If using whole chillies,soak them in hot water and blend to a smooth paste.
3.Instead of vinegar you can use lemon juice.
4.You can add 1 teaspoon soy sauce and tomato sauce along with salt and pepper if you prefer
Nutrition
Calories: 178kcal