Menu Prices AUOporto-Style Original Chilli Sauce at Home
Oporto copycat · ⏱ 25 mins · Difficulty: Easy · Serves 1 jar (about 1 cup) · By Sophie Bernard
Fresh red chillies, birdseye chillies, capsicum, garlic, ginger and red wine vinegar, cooked down and loosened with oil. The real Original Chilli Sauce Jar is $10.00 (4,640 kJ is the whole jar). Sauce method adapted from Rossano’s Casa Oporto Bondi Burger chilli sauce and Simple Home Edit Portuguese-style chilli sauce (2026).
The Original
Original Chilli Sauce Jar
Price: $10.00 (pickup)
Energy: 4,640 kJ (1,109 cal)
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Ingredients
Home-kitchen amounts for 1 jar (about 1 cup) — standard home-cooking quantities for this dish, not the chain’s recipe (chains do not publish theirs). Difficulty: Easy.
- 4 large red chillies, roughly chopped (seeds in)
- 4 birdseye chillies, roughly chopped (seeds in)
- 1 red capsicum, roughly chopped
- 4 garlic cloves
- 3 cm piece of ginger, peeled
- ½ cup (125 ml) red wine vinegar
- Zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- ½ tsp fine salt
- ½ cup (125 ml) olive oil
Method
- Whizz the chillies, capsicum, garlic, ginger, vinegar, lemon zest and juice, paprika, sugar and salt in a food processor until a paste forms.
- Pour into a saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to a low simmer and cook gently 10 minutes until it reduces and thickens.
- Let it cool completely, then stir in the olive oil to loosen it up.
- Taste and adjust: more lemon for brightness, more sugar if it bites too hard. Pour into a clean jar.
- Store in the fridge up to 2 weeks. Tip: wear gloves for the birdseye chillies and do not touch your face — and let the sauce cool before adding the oil, or it splits and goes greasy instead of glossy.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How close is this to the real Original Chilli Sauce Jar?
This is a home-kitchen copycat, not the chain’s recipe — the chain does not publish its recipe. It is built to sit beside the original: the real Original Chilli Sauce Jar is $10.00 for pickup with 4,640 kJ (1,109 cal). Compare the two before you cook — the home version trades the chain’s equipment for a frypan and an oven.
How long does it take, and how hard is it?
About 25 minutes, rated Easy difficulty, serving 1 jar (about 1 cup).
What do I need to make it?
The ingredients are listed below — starting with 4 large red chillies, roughly chopped (seeds in), 4 birdseye chillies, roughly chopped (seeds in), 1 red capsicum, roughly chopped, and 8 more. Quantities are home-kitchen amounts, written to serve 1 jar (about 1 cup).
What does the original cost at Oporto?
The real Original Chilli Sauce Jar is $10.00 (pickup), 4,640 kJ. Prices vary by location and delivery is higher.
Where can I check the original dish?
On its own dish page — open the Original Chilli Sauce Jar at Oporto page for the price, kJ and calories.
Is this recipe the chain’s official recipe?
No — no Top 10 chain publishes its recipes. Every recipe on this site is a copycat written from the dish’s published description and the home-kitchen method below, and the comparison box shows the real dish’s price and kJ so you can judge it yourself.
Written & checked by Sophie Bernard
Sophie reads every menu directly from each chain’s official Australian ordering site and records the store and price basis on the page. No price is published without a source.