Chinese Restaurant-Style Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe
There are 100’s more Sweet and Sour Sauce recipes out there. Most are more complicated, some are more authentic to real Chinese cooking and some are, frankly, just plain better. But this very simple recipe is the one you are most familiar with and enjoy most often.
Make our Chinese Restaurant-Style Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe at home. This is the recipe for the sweet and sour sauce made in many Mom and Pop Chinese Restaurants and the one you get when your order Chinese Take-Out.
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Chinese Restaurant-Style Sweet and Sour Sauce
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Chinese Restaurant-Style Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Water
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 3/4 cup Vinegar
- 1 tablespoon Corn Starch
- 1 tablespoon Cold Water
Instructions
- Mix well.
- Boil.
- Mix together corn starch and water and add to the boiling mixture to thicken it to the consistency you desire.
- Add red or orange food coloring if you like.
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Photo of Sweet and Sour Sauce is by jeffreyw and is used by permission under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) License. Thank you, Jeffrey. Great Picture. Photos may be “representative” of the recipe and not the actual finished dish. All photo licenses listed were correct at the time of the posting of the page. Recipe is traditional. Additional Information Courtesy of Wikipedia and is used by permission.
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July 6, 2024 @ 9:33 pm
You mention cornstarch, how much should you use
July 9, 2024 @ 5:18 am
Trish
Thanks for pointing that out. We have fixed the recipe.
Alton