Out of chili sauce
Chili sauce from tomato sauce, brown sugar, vinegar and spices
The chili sauce in these charts is the tomato-based kind. Both build it from tomato sauce, brown sugar, vinegar and sweet spices, and they print the same amounts.
The cloves and allspice are only a dash each in both charts, so they have no measured amount on the card.
Replaces 1 cup chili sauce
Tomato sauce + brown sugar + vinegar + ground cinnamon
| Amount | Ingredient | ≈ grams |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | tomato sauce | 245 g |
| ¼ cup | brown sugar (packing not stated) | |
| 2 tbsp | vinegar | |
| ¼ tsp | ground cinnamon | 0.7 g |
| a dash | ground cloves | |
| a dash | allspice |
- Colorado State University Extension, Ingredient Substitutions (web page) — checked 2026-09-27
- Mississippi State University Extension, Ingredient Substitutions and Equivalents (Publication 1690, 2024), p. 3 — checked 2026-09-27
✓ 2 sources match Colorado State Extension, Mississippi State Extension list the same amounts.
Grams are volume-to-weight estimates from USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy): Tomato products, canned, sauce — 1 cup = 245 g; Spices, cinnamon, ground — 1 tsp = 2.6 g. Blank means the chart does not say which kind to use, or the unit is not a volume.
Before you swap
- Mississippi State also lists a quicker version made from ketchup with the same spices. Colorado State does not print that one, so it is not on this page.
How these ratios are checked: our method. Spotted a mismatch with a chart? Tell us and we will recheck the original.