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Chinese Sweet and Sour Sauce
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!
Course
sauce
Cuisine
Chinese
Keyword
sweet and sour
Prep Time
5
minutes
minutes
Cook Time
10
minutes
minutes
Total Time
15
minutes
minutes
Author
Elaine
Ingredients
2
middle size garlic cloves
, minced
1
tsp.
minced ginger
1
tsp.
green onion white
2
tbsp.
vegetable oil
Basic sweet and sour sauce
4
tbsp.
ketchup
8
tbsp.
water
, 1/2 cup of water
1/2
tbsp.
rice vinegar
1
tbsp.
sugar
1
tbsp.
light soy sauce
a small pinch of salt if needed
Water starch
1
tbsp
cornstarch
3
tbsp
water
Instructions
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.
Notes
If rice vinegar is not available, you can use lemon juice to replace it.