Sweet and Sour Sauce

Homemade sweet and sour sauce is so much better than anything you can buy at the shops and takes 2 minutes to make. You can adjust how sweet or sour it is or add spice if you want some heat.

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Sweet and Sour sauce is a family crowd pleaser, it’s bonkers easy to make and ready in two minutes. You can use this for sweet and sour pork or chicken and it’s a fantastic dipping sauce for meatballs. You can keep the sauce in the fridge for a week, you might just need to add some extra vinegar when you go to cook it as it can lose some tang over time. If you like heat you can add some chilli powder to the sauce.

INGREDIENTS
Makes 200ml of Sauce
100ml cider vinegar
120g brown sugar
75ml water
75g ketchup
1 tbsp cornflour
1 tbsp soy sauce

Chuck everything into a pan over a medium high heat and whisk until the sauce thickens (about 2 minutes). It’s that easy. Store any leftover sauce in a sterilized jar in the fridge for a week.

2 responses to “Sweet and Sour Sauce”

Sweet and Sour Pork – One Tough Cooker

Apr 19, 2021 at 8:29 am

[…] a children’s dish in Chinese cuisine because it’s sweet, sticky and easy to eat. Homemade Sweet and Sour Sauce can be kept in the fridge for just over a week so I often make a batch of meatballs with S&S […]

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Oven Baked Meatballs – One Tough Cooker

Jul 19, 2021 at 7:29 am

[…] Meatballs are a great way to feed lots of people and they’re very kid friendly. Cooking them in a pan can be messy as the fat spits when it gets hot. Baking them in the oven gives them a crispy brown outside and soft insides. Cooking meatballs in the oven allows the excess fat to leach out so that you end up with a lower fat dish. Do not to tip fat down the sink, always let it cool then put in the bin. I cook meatballs this way to use in pasta dishes, for meatball sandwiches, for soups of for meatballs dipped in sweet and sour sauce. […]

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