Chicken Rice at Home: Chilli Sauce
Iconic sauce for chicken rice
It needs to be spicy, refreshingly zesty and embody some texture from the fresh chillies.
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 0 minutes
Ingredients
3 big red chillies
2 - 3 garlic cloves, no skin
1 chilli padi
Juice from 10 - 12 calamansi
Stock from this recipe
Salt
Sugar
Light soy sauce
Tips
This makes ~120ml of chilli sauce, it is enough for 4 to 5 pax. Feel free to half/double/triple the quantities
The result is not spicy at all, but spiciness is subjective, as well as the source of chillies. If you are a spice lord, add 2 or even more chilli padi.
I did not add ginger to this recipe as we enjoy it without, but feel free to add, or make your own ginger sauce like the hawker stalls
This recipe works with just water as well, but the stock will give it a greater depth of flavour.
Add salt, sugar & light soy sauce as needed. I’ll personally add salt and sugar first and only add a bit of light soy sauce if I find that the sauce lacks a layer of umami. Otherwise, it is ok to skip the soy sauce.
Method
Roughly chop big red chillies
Add all the ingredients except lime juice and seasonings to the blender to blend
Add in lime juice, remember to remove the seeds, into the blender and blend again
Add salt and sugar, blend then taste
Adjust level of salt & sugar, add light soy sauce if needed
Blend as finely or roughly as you wish! We like ours with a bit of bite into the chillies.
Refrigerate until it’s time to serve with the rest of the dishes
We’re particular with the source of our ingredients, especially everyday sauces. This is the light soy sauce we recommend:
We love the ingredients that make this sauce!
Non-GMO soy beans, no colourings or flavour enhancers. You’ll be surprised to know that many common supermarket brands add flavour enhancers & colourings.
We’ve also tested several blenders in our kitchen for various recipes and found that this blender works the best at an affordable price. It’s what we used for this recipe:
This blender has 4 functions
The hand blender is perfect for homemade soups, regular blender for sauces like this recipe, electric whisk for mixing & baking and 3 types of spiralizers!
