Sweet Chili Sauce Uses: 8 Ways to Use the Grand Champion

Our Sweet Garlic & Chili Sauce won Grand Champion at the Royal Winter Fair in 2023, and first place the year before that. One customer described it as heaven in your mouth. Most people use it for exactly one thing, which is a waste of a very good bottle. Here are eight sweet chili sauce uses worth knowing.

It is candied, tangy, thick and syrupy, with a subtle garlic note and only a mild touch of chili. Four ingredients: fresh garlic, chili flakes, vinegar and sucrose.

Eight Sweet Chili Sauce Uses to Try

1. As a Dip, Which Is How It Started

This sauce was originally created as a dip for cocktail items at catering functions. That is its native habitat. Spring rolls, dumplings, tempura, anything fried.

2. On Crispy Fried Tofu

This is our own favourite. The syrupy texture clings to fried tofu in a way thinner sauces cannot, and the sweetness plays against the crunch.

3. As a Sandwich Spread

Genuinely the most underrated of all the sweet chili sauce uses. A thin layer on the bread instead of mayo changes a turkey or roast chicken sandwich completely.

4. As a Grilling Baste

Brush it on chicken thighs or pork in the last few minutes. Like all our sweet sauces it goes on at the end, not the start, or the sugar scorches.

5. Stirred Into Mayo or Sour Cream

One spoonful into half a cup of mayo gives you a dipping sauce for fries or a burger spread, in the time it takes to find a bowl.

6. Poured Over Cream Cheese

The old party trick, and it still works. Pour it over a block of cream cheese, serve with crackers. Two ingredients, thirty seconds, and it disappears first.

7. As a Cocktail Sauce

Shrimp, crab cakes, anything you would normally hit with a red cocktail sauce.

8. On a Cheese Board

Next to a sharp cheddar or a firm goat cheese. The candied, garlicky sweetness does what a fruit paste does, but with more going on.

What Makes This Sweet Chili Sauce Different?

Four ingredients and no artificial preservatives. It is handcrafted in small batches in our Toronto kitchen, and it has the awards to back it up: Grand Champion at the Royal Winter Fair in 2023, first place in 2022.

Want It With More Heat?

Pair it with the Jalapeno & Habanero Pepper Sauce, made from Chef Cindy’s grandma Myrl’s hundred-year-old Trinidadian recipe. Or get both plus our Smoked Pepper Sauce in the Heat Seeker’s Set for $26.

Shop the Sweet Garlic & Chili Sauce and find your own ninth use for it.