Hot Sauce Recipes

Ingredients:
5 large red chilies
10 garlic cloves
4 thumbs of fresh ginger
8 lime leaves
3 lemon grass stems
1 cup fresh cilantro leaves
1 1/2 cup sugar
3.5 fluid oz cider vinegar
1.5 fluid oz Asia fish sauce
1.5 fluid oz Tamari
4 tablespoons water

Directions:

1. De-stem the chilies, peel the ginger and garlic.
2. Place the chilies, garlic, ginger, lime leaves, lemon grass stems and cilantro in a food processor and blend to a coarse paste.
3. Heat the sugar with the water in a saucepan until the sugar dissolves.
4. Turn up the heat and boil the syrup until it turns to caramel, this should be around 5 minutes. Stir in the paste mixture and bring back to the boil.
5. Now add the cider vinegar, fish sauce and tamari and bring to the boil again and simmer for 2 minutes. Pour into sterilized jars and allow to cool before enjoying.