
Sweet Chili Sauce
By Teresa Cutter
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What's great about it
Here's the perfect recipe if you feel like adding a boost of flavour and a touch of warmth to your meals. Chillies are a great source of beta-carotene which is an antioxidant and precursor to vitamin A, helping to promote vision and support reproduction, growth as well as a healthy immune system. It can raise your metabolic rate, increasing energy expenditure and metabolic rate. A purely delicious and healthy sweet chilli sauce that you can make in about 5 minutes.
Ingredients
1 long red chilli, deseeded and chopped
2 red capsicum, seeded and chopped
1 cm piece fresh grated ginger
4 fresh pitted dates
1 lime (see notes)
pinch of sea salt
generous pinch of black pepper
Method
- Combine chilli, capsicum, ginger, dates, lime, sea salt and pepper into a high performance blender like a Vitamix.
- Blend for 15 - 30 seconds until smooth.
- Pour into a glass jar store in the fridge for upto 2 weeks.
- Delight your taste buds and enjoy over your favourite dishes.
Notes and Inspiration
The sauce adds a little punch to tomato soup, your next chilli con carne, pan roasted salmon or organic poached chicken.
It also marries perfectly with my earth burgers and cinnamon roasted sweet potato and a side of thick natural yoghurt.
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