Most of us in India like our food to be robust, packed with flavours that is spicy hot. Be it our own Indian cuisine or any other cuisine that needs to be made palatable for us. We like it to be masaledar and chatpata. In this article you will find some of the best chilli sauces that will add flavor your food and make you look like a master chef.
1. Harissa Sauce
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A standard harissa sauce includes a blend of hot smoked chilli peppers, garlic, olive oil and spices, like cumin, coriander, caraway and sometimes mint as well. Our version however is similar just with the addition of red bell pepper which is equally authentic.
It is said to be Tunisian in origin. It is a condiment used in placed like Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
You could always use the harissa to marinade as well.
Try making these recipes with the Harissa Sauce:
2. Chilli Garlic Sauce
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A pungent chilli sauce made by combining spicy thai bird's eye chilli and fresh garlic, this chilli garlic sauce can be used as a stir fry sauce or as a dip sauce or even better as a marinade.
Combine it along with some soy sauce and tomato ketchup.
Can be put together at home in a jiffy. Store it in your fridge and use it as you please.
Serve it along with
3. Tabasco Sauce
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This specific chilli sauce uses tabasco peppers. they are made with three simple ingredients - peppers, salt and vinegar. It has a thin watery like consistency, but hot as ever. Tabasco sauce is a brand by itself that is produced by Mcilhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana.
This brand of tabasco sauce has different variants like
- Green pepper sauce
- Chipotle pepper sauce
- Garlic pepper sauce
- Habanero sauce
- Red pepper Sauce
These sauces have added flavours and peppers to the original tabasco sauce. They are said to have a shelf life of 5 years. They can be used to flavour meats and vegetables, dips, as part of marinades or just as a condiment for those who love their food to be hot and spicy.
Serve it along with or use in recipes like
4. Hot & Sweet Chilli Sauce
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Popularised by the Maggi brand here in India, the sweet and chilli sauce is a mix of tomato ketchup and red chilli sauce. Most Indo Chinese recipes use this to make their fried rice and noodle recipes. Commonly eaten with sandwiches, bread omelette or even along with deep fried appetisers.
Serve it along with
5. Peri Peri Sauce
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Peri Peri or Piri Piri as it is commonly know is a chili sauce from the African continent. This chili sauce along with spicy African Bird's eye red chilies, garlic, salt and vinegar also uses onions, that make it a different variant of chili sauce.
Popularised in India by the famous chain of restaurants called Nando's that have their branded Peri Peri sauce.
You will often find menus in various restaurants that offer dishes like - piri piri fries, peri peri chicken, various dips by leading brands.
Use this sauce to make
6. Green Chilli Sauce
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This one stands out in terms of colour, made with green chillies sand not red like all the other sauces. The ingredients used to make this sauce include salt and vinegar just like the other sauces , however this one is much thicker similar to that of tomato ketchup. Used in Indo Chinese recipes an Asian recipes alike.
Use this Green Chilli sauce to make:
7. Bhut Jolokia Sauce
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Also known as Ghost pepper is said to be the spiciest chilies on the planet. It is cultivated in the Northeast Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur.
It is used both while its fresh and dried. It is popularly used in combination with pork or dried or fermented fish in North Eastern states.
Brands like Pico and Sprig sell this Bhut Jolokia sauce, by adding ingredients that bring down its heat.
So do try these in your kitchen and tell us how you used these sauces
8. Sriracha Sauce
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Sriracha sauce is a sweet chilli sauce where one of the main ingredients along with chillies is also some amount of sugar. It has a thick tomato ketchup like consistency. It gets its name from the coastal city of Si Racha, in Chonburi Province of eastern Thailand. The Real Thai version is a lot sweeter and thinner than Huy Fong Foods sauce. Huy Fong Foods, Real Thai to name a few have excellent tasting Sriracha sauce depending on the way you like it. In Thailand, it is used as a dipping sauce mainly for seafood. However we could use it as a stir fry sauce, serving condiment or even as a marinade all by itself.
Use it to make dips, in patties, burgers, cheese toast recipes and the sky's the limit.
Try our recipes with Sriracha sauces:
9. Thai Sweet Chili Sauce
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This Thai style of chilli sauce is equally, sweet and spicy when it hits your palette. This chilli sauce is firsts made by simmering sugar syrup. Other ingredients like chilies, garlic, ginger are added and finally thickened by cornstarch slurry.
Serve this sweet chilli sauce along with: