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Sweet and sour sauce

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  • 18-01-2018 9:12pm
    #1
    coffeyt
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    Hi, hoping someone has a nice sweet & sour sauce receipe.
    My 2 + 3 year olds both like a varied diet (not really meat and spud eaters) they love curries, stir fries, spaghetti bol etc and I make these from scratch so I know what goes in them.
    I recently tried them on homemade chicken balls and rice which they loved but just had uncle bens sauce as I have never been able to master a sauce.
    Can anyone recommend a recipe with a similar taste to the standard uncle bens sweet and sour that I could try as would love to be able to do it myself!


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    #2
    LirW
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    I made a huge batch sweet&sour pork stir fry today, following the recipe from Ching He Huang.
    It's 100ml water with 1 tsp light soy sauce, 2 tsp black rice vinegar, 1 tsp brown sugar and a tsp corn starch (serves 2). The dish is made with pineapple though so you'd get a lot of sweetness from them already and just balance it out with the sauce (that give an amazing gloss to it).


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    Dizzyblonde
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    Someone posted this a few years ago and I use it regularly. If I want it spicier I add garlic and chilli.

    1 pepper, sliced (optional, if kids won't eat it)
    1 onion, sliced
    Optional - pineapple chunks, bamboo shoots
    Sunflour oil for frying
    Cornflour (about a tablespoon)
    250mls chicken stock
    1 tablespoon tomato puree
    2 tablespoons malt vinegar
    1 tablespoon mango chutney
    2 tablespoons light brown sugar
    1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
    Gently fry the pepper and onion until just soft.
    Mix all the wet ingredients in a jug then add to the pan, along with the bamboo shoots and pineaple chunks if using.
    Simmer for about 10 minutes then blend the cornflour with a little water, and add enough to thicken the sauce.


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