All sauces are necessary in order to fully reveal the taste of the dish and give it unique shades. After all, you will agree that the same dish, but served with different sauces, "sounds" quite differently. What kind of sauce to cook? Sour - sharp, sweet - rather sugary, especially to the meat it does not serve. But you can combine these tastes and then you will have a completely new, playful and piquant sweet and sour sauce. It combines the original bitterness, and unusual sourness, and a soft sweet note. Let's look at some recipes with you.
Recipe for Chinese sweet and sour sauce
Ingredients:
- vinegar - 375 ml;
- sugar - 150 g;
- ketchup - 125 ml;
- soy sauce - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- spices - to taste.
Preparation
Now tell you how to cook sour sweet sauce. In a separate dish we pour sugar, pour in the vinegar and on a weak fire bring the mixture to a boil. Then to the resulting mixture, add soy sauce , ketchup and any spices to taste. Cook on low heat for a few minutes. And to make the sauce a little thicker - pour a little bit of flour into it.
Recipe for sweet and sour sauce
Ingredients:
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- bulb - 2 pieces;
- ginger root;
- vegetable oil;
- soy sauce - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- vinegar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- brown sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- fruit juice - 125 ml;
- water - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- starch - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
Preparation
Peeled garlic crushed with onion and ginger, and then fry in a skillet, smeared with oil, for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. In a separate saucepan combine soy sauce, vinegar, brown sugar, add ketchup and any fruit juice. After this, bring the mixture to a boil, pour a little starch and pour in water. Continue to stir until the finished sauce does not get the right consistency.
A simple recipe for sweet and sour sauce for meat
Ingredients:
- pickled cucumber - 1 piece;
- vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- potato starch - 2 tsp.
- vinegar - -0.5 teaspoons;
- cognac - 2 teaspoons;
- tomato paste - 1 teaspoon;
- sugar - 1,5 tsp.
- ginger - to taste.
Preparation
Sliced cucumbers cut into small cubes and poured onto a hot frying pan. Stew them for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. This time in a separate saucepan mix starch, granulated sugar, pour cognac, vinegar and put tomato paste. All lightly beat whisk until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. In the resulting mixture, add a little water, and continue to interfere. The resulting mass of poured cucumbers and continue to stew them for another 5 minutes. Finished sweet and sour sauce is served to the table in a separate bowl, in which you can dunk pieces of meat.
Recipe for sweet and sour sauce with pineapple for fish
Ingredients:
- canned pineapple - 600 g;
- tomato paste - 1,5 tbsp. spoons;
- sugar - 2 teaspoons;
- carrots - 2 pieces;
- boiled water -100 ml;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
Preparation
So, pour the pineapple juice into a small pan and set it on a weak fire. Then add some water to it, put the tomato paste and sugar, mix everything. As a result, we get a reddish liquid, sweet to taste and having a slight taste of pineapple. Then add the starch, stirring until the moment the sauce thickens. In the resulting mixture, pour in the vinegar and pour the diced vegetables and pieces of canned pineapple. The resulting sauce boil on low heat for 5 minutes and remove from the plate. Then we cool it well, cool it, pour it into a bowl and serve it to any fried fish.