Sweet chilli pepper sauce
Sweet chilli pepper sauce is sweet, spicy, and sticky. It tastes so good you will want to put it on everything.
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- ¼ cup vinegar
- ½ cup sugar
- 4 cloves garlic 1( tablespoon crushed garlic)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 pieces Shombo (fresh cayenne pepper)
- 4 scotch bonnet (ata rodo)
- 1 tablespoon cornflour
Instructions
- Wash and chop shombo and scotch bonnet, crush garlic cloves.
- Mix cornflour with 2 tablespoons water, set aside.
- In a small pot, put water, vinegar, sugar, garlic, salt, shombo and scotch bonnet.
- Place over medium heat and bring to a boil then reduce heat to a simmer.
- Simmer for 5 minutes, pepper will slightly soften and sugar dissolved into a syrup.
- Stir cornflour mixture to recombine, add to the sauce stirring all the time.
- Cook until thickened and everything is suspended, about 1 minute.
- Cool and store in an airtight container or use.
Notes
- Do not taste and redip your spoon (double dip), saliva enzymes will break down the sugar and make your sauce watery.
