Homemade Schezwan Sauce Recipe/ How to make Schezwan Sauce

Schezwan Sauce/ Schizuan sauce  a very popular Chinese  sauce or dip used to flavour many dishes. It's a spicy sauce that taste good as a dip with any starters .
This is a real treat for all Chinese lovers esp the one who love spicy Indo Chinese dishes.Making this at home is very economical plus it becomes handy when you have  unexpected guest .You could just make mouthwatering dishes with this sauce  in no time.I always keep a bottle of schezwan sauce in the fridge .Schezwan sauce  goes well even with spring rolls/chicken lollipops.

 The bright red colour comes from the kashmiri chillies you could use both bedgi & kashmiri chillies.

Ingredients:
10-15 Kashmiri chillies
1/2 inch ginger
 5 to 6  garlic cloves
10 garlic cloves minced
1 inch ginger finely minced
1 tbsp tomato sauce/ketchup
1 tsp vinegar
2-2.5 tbsp oil
1 tsp sugar
salt to taste

Method:

• Soak the dry kashmiri chillies in hot water for 15-20 min.
• Grind the chillies ,garlic & ginger to smooth paste.
• Heat a pan add oil once oil is hot add the minced garlic and ginger and saute well for few minutes until raw smell goes off
  Then add the ground chilli-garlic paste saute till raw smell goes off.
•  Now add the tomato sauce,vinegar ,sugar ,salt & mix well.
• Let it cool before storing.
• Use it to make yummy schezwan dishes/ serve as a dip.