Vasusvegkitchen: 02/28/21

Sunday, 28 February 2021

Schezwan Chutney || How to prepare Schezwan chutney at home

Schezwan Chutney || Indo- Chinese Schezwan chutney with step by step pics and tips, it is very spicy and tasty recipe. We all love schezwan sauce and chutney a lot, it is very easy to prepare at home with easily available ingredients. We use schezwan chutney in many recipes like noodles, fries and to prepare many rice items. We always confuse the difference between schezwan chutney and schezwan sauce. The main difference is in its texture, taste and some ingredients. Use less spicy variety like byadigi variety red chilli, if you use Guntur red chilli chutney tastes very spicy that we cannot eat. If you like chutney very spicy use 3/4 : 1/2 of byadigi : guntur red chillies. Do check many chutney recipes in my blog & youtube channel surely you will like it.

Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge

Taking this hot fiery Indo- Chinese schezwan chutney to "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di, I bookmarked her baked apple to try soon. Do check her space for wonderful recipes. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.

This month theme was "Priya VJ" who blogs at "sweetspicytaste". Do check her space for wonderful and traditional recipes from TamilNadu cuisine. I bookmarked her Mexican bean rice recipe to try soon. This month I am paired with "Mayuri" who blogs at "Mayuris-jikoni", she is very talented chef, she is like my teacher who always guide me and inspiration to me. I love her write up a lot, for theme she gave ginger and oil as secret ingredients and in turn I gave garlic and cumin seeds, using these 2 ingredients, she prepared her mom's favorite Garlic and tomato chutney. I bookmarked her Strawberry choco chip cup cake, Brazilian carrot cake recipes to try soon. Do check out her space for wonderful recipes from different regions.

Schezwan Chutney

Preparation time : 10 minutes

Soak time : 1 hour

Cook Time : 20 minutes

Serves : 1 cup

Category : Chinese, Chutney's

Recipe Cuisine: Chinese

Main ingredients : Red chilli

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Byadigi red chillies - 25

garlic finely chopped - 1/2 cup

ginger finely chopped - 2 tsp

coriander stalks - 1 tsp

oil - 1/2 cup (adjust more as per your taste)

sugar - 3/4 tsp

vinegar - 3 tsp

pepper powder -1 tsp

salt - as per taste

Instructions

1) Soak byadigi red chillies in 1 to 2 cups of hot water for 1 hour.

2) Mean while peel ginger and garlic skin. Chop both ginger, garlic finely and keep it aside. Also finely chop coriander stalks and keep it aside.

3) After soaking red chilli size will double and becomes smooth. If not then cook it on low flames till it becomes smooth and let it cool to room temperature. Later take red chillies in a mixer jar grind it slightly coarse paste without adding water. ( Save red chilli soaked water).

4) Heat 1 cup of oil in a wide pan, to this add finely chopped garlic and ginger fry it on low flames till it changes color.

5) Now add prepared red chilli paste,1/4 cup red chilli soaked water to the above and mix well.

6) Later add salt, sugar to the above and mix everything well. Close the lid cook in on low flames till oil oozes out.

7) Now add vinegar, soya sauce, pepper powder mix everything well. and cook this on low flames for 5 min.

8) Open the lid mix everything well, taste it once if need adjust salt. That's it our Schezwan chutney is ready, let it cool to room temperature. Later store it in dry and air tight container.