Sweet and Sour Sauce

Submitted by Jubes

"This is a very easy sauce to make and much tastier and more economical than the purchased bottled variety. The vegetable stock can be substituted for pineapple juice or just plain old water. I use the juice when I am making a stir fry that I will throw some pineapple pieces into. You can vary the ingredients to your taste. To make this sauce gluten free, ensure that you use a GF stock, soy sauce and maize cornflour. White Wings cornflour and Fountain soy sauce are currently gluten free in Australia. The sauce will keep easily for a week in the refrigerator"

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup vegetable stock or 1/2 cup chicken stock
• 2 tablespoons white vinegar
• 4 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce (gluten-free if required)
• 3 tablespoons tomato sauce (US-ketchup)
• 1 tablespoon cornflour (US, cornstarch)
• 3 tablespoons water or 3 tablespoons stock

directions

1. Stir the cornflour into the water.
2. Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan over a medium heat.
3. Stir the mixture constantly and bring it to the boil. Continue to stir until the sauce thickens.
4. Use immediately or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
5. NOTE: For a thicker sauce add more cornflour eg to use as a dipping sauce.

Reviews

[Sydney Mike]

I'm another one who made this as a dipping sauce! Used the pineapple juice, too, & it made for a great for both some chicken tenders AND some baked potato wedges! A great keeper, for sure! [Made & reviewed in I Recommend]

 

[weekend cooker]

Used this as a dipping sauce for some chicken tenders..Made recipe as written with no adjustments, and would not adjust in the future. Everyone here enjoyed this very much. Made for I recommend tag..

 

[Lavender Lynn]

This made a great sauce for meatballs at my bunko night. Everyone loved it. Super easy and delicious. Made for Best of 2011.

 

[Peter J]

Simple great sauce that was wonderful with some battered prawns. I used it as a dipping sauce and was a little heavy-handed on extra cornflour, I used a full tablespoon whereas probably should have gone with about 3/4. Didn't affect the taste though and was very much enojoyed!

 

[Sarah_Jayne]

I rather liked this sauce. It was really easy to make and it wasn't nearly as sweet as I thought it would have been which is a good thing for me. I think it was the stock (vegetable in my case) that gave it a bit more of a richness than just a sickly sweet taste that you can sometimes get with sweet and sour. I used left over chicken from a store bought roasted chicken and some veggies together with the sauce to make a very quick and nice sweet and sour chicken dish. Made for ZWT4.