Shezwan sauce (Red chilly sauce)

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.