Schezwan Sauce


 

Tags: Pizzas, Sauces n Fillings

 

     Spicy Chilly, Garlic sauce with bold flavors of Schezwan peppers (also known as Sichuan Pepper)  mostly use in Indo- Chinese cooking!

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Schezwan Sauce is widely used in lots of Indo-Chinese recipes like Schezwan Noodles, Schezwan fried rice and many more.  🙂

          Authentic recipe of Sauce calls Schezwan peppers & celery (special ingredients – for unique flavor, i couldn’t get it :D),  but if you don’t have it.. Skip them 😉  Tastes equally good without them. You can also add tomato sauce/ ketchup to give more flavors to this sauce.

 

So, let’s start! 🙂

 

Ingredients:

 

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Dry red chillies (remove seeds) – 30

Oil- 3- 4 tbsp

Garlic (more)finely chopped – 15 pods

Ginger  finely chopped – 2 tsp

Tomato chopped – 1/2 (from 1 tomato)

Tomato sauce – 1 tbsp

Soy sauce – 1 tsp

Pepper powder -1 tsp

Vinegar – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

 

 

Method:

Take dry red chillies and remove all the seeds to reduce the spiciness a bit. Soak the red chillies in hot water for 1/2 an half. After that drain the water and grind red chillies along with chopped tomato, adding same drained water little by little, into fine paste.

Heat Oil in a pan, add chopped garlic, ginger, saute well for 2 minutes. Now add the red chilly paste, let it boil (till oil starts leaving/separating). Then add tomato sauce, soy sauce, pepper powder, vinegar, salt and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from fire and let it cool down. (you can store it in airtight container in fridge for multiple weeks.

 

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Note:
  • If you use Kashmiri red chillies, it’s okay to add it as such without removing seeds as they are less spicy.
  • You can skip tomato sauce instead.
  • You can also skip chopped tomato too, i used here to reduce the spiciness a bit
  • You can adjust vinegar & soy sauce to more/ less according to your taste.
  • Once cools down, transfer it into bottles and keep it in the fridge.
  • The sauce should stay good for at-least 4 weeks if refrigerated.
  • Always use clean & dry spoon to take out the sauce.

 

Enjoy eating Schezwan Noodles, Schezwan Fried rice with this special Sauce!!!

In coming time, I’ll be posting many of the recipes using Schezwan sauces 🙂

 

Love,

Nasi 🙂