sweet and sour sauce chinese

By foodiva

Ingredients

• 2 middle size garlic cloves, minced
• 1 teaspoon minced ginger
• 1 teaspoon green onion white
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 4 tablespoons ketchup
• 8 tablespoons water= 1/2 cup of water
• 1 teaspoon rice vinegar
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons cornstarch
• 3 tablespoons water

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from chinasichuanfood.com

Preparation

Step 1

Stir fry

Chinese sweet and sour sauce possibly is the most famous Chinese sauce. There are so many yummy dish made with this sauce including sweet and sour chicken, sweet and sour pork etc. I have received e-mails and facebook message asking about how to make Chinese sweet and sour sauce. Elaine has decided to introduce different Chinese combined stir-fry sauces so you can use them directly with your own recipe creations.

Chinese sweet and sour sauce is known as 糖醋汁 in Chinese and is a type of sauce used mainly in quick stir-fry recipes in China. Basically, the main ingredient should be deep-fried or pan-fried firstly before tossing with the sauce in wok . This cooking method is named as “溜” in Chinese which meaning stir-fry and cook very quickly.

Everyone may have a unique sweet and sour sauce. If you do not like sour taste that much, you can reduce the vinegar or lemon juice slightly or add a little bit more sugar.In different Chinese cuisines, Chinese sweet and sour sauce is widely been used. For example,

There are many variations of Chinese sweet and sour sauce. Some use tomato sauce while others just use vinegar and sugar directly. Following are two most commonly used recipe for tuning Chinese sweet and sour sauce.

You can follow the step to make a perfect Chinese sweet and sour sauce or

mixing all the ingredients together for a quicker version.

All-purpose Chinese sweet and sour sauce, for around 500g food or a small rice bowl of dipping sauce!
How to use it, add your fried chicken, pork, fish, shrimp, tofu and whatever you want before or after adding water starch!

Heat up vegetable oil in pan or wok; add garlic, green onions and ginger to stir-fry for around 2 minutes or until aroma with low fire.

Then pour the basic sauce to the wok, bring all the content to a boiling. And add water starch in. Keep on stirring in the process.

If rice vinegar is not available, you can use lemon juice to replace it.

This is a traditional Chinese sweet and sour sauce mainly used in traditional dishes for example sweet and sour ribs and sweet and sour fish etc. However, if the sauce is used for marinating before frying, water can be skipped. Example dish:

Combined spicy Chinese sweet and sour sauce

Please note that the amounts of the basic ingredients might be changed depending on the particular recipe for example if pineapple is add as side vegetables, then reduce the amount according and vinegar should be avoided.

Chinese Tomato and Egg Stir Fry