Home-Made Schezwan sauce (Sichuan Sauce), Vegetable Schezwan (Sichuan) Fried Rice, Chicken Schezwan (Sichuan) Fried Rice

This one is my favourite. But somehow I don't like the bottled Schezwan Sauce (why, i have no idea), but love the sauce that you get in good chinese restaurants. So I decided to make it at home as it is very easy to make.Read on for a simple recipe..........

Schezwan Sauce ( Sichuan Sauce):-
Dried red chillies, 10-12 (deseeded and soaked in water for 1-2 hrs)

Garlic 10-12 cloves finely chopped

Ginger, grated/finely chopped 1 inch piece

Oil

Red Chilli sauce (readymade) 2 tbsp.

Salt to taste

Sugar a pinch

Soy sauce 1 tsp.

Vinegar 2 tsp.

1. Remove red chillies and discard the water. Now grind them into a fine paste with fresh water. (watch out for consistency…..it should be a paste)

2. Heat enough oil (oil acts as a preservative in the sauce when stored for a longer time) and add garlic and ginger and sauté it well.

3. Next add the red chilli paste and continue to saute till the oil starts separating.

4. Next add the soy sauce (do not add too much just a tsp or two, otherwise the sauce will get a different colour) and red chilli sauce. Add salt and a pinch of sugar. ( adding sugar will not make sauce sweeter, but it will cut down the pungent flavour).

5. At this time add little water to get the sauce consistency. Add vinegar and give the sauce one last boil and switch off the gas. The home-made Schezwan sauce is ready.

Vegetable Schezwan Fried Rice:-

Cooked Rice 1 ½ cups

Carrot, finely chopped 1 medium

French beans, finely chopped 4-6

Spring onions with greens, finely chopped (Reserve some spring onion greens for garnish)

Green Capsicum 1 small finely chopped

Oil 1 tbsp.

Garlic, finely chopped 2-3cloves

Red chilli sauce (readymade) 1 tbsp.

White pepper powder 1/4 tsp.

Salt to taste

Vinegar 1 tbsp. 
and Home-made Schezwan Sauce

and for Chicken Fried rice - 2 breast pieces of boneless chicken cut into chunks




Heat oil  and add garlic, spring onions(white), carrots, frech beans, capsicum and stir-fry for one minute. Now reduce the gas flame and add the schezwan sauce, white pepper powder and salt and mix well. Add rice, red chilli sauce, spring onion greens, vinegar and mix it tossing continuously. Serve hot, garnished with the reserved spring onion greens.

 

For chicken Fried Rice:- 

Marinate the chicken in soy sauce for 30 mins. Heat oil and add garlic,saute for a minute. Now add chicken pieces ( not the soy sauce) and stir fry it. Let the chicken get cooked by stir frying it. Once chicken gets half cooked; add spring onions(white), carrots, french beans, capsicum and stir-fry again. The chicken and vegetables should be cooked together and the later is cooked to the  point that they don't lose the crunchiness.  Now reduce the gas flame and add the schezwan sauce, white pepper powder and salt and mix well. Add rice, red chilli sauce, spring onion greens, vinegar and mix it tossing continuously. Serve hot, garnished with the reserved spring onion greens.