How to make the Best Sweet Spicy Sawsawan Recipe

If the Malaysians/Indonesians have the Sambal Oelek, the Thai have the Nam Pra Prik, the Vietnamese have the Nước chấm then the Filipinos have the sawsawan. Sawsawan is a generic term in the Philippines for dips where grilled and/or fried meats like fish, chicken, pork and beef are dunked into to enhance and/or intensify its flavour. There are many types of sawsawan in the Philippines and the most popular ones are the toyomansi (soy sauce, calamansi and chillies), patis (fish sauce with chillies), Mang Tomas, (sweet liver gravy), Banana ketchup and our post today which is made with suka (sweet spicy Sawsawan is a part of life in the Philippines where you can see it present in most dining tables, even non-grilled or fried dishes…