To celebrate Chinese new year we’re making chef and restaurateur, Luke Nguygen’s XO Chilli Sauce! What is XO sauce you might ask? This tasty seafood sauce is more than just a ‘chilli sauce’ with it’s list of luxury ingredients including dried scallops, squid and shrimp it sure packs a punch! XO sauce works great with seafood, meat even tofu and served atop of rice or noodles. If you haven’t tried this classic Chinese condiment you’ve been missing out! Luckily, we’ve got you covered with Luke’s delicious recipe below!

 

XO CHILLI SAUCE

100 g peeled garlic

100 g fried shallots

500 ml vegetable oil

25 g fresh birds eye chilli

50 ml chilli oil

1 tablespoon dried chilli flakes

250 ml oyster sauce

50 g dried squid

50 g dried anchovy

50 g dried shrimp

50 g dried scallops (soaked in water overnight & drained)

40 g sugar

 

Method:

Grill the dried squid until crisp. Scrape off any charred part with a sharp knife.

In a food processor, blitz the squid, anchovy, scallops, shrimp, chilli and garlic.

Now heat the oil in large pot and brown the garlic, add the dried minced seafood’s, oyster sauce and sugar.

Cook and on heat low for an hour stirring every 10 minutes.

To finish add birds eye chilli, chilli oil, chilli flakes, fried shallots and stir again

Store your X.O Chilli Sauce in sterilised jars and it will keep in the fridge for up to six months.