Chili Paste Recipe

This homemade chili paste is a spicy side condiment that goes very well with almost all the foods. If you want to make your food extra spicy this is the best way.

Ingredients:

• Chili Flakes – 130g
• Dried Shrimps – 60g
• Coconut Oil – 150ml
• Sugar – 3 tbsp
• Salt – 2 tsp
• Soya Sauce – 2 tbsp
• Tomato Sauce – 1 tbsp
• Big Onion – 01
• Curry Leaves – 2 springs
• Garlic Cloves – 12
• Ginger – 2” piece

How to Cook:

• Heat oil in a pan and dry sliced onion in it.
• Then fry garlic and ginger.
• After that fry curry leaves a bit.
• Finally add dried shrimps into oil and continue to fry until golden brown. Before frying, wash and dry these shrimps.
• Now add all fried ingredients into a blender cup and blend them until reasonably well mixed.
• Then mix sugar, salt, and soya sauce together and keep it aside.
• Again, heat oil in a pan and add chili flakes into it. As you mix you can see that all oil is absorbed by chili flakes.
• Then add dried shrimps paste.
• Add soya sauce mixture.
• Combine all together and adjust salt and sugar as per your taste.
• Finally add tomato sauce.
• After that transfer your chili paste into a sterilized glass bottle. Cover the lid tightly and let it rest for a day before using for better results.
• After making chili paste don’t keep it in the hot pan for a long time. If so, the oil will get absorbed by the hot pan. Oil in chili paste works to preserve it for a longer period.
• You can keep this around 2-3 months and eat. Always use a dry spoon to get chili paste from the bottle.