sweet chili sauce
Name of a savory
syrup-like sauce, typically used as a dip sauce for
spring rolls,
dumplings, etc. This sauce is rather viscous, transparent and orangey in
colour, and always has parts of red chilies, such as pits and skin,
floating in it. It is generally made with rice wine vinegar, sugar and
red, heart-shaped
chili
peppers, i.e.
sweet peppers, which are also known as cherry
peppers or pimiento peppers and strongly resemble red bell peppers.
Sometimes,
also
fish sauce
and
garlic is added.
Sweet chili sauce is
sometimes spelled sweet chilli sauce and is also known as Thai sweet chili
sauce.
In Thailand, it is called sot phrik wahn (ซอสพริกหวาน).
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