Sweet Chili Sauce

Sweet Chili Sauce

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 & INSPIRATION

The sauce adds a little punch to tomato soup, your next chilli con carnepan 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.