Grammy's Kitchen · Chili · Sweet Chili Sauce
One of 163 chili recipes we measured
It ranks #1 of 163 for gravy quality among the chili recipes we compared. 233 cooks on www.thespruceeats.com rate it 4.1★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 163.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 0% | 23% |
| fat | 0% | 1% |
| aromatics | 0% | 16% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| vegetables and beans | 0% | 58% |
| collagen idx | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.0 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 120 g | 1/2 cup rice vinegar (or white vinegar) |
| 100 g | 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons white granulated sugar |
| 59 g | 1/4 cup water |
| 51 g | 3 tablespoons fish sauce |
| 30 g | 2 tablespoons sherry (or cooking sherry) |
| 9 g | 3 cloves garlic (minced) |
| 6 g | 1/2 to 1 tablespoon dried crushed chile pepper (red pepper flakes) |
| 12 g | 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch |
| 52 g | 3 to 4 tablespoons cool water |
Method: 7 steps, published by www.thespruceeats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I used cooking sake instead of sherry because its what I had lying around and it came out nice! Im also following a low fodmap diet and so I (sadly) left out the garlic. I know it would be so much better with the garlic but its the best I can have while Im on ” — a cook
“Not sure if I had different fish sauce (use an imported brand from Thailand) but the color of mine was soooo dark. It's possible the sugar could've darkened as it cooked, but it was rather dark right from the get-go. It looks like molasses! The taste is alrigh” — a cook