Sweet And Sour Sauce Recipe - Mashed (2024)

FAQs

What is sweet and sour sauce made of? ›

While sweet and sour can be found in diverse forms in China, the American version builds upon the simple mixture of sugar, vinegar, and spices with the addition of fruit juice—most commonly pineapple—and ketchup, giving the sauce both its red hue and uniquely Western flavor.

So you can imagine how we responded to discovering that perhaps one of McDonald's most sought-after sauces: sweet and sour, was made with... (prepare yourselves) apricots. No – really, it's not pineapple, it's not mango. It's apricot.

It's not quite the same as sweet and sour sauce, but the flavors are pretty similar. I would say that duck sauce is more for dipping and sweet and sour sauce is used more for coating and glazing, as in sweet and sour pork or sweet and sour chicken. The ingredients differ slightly too.

Here is the recipe that I use.... 1/4 C of brown sugar 1/2 C of white sugar 1/3 cup white vinegar 1/4 C of pineapple juice and pineapple chunks 1/4 C of ketchup 1/4 cup soy sauce If it is too thin then add a little flour to help give it some body. Boil on the stove and let cool, it will thicken as it cools.

Make a flour slurry to thicken creamy sauces.

Combine equal parts of flour and cold water in a cup. Mix it until it's smooth and stir it into the sauce. Bring the sauce to a simmer for 5 minutes. A general rule is use 2 tsp (3 grams) of flour to thicken 1 L (34 fl oz) of liquid.

In a blender or salad dressing shaker, combine oil, sugar, vinegar, onion, salt, mustard, and celery seed. Blend or shake until emulsified.

INGREDIENTS: HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, DISTILLED WHITE VINEGAR, WATER, PINEAPPLE JUICE CONCENTRATE, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SALT, SOYBEAN OIL, POTASSIUM SORBATE & SODIUM BENZOATE AS PRESERVATIVES, DRIED GREEN BELL PEPPERS, DRIED RED BELL PEPPERS, SPICES, NATURAL EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA.

McDonald's is making yet another new addition to their 2024 menu, and this time it comes in the form of a delicious new dipping sauce: Savory Chili Sauce.

Despite its name, the sauce is not prepared using duck meat; rather it is named as such because it is a common accompaniment to Chinese-style duck dishes. Wonton strips served with duck sauce and hot mustard at an American Chinese restaurant.

Is plum sauce the same as sweet and sour? ›

Plum sauce is usually used as a sweet and sour dip, especially with fried dishes. Folks use plum sauce with spring rolls, noodles, and duck. The definition can get a little confusing because plum sauce is sometimes used interchangeably with duck sauce and sweet and sour sauce. Sweet and sour sauce is its own thing.

At its core, sweet and sour sauce is a mixture of sugar (sweet) and vinegar (sour). Depending on the origins of the sauce, that sugar can come from a wide range of sources: honey, plums and other fruits, syrups, and even melted candy.

Lemon or lime juice are the two most common substitutes for white vinegar. You can also use rice vinegar, apple cider vinegar or malt vinegar but the taste of your sauce might be a tad different.

If you have added too much vinegar to a recipe, you can try adding a bit of sugar or honey to help balance the acidity. You could also try diluting the vinegar by adding more of the other ingredients in the recipe.

Tip: Sugar can also soften acidic flavors, as in a sweet-and-sour sauce. To see how, make an overly sour vinaigrette, then whisk in sugar a pinch at a time until the vinaigrette tastes less harsh but not sweet.

So What is Sweet and Sour Mix? This is basically a lemon-lime simple syrup, combining sugar and water with lime and lemon juice.

Sweet and sour chicken, one of the most popular Chinese takeout dishes, is made of puffy, golden brown pieces of fried chicken nuggets with pineapple chunks, onion, bell pepper, carrot, and a side of iconic red, sweet and sour sauce.

The sweet and sour sauce you get from most chinese restaurants is dyed with food colouring to make it red. When I make sweet and sour sauce from scratch, there's a bit of a red colour, but that's because I use ketchup to make some of the “sour” part. It's also got tomatoes in it, which adds some red colour.

Chinese sweet and sour sauce. Probably the one you're thinking of. It's served with various different dim sum type fried dishes such as spring rolls, and fried wontons. It's more of an orangey red as red and yellow food colouring are used to creates this sauce.