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Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce

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Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce - The perfect, easy dip to serve alongside coconut chicken, vegetables or chicken nuggets but also delicious on tacos!

This Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce is the perfect accompaniment to yesterday’s Coconut Shrimp recipe!

If you read yesterday post – today’s recipe was inspired by that same family dinner that we enjoyed last month after our daughter’s dance recital. My father-in-law’s coconut shrimp was served with a spicy chili sauce – but his complaint was that it was too spicy!

So my husband Jack set out to make the perfect Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce – and today’s recipe really strikes a perfect balance between sweet and spicy without being too spicy!

Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce - The perfect, easy dip to serve alongside coconut chicken, vegetables or chicken nuggets but also delicious on tacos!

And while I think that this dipping sauce is perfect with our coconut shrimp – it’s also delicious as a dipping sauce for fresh vegetables, with chicken nuggets, on fish tacos, or served with plain cooked shrimp.

If you’d like to make this Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce on the hotter side, simply keep some of the seeds from the peppers and add that into the sauce.

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Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce - A Family Feast
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Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce

Note: You can leave the pepper seeds in if you like this sauce to be hotter and spicier.

Yield: 1 1/2 cups 1x
Prep: 10 minsCook: 5 minsTotal: 15 minutes
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Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon roughly chopped fresh ginger
  • 2 tablespoons roughly chopped fresh garlic, about three cloves
  • 3 tablespoons roughly chopped fresh jalapeno or Serrano peppers, stemmed and seeds removed, see note
  • ¼ cup champagne vinegar
  • ½ cup water
  • ¼ cup ketchup
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt
  • 1 ½ teaspoons corn starch
  • 1 tablespoon water

Instructions

  1. In a blender, place ginger, garlic, peppers, vinegar, water, ketchup, sugar and salt. Puree until smooth but leave a few bits unprocessed, about 30 seconds.
  2. Place ingredients into a sauce pan and bring to a simmer and simmer for five minutes.
  3. In a small cup, mix corn starch and water and add to pan. Heat just to thickened, then remove from heat.
  4. Cool and refrigerate until ready to use. When ready, remove to room temperature before serving.
  5. Keep up to two weeks refrigerated.

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Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce - The perfect, easy dip to serve alongside coconut chicken, vegetables or chicken nuggets but also delicious on tacos!

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Martha is part of the husband-wife team that creates A Family Feast. She loves to cook and entertain for family and friends, and she believes that serving a great meal is one of the best ways to show someone that you care. Martha is a self-taught home cook, who loves to read cookbooks and try new recipes. After a decades-long career in business and online marketing, she now runs A Family Feast full-time. Her specialties are baking, desserts, vegetables and pasta dishes.

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  1. Angie says

    Posted on 7/29/15 at 9:56 am

    I love how easy this is to make! I use sweet chili sauce pretty often, but didn’t realize how easy it was to make!

    Reply
  2. Sarah Walker Caron (Sarah's Cucina Bella) says

    Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:22 pm

    Sweet chili dipping sauce is one of my favorite things to dip with! And with those coconut shrimp, I bet it’s magically good. YUM.

    Reply
  3. Ginny McMeans says

    Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:39 pm

    This is the best Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce I have seen. I am going in with some vegetable filled wontons. 🙂

    Reply
  4. heather | girlichef says

    Posted on 7/28/15 at 8:56 pm

    I can think of so many things I want to dip in this tempting sauce – it sounds so good (but I’ll start with coconut shrimp, please)!

    Reply
  5. Lana | Never Enough Thyme says

    Posted on 7/28/15 at 8:12 pm

    Oh yum! I can think of so many Asian style recipes where this would go perfectly on the side!

    Reply
  6. Amanda @ The Kitcheneer says

    Posted on 7/28/15 at 4:11 pm

    I want to make a batch of shrimp right now to go with this sauce! Looks so good!

    Reply
  7. The Food Hunter says

    Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:53 pm

    I’m allergic to shrimp but I can always dip chicken

    Reply
  8. Stephanie @Back for Seconds says

    Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:34 pm

    I have to make this soon. My husband loves sweet chili sauce!

    Reply
  9. animegirl1993 says

    Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:42 am

    Would this work with this recipe? http://www.iwashyoudry.com/2014/01/04/mcdonalds-copycat-sweet-chili-chicken-wrap/

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    • Martha says

      Posted on 7/28/15 at 12:36 pm

      Hi – I think it would! I’ve never had that wrap at McDonald’s – but it sounds like the sauce is very similar to our recipe!

      Reply
      • animegirl1993 says

        Posted on 7/28/15 at 12:54 pm

        Thank you

        Reply
  10. Tasha @thatssoyummy says

    Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:23 am

    I am loving this homemade sweet chili sauce and those coconut shrimp, YUM!

    Reply
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