Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe
Sweet and Sour Sauce is a sauce made by combing a sweet component and a sour component with cornstarch as the thickening agent. Some of the common sweet components are brown sugar, granulated white sugar, and honey. Rice vinegar, white vinegar, apple-cider vinegar, and pineapple juice are some of the common ingredients used as sour component.
This sweet and sour recipe will give you a good sauce with the right balance of flavors.
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Sweet and Sour Sauce is a sauce made by combining a sweet component and a sour component with cornstarch as the thickening agent. Some of the common sweet components are brown sugar, granulated white sugar, and honey. Rice vinegar, white vinegar, apple-cider vinegar, and pineapple juice are some of the common ingredients used as sour component.This sweet and sour recipe will give you a good sauce with the right balance of flavors.
The thing that I like most about this Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe is its ease in preparation — not to mention the fact that it does not take much time to make one. It also saves me money; instead of buying commercialized Sweet and Sour Sauce from the store, I make one for myself and my family with less than half of the cost.
This Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe is best used for fried and breaded meat like pork, chicken, and fish.
Try this Sweet and sour Sauce Recipe and let me know what you think.
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Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 1/2 tablespoons tomato ketchup
- 1/3 cup rice vinegar or white vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon soy sauce
- 2 teaspoon cornstarch dissolved in 5 teaspoons of water
Instructions
- Combine the sugar, ketchup, vinegar, and soy sauce in a bowl.
- Mix the combined ingredients using a balloon whisk or fork.
- Heat a saucepan then pour-in the sugar-ketchup-vinegar-soy sauce mixture. Stir once in a while and bring to a boil.
- Pour-in the cornstarch diluted in water then continue stirring until the texture becomes thick.
- Turn of the heat and transfer the sweet and sour sauce to a sauce bowl then serve.
Tacy says
This is delicious!
Ron says
Can I use tomato sauce instead of tomato ketchup?
jonalyn says
hi! What is white vinegar? My husband really loves lumpia so i want to prepare it for him with sweet and sour sauce.. Thanks!
Declan says
lovely, lush and georgiours
roland says
Thanks for you invaluable contribution to every filipino food enthusiasts at home and abroad. Mabuhay ang Panlasang Pinoy at sa lahat ng bumubuo nito. God bless you all.
Carrie says
Pede po bang pang substitute ang tapioca starch sa cornstarch?
marian says
_thanks poh sah info ‘out how to make sweet and sour sauce for lumpiang shanghai..ngtry poh coh ng una..experiment lang poh..i used fLour instead of cornstarch and banana catsup instead of tmato..hahaha..imagine nio poh ang lasa..haha..kakasuka..! pero bcoz of ur recipe dat won’t happen again.. wg poh kaung mgsasawa sah pagpopost ng mga recipes..Godbless…=)
bevs says
thank u sir..ang dali lang pala..God bless u more!
miracle says
thanks for sharing your recipes. do you know where I can buy the ingredients for making ham?
ailyn says
hi, thanks sa panlasang pinoy, dami kong natututunan. good job
Grace says
npadami ata cornstarch ko kaya super lapot..i tried pouring in water but tumabang naman,,hhaayy sira ang dinner, we end up with fried breaded pork and ketsup 🙁
anne says
Kuya…..ito din po ba yung sweet and sour sauce para sa lumpiang shanghai??
Panlasang Pinoy says
Anne, you may use this sa Lumpiang Shanghai.
aures says
Hi,
I tried your siomai recipe and it was great. You taught us the secret that it tasted like the one prepared by my a close friend who do not want to share the recipe. thank you so much. I blogged in a diff recipe -- sorry.
I am waiting for the HUMBA -- and camaron rebodsado pls.
thanks
aures
Aura says
Hi,
Can you please show us how to maka “Tamales”.
Thanks,
aura
MindanaoBabe says
ay ganito lang pala:)