Sweet Chili Pineapple Sauce Recipe

A tropical pineapple sweet chili sauce!

Sweet chili sauce is one of my favourite condiments and it’s super easy to make at home! You pretty much just need to puree some chilies and garlic, add a liquid, sugar, vinegar and a thickener and you are have some tasty homemade sweet chili sauce! One of the nice things about the sweet chili sauce recipe is that you can change it up by adding different things and in this case I went with a tropical theme by adding pineapple! In addition to adding the pineapple I switched the sugar for palm sugar to add a depth of flavour. If you love sweet chili sauce then you’ll love this pineapple sweet chili sauce even more, both for the flavour and for the small chunks of pineapple which make this sweet chili sauce amazing!

Ingredients
▢1.5 cups white sugar
▢1 cup pineapple juice
▢½ cup rice vinegar or Apple cider vinegar
▢1 tbsp garlic minced
▢1-2 tbsp Red chili flakes ( I have added 2 small dry Bird’s eye chili while making flakes)
▢1 tbsp Tomato Ketchup (optional )
▢1 teaspoon salt (more as per taste)
▢2 tbsps cornflour
▢4 tbsps water cold

Instructions

1. In a large heavy bottom pan add sugar, pineapple juice , vinegar , salt. Bring the mixture to a boil.
2. Add chili flakes, minced garlic and ketchup. Boil on medium heat for 5 minutes.
3. Mix cornflour and cold water. Lower the heat and stir in slowly, trying to avoid lumps.
4. Cook the mixture on low heat till it thickens and comes to desired sauce like consistency. (The sauce will thicken when it cools down.)
5. Store cooled sauce in sterilized bottle. Refrigerate.