Home-made sweet chilli sauce

I am totally addicted to sweet chilli sauce- I add it to loads of things and love the sweet/ savoury kick it gives.  I am very conscious that it is loaded with sugar which is why it tastes so good but a little of what we fancy does us good- right?

I decided to make my own.  My thinking is that while sugar is bad for us, we do need some in our diets and a home made version using all fresh natural ingredients with no preservatives has to better for us

I was really pleased with the results and delighted that it tastes as good as the real thing without the additives !

To make it you will need the following:

Ingredients for sweet chilli sauce

• 4 red peppers
• 2 tomatoes
• 100g red chillies
• 1 inch piece of fresh ginger
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 225g sugar
• 300 mls white wine vinegar
• 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• 2 tsps salt
• a few twists of ground black pepper

Instructions

• Roast the red peppers and remove the skins
• skin the tomatoes and remove the seeds (the best way to do this is to drop them into boiling water which loosens the skin)
• Peel the garlic cloves and ginger
• remove the seeds from the chillies
• place the peppers, tomatos, ginger, garlic and chillies in a food processor and blitz well
• add all the other ingredients to a pan and pour in the chilli mixture

• bring to the boil and then simmer for 20-30 minutes or until the mixture is thick and syrupy

Pour into sterilised jars
I hope that you enjoy this as much as me!