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Sweet and Sour Sauce
This is a simple sweet-and-sour sauce that works well as an everyday meal, even with leftover meat. It is best served with rice, and perhaps also steamed vegetables. The sauce alone (no meat, cherries, or pineapple chunks) can be poured over rice or used as a dip for egg rolls.
Ingredients
- brown sugar1/2 cup
- cornstarch1 tbsp
- red wine vinegar1/3 cup
- soy sauce1 tbsp
- pineapple chunks, in unsweetened juice1 can
- maraschino cherries
- celery, chopped
- meat or fish, cooked; suggested chicken or pork; or fish; optional
- rice, cooked
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 6 steps
Mix the brown sugar and corn starch in a saucepan.
Add the vinegar, soy sauce, and most of the pineapple juice
Heat to boiling while stirring constantly.
Reduce heat, then add pineapple chunks, cherries, celery, and cooked meat.
Cook until celery begins to soften.
Serve sauce with cooked rice.
Region evidence: no stated origin (basic dish)
