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Shezwan sauce (Red chilly sauce)

Shezwan sauce

Indo – Chinese based dish, Shezwan sauce is used in many dishes such as chilly chicken, Shezwan fried rice, etc.
This is a famous street food in India.

Ingredients

  • Dried red chillies ( 50 gms)
  • Cooking oil (2 tbsp)
  • Ginger (1/2 inch, chopped)
  • Garlic (9 cloves, chopped)
  • Tomato sauce (50 gms)
  • Water (enough to immerse the dried red chillies)

Method

  • Water (enough to immerse the dried red chillies)
  • In a pot, add dried red chillies, water and boil it for 20 minutes.
  • Bring it to a room temperature and drain away the water.
  • Grind the cooked red chillies to form a coarse paste.
  • The Chilly paste is now ready. Keep it aside.
  • Heat a pan, add oil.
  • Add ginger & garlic and saute till the garlic turns light golden in color.
  • Add Chilly paste (2 tbsp) into it and saute for 3 minutes.
  • Add tomato sauce and saute for 1 minute.
  • Shezwan Sauce or Red chilly sauce is now ready.

It can be used in Indo – Chinese dishes such as Shezwan fried rice, Gobi Manchurian, Chilly chicken, etc.

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