Create your own Sweet Chili Sauce.

A bit break from the series of posts re: “extenders”.

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You all love the Sweet-Chili Sauce to dip in your fried stuff.  You yearn to savour that sugary-sweet-piquant concoction a lot.
Most popular & tastier brands are from Thailand while the lower price ones from China are not that so remembered. Quality, many claim, is far behind Thailand’s.Let’s create our own Sweet Chili Sauce. No ARTIFICIAL COLORING. All natural. Kindly NOTE I use grammage system rather than the volumetric teaspoons and cups measurements. So prepare your kitchen weighing scales.
(complete 1 liter formulation expandable to endless commercial quantity)
  SWEET CHILI SAUCE
Serves:    26-28
Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 10 min
Ready In: 25 min
Ingredients:
Water 450ml.
Cane or Palm Vinegar 80ml.
8 grams Salt
375 grams Cane Sugar
70 grams Bell Peppers (Combination of Red & Green)
2 grams Red Cayenne Pepper (or about 2-3 pieces)
15 grams Corn Starch
Step-by-step directions:
1. For multi-color presentation, head & stem cut-off, without removing seeds of red & green bell and red cayenne peppers, lay a portion or a piece of each (should they be smaller) into chopping board. Chop very finely. Include the seeds, set aside.
2. Adding little of our water, also without removing seeds, head & stem taken-off, cut into 4 pieces & blenderize remaining bell and red cayenne until semi smooth emulsion is reached.
3. Leaving about 50ml water for corn starch slurrying, pour remaining water into the blender. STIR manually with long teaspoon so emulsion will be scraped off and mix well with water.
4. Pour into cooking kettle. Add vinegar, salt & sugar. Stir consistently and bring to a boil.
5. While waiting, in a container, mix well 50ml water and corn starch until no lumps are visible.
6. On first boil, simmer down to lowest cooking temp. Add in corn starch slurry and the finely chopped peppers.
7. Stir until a bit viscous consistency is attained.
8. Done.
Notes:
Yield: 80-90% (800-900ml)
Servings: 26-28 on 30ml per serve basis at 80% yield (800ml)
If more Red bell pepper is used, sauce’s outcome color is light red. More green means reddish-green note.
Over time some discoloration will be visible & apparent. No worry. Since formulation did not use artificial colorants, it’s bound to happen. What is lost is the “natural color” of bell & red cayenne peppers. Guaranteed, there is no effect on sensory qualities of finished sauce as: aroma, taste, mouthfeel etc.

I pray…vs. PDAF

Undergoing 2nd 1/3 life of mine I’ve been under leadership of many Philippine Presidents. From Elpidio Quirino (end-1953) to date. Vividly I could remember THERE ARE ONLY 2 amongst them where during their incumbency…WORST TRAGEDIES BECOME PART OF OUR DAILY LIVES. Both are perceived to be Pope-ly honest and sincere but mice & cats around them partake the “cake”. In view, may the fiery sentiments of citizenry vs. current public funds’ squanderings (PDAF) of dynasty-driven “trapos” (traditional politicians) never wane. Right on. For in UNITY…
STRENGTH.

No matter what, nothing can stop us…we will prevail.

Can’t help but to reminisce the past and post this.
Lots of friends ask me:
* what do participants get in joining the triathlon or duathlon?
* they seem foolish spending huge sums for the gear-ups plus training then get nothing?
* It’s bull….  I’ll just sit back home, relax and do little stretching till I perspire-that is enough.
No replies they get from me, except hehehe.
I just requested them to check this post of mine.
Shots from Aviva 70.3 Tri-Meet at Singapore (March 2012)

(Travel-Sports) On prep for following day’s Safeguard Active 5i50 Triathlon at this Casita by the Beach. WOW! Check it out.

October 05, 2013, on concrete stilts, this spectacular Casita at Kamana Sanctuary Resort & Spa (Subic Naval Station, Philippines) relaxes my being while busy preparing gears needed to snap great shots of followings day’s
Safeguard Active 5i50 Triathlon.
My son (Janssen) & his wife (Ging), daughter (Cha) & a grand daughter (Andee)
are participating in this 1.5km swim-40km bike-10km run.
A former U.S. Naval Station in Asia, Subic’s sea is perfect for the 1.5km open water swim.
The undulatingly hilly road, where most of the sides are forests,
promises a hard climb but a rewarding downhill fast stretch in bike leg.
Just be aware of forest monkeys crossing the streets every now and then.
And this same up-down road will again be engaged by tri-athletes for the run.
Posting pics of the event next.