Make Sweet and Sour Sauce
Are you having trouble finding the perfect sweet and sour sauce at your local grocery store? Sweet and sour sauce is actually quite easy to make, involving many ingredients that people often have in the pantry. For some surefire recipes of how to make sweet and sour sauce to pour over rice, dumplings, meat, or veggies, read on it.
Contents
Steps
Method One: Traditional Sweet and Sour Sauce
- Gather all your ingredients nearby. This recipe makes 2 cups of sauce and takes 12 minutes to prepare. Here's what you'll need to make traditional sweet and sour sauce:
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1/3 cup white vinegar
- 2/3 cup water
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon ketchup
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- Combine all your ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat.
- Bring the sauce in the saucepan to a boil and stir until thickened. Remove from heat and serve.
Method Two: Alternative Sweet and Sour Sauce
- Gather all your ingredients nearby. This recipe makes 1.5 cups of sauce and takes 12 minutes to make. Here's what you'll need to make alternate sweet and sour sauce:
- 1 cup pineapple juice
- 1/3 cup water
- 3 tablespoons vinegar
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- Combine all your ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat.
- Stirring constantly, bring the sauce to a boil, checking for thickness. Remove from heat once thick and serve.
- Finished.
Tips
- For a less red-colored sauce, lessen the amount of ketchup from 1 Tbsp to 1/2 Tbsp. or 2 tsp.
Warnings
- Despite what your friends may tell you, Duck sauce isn't the same as Sweet and Sour sauce. Not by taste, and by color and texture.
