Green Chilly Sauce

Green Chilli Sauce

When the ever hungry teenage children demand fast food specially Noodles at the drop of hat there is a need of a healthy, pure and less expensive sauce which is ready at hand.What does one do! Well make them at home as I did, and the yummy taste made the sauce a hit not only with the kids but with their mothers also as they used it with Pakoras and other snacks.

Preparation Time: 30 min.(Soaking time not Included)

Servings: 300 ml of thick sauce

Ingredients required

• 50gm Dark Green chilies 

Green Chillies

• 8-10 Kashmiri Green Chilies(for beautiful green color)

Kashmiri Green Chillies

• 200 ml White Vinegar 
• 2 teaspoons Salt 
• 5-6 Garlic cloves 
• 2 Inch piece Ginger
• 2 Medium size Potatoes

Directions to prepare Green Chilly Sauce: 

• Wash, peel and cut ginger to small pieces.
• Peel and cut garlic.
• Cut both type chillies to pieces.
• Take Green chilli pieces, garlic, ginger in a bowl and soak them in 100 ml. vinegar for one day.

Green Chilli, garlic, ginger after soaking

•  Put the soaked mixture in a grinder mixer and grind to paste
• Add 50 ml. water during grinding.

Paste of chilli,garlic,ginger

• Boil the potatoes.
• Peel the boiled potatoes and crush to small pieces.
•  Add boiled crushed potatoes to the chilli paste and grind again till all ingredients are one soft homogeneous paste. 

Paste after adding Potato

• Take out the above mixture in a bowl and add vinegar till in turns into consistency of sauce.

Sauce ready for bottling

• Store in a glass bottle.

Green Chilli Sauce

 Tips:

• Plastic bottles should be avoided.
• If you do not like your sauce to be too sour with vinegar then instead 200 ml. vinegar you can take vinegar water mixture. (100 ml water + 100 ml. vinegar)

Suggested Variation:

• Those who do not like garlic or do not eat garlic can omit it.
• The sauce can be made of different flavor by adding more garlic and no ginger, or no garlic and more ginger. 

Red Chilli Sauce

Please store me in a bottle says the red chilli sauce

Red chilli sauce

 Red chilli sauce is most like sauce in my family as it goes very well with noodles, pakoras and most of the salty snacks.When made at home one can always custom make it according to ones need. So I always make the sauces at home. Try this red chilli sauce and you will know the difference between home made and marketed sauce yourself.

 Preparation Time:20 min.(soaking time not included)

Cooking Time: 15min. (to boil potatoes)

Servings: Makes 200 - 300 ml. sauce.

Ingredients required

• 50gm Red chilies 
• 8-10 Red Kashmiri Chilies(for beautiful red color)
• 250 ml White Vinegar 
• 2 teaspoons Salt 
• 5-6 Garlic cloves peeled and cut 
• 2 inches piece Ginger, washed, dried, cleaned and cut
• 2 medium size or 3 small size Potatoes, boiled, peeled and cut

Directions to prepare Red Chilly Sauce

• Take all  ingredients except potatoes and soak them in 100 ml. vinegar for 2 days. 
• Chilies will become soft. Put them in a grinder mixer and grind to paste
• Add potatoes and grind again till all ingredients are one soft homogeneous paste. 

Paste of soaked red chillies and boiled potatoes in vinegar

• Take out the above mixture in a bowl and add vinegar till in turns into consistency of sauce.

Red chilli sauce ready to be bottled

• Store in a glass bottle, Plastic bottles should be avoided.

Red chilli sauce

 Tips:

• If you want the color to be more red and sauce to be less hot decrease the amount of red chillies and increase the amount of Kashmiri mirchi as per your taste. 

Suggest Variations:

• To change the flavor cloves/Cinnamon can also be added.