Name: Sweet-and-Sour Sauce
Yield: Makes ½ cup (125 ml)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon sugar; ½ tablespoon oyster sauce; 1 teaspoon Chinese rice vinegar; 1 tablespoon plum sauce; ½ tablespoon Worcestershire sauce; ¼ teaspoon sesame oil; 4 tablespoons water; 1 teaspoon cornstarch; 2 tablespoons ketchup

Preparation info

Makes
½ cup

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Easy Chinese Recipes

By Bee Yinn Low

Published 2011

About

I had to experiment several times to get this Sweet-and-Sour Sauce perfect. It tastes nothing like the starch-laden and sickly sweet version you get in most Chinese restaurants in the United States.

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