Schezwan Sauce

Schezwan, Sezwan, Schichuan, and various other spellings are also used but represent the same sauce.
Schezwan Sauce is used mainly in making fried rice, chilly recipes or as a dip to nuggets or pakoras.
There are various methods of making Schezwan Sauce some easy and some hard. Here is my way of preparing Schezwan Sauce.

Ingredients :-

• Dried schichuan Chillies 2 nos.
• Dried Paprika 1 nos.
• Smoked Paprika powder
• Ginger approx. 2 inch Finely chopped
• Garlic approx 6-8 cloves Finely chopped
• Cabbage a handful finely chopped
• Oil
• Salt as per taste
• Black pepper Powder
• Celery leaves Roughly Chopped
• Corn Flour

Steps :-

1. Soak dried Red Chillies and Dried Paprika in luke warm water for about 1 hour. And grind it into a fine paste
2. Heat Oil in a saucepan about 2-3 tbsp.
3. Add Chopped Ginger And Garlic and fry / Saute it for a minute.
4. When the ginger & Garlic in pan starts to turn brown Add chopped Cabbage and mix.
5. Add the red chillies paste, salt black pepper powder, Smoked paprika powder and mix for few minutes.
6. Add water and leave it to boil.
7. Make a corn flour slurry by mixing 2 tsp of corn flour with 4-5 tsp of water.
8. Slowly add the slurry to the sauce and stir simultaneously.
9. Now add the chopped Celery leaves to the sauce, let it cook for few seconds and remove from flame.

• Celery leaves acts as a preservative for the sauce.
• You can add celery Leaves before with cabbage or with chilly paste to give a hint of celery taste.