Easy Sweet and Sour Sauce for Chicken or Pork

There are 104 recipes for sweet and sour sauce on the Zaar, but none like this one. Lightly battered chicken or pork chunks, green pepper, onions, thinly sliced carrots, and pineapple chunks served with the sauce over rice make a complete meal.

• Ready In: 10 mins
• Serves: 2
• Yields: 1/2 cup

Ingredients

• 1⁄3 cup rice vinegar (do not substitute for best results)
• 4  tablespoons brown sugar
• 1  tablespoon ketchup
• 1  teaspoon soy sauce
• 2  teaspoons cornstarch
• 4  teaspoons water

Directions

1. Mix the vinegar, brown sugar, ketchup, and soy sauce together and bring to a boil in a small pot. Mix together the cornstarch and water, add to the other ingredients and stir to thicken.
2. For a thicker sauce, increase the cornstarch to 5 teaspoons.