Plum BBQ Sauce

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    ½

    cup
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Chinese-American Barbecue: Big-Flavor Asian BBQ from the Smoke Queen

By Winnie Yee

Published 2026

  • About

If you’ve ever been to a Cantonese barbecue restaurant and ordered the roast duck, it will almost always come with a plum sauce. This sauce is my barbecue spin on the traditional Chinese plum sauce that pairs with the Cantonese roast duck, pork, and poultry. It can also be used as a dipping sauce for egg rolls, dumplings, and wontons; a sauce for stir-fry noodles; a basting sauce for poultry and pork; and, of course, as a glaze on beautifully smoked meats. Because of its fruit-forward flavo

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