Surely, almost every one of us, visiting restaurants of Chinese cuisine, paid attention that almost all dishes are served with the same sauce. What is the secret? The fact is that due to its taste, the Chinese sweet and sour sauce is universal. It is perfectly combined with meat, fish, and vegetables, and makes food digestible for the body.
Chinese food - sweet and sour sauce
Do not necessarily go to distant China to learn how to cook Chinese sauce. Today, its popularity has gone far beyond the country, and you can easily make it yourself. Ingredients included in the recipe are simple enough, they are easy to buy in our stores and supermarkets. The spicy and unique taste of Chinese sauce makes it indispensable when serving a variety of meat or vegetable dishes.
By the way, in the classic recipe of Chinese sauce you can add finely chopped pickled cucumbers, replace the usual vinegar with wine or, instead of fruit juice, take currant berries. The most important thing is to keep the proportions so that the sauce will turn out with its remarkable sourness, but it does not lose its sweetness.
Recipe for Chinese sweet and sour sauce
To prepare a Chinese sweet and sour sauce, brown sugar is usually taken. If it is not at hand, then it is perfectly replaced with ordinary sugar-sand or even honey. In the rest, it's very easy to prepare the sauce - all the products are mixed, thermally processed and filled with starch.
Ingredients:
- onion - 1 piece;
- fruit juice - 125 ml;
- soy sauce - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- vinegar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- oil (vegetable) - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- starch - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- ginger root - 1 piece;
- ketchup - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- water - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry in turns finely chopped onion, garlic and ginger root. Then add soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, fruit juice and ketchup. As a fruit juice for a Chinese sweet sauce, you can take an apple or orange - preferably to feel a sourish. Now thoroughly mix all the ingredients, give a boil for a couple of minutes, and pour a thin stream of starch, previously mixed with water. Stir, cook until thickened and turn off. Chinese sweet and sour sauce is ready.