Sweet and Sour sauce recipe

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I absolutely love sweet and sour and 9/10 times I'll get it on a chinese takeaway.

I've experimented a bit with making my own, but have never managed to get a recipe for a sweet and sour sauce that imitates that of one you can get from a takeaway.
I'm talking about the small tubs you can get of it to dip spring rolls as shown in picture below

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I use white wine vinegar, soy sauce, brown sugar and corn flower but I can never quite get the right taste.

Anything I'm missing from the ingredients?
 
Never tried boiling it, only warming really.
No ketchup though?
I thought it would need some sort of other flavour
 
Will give it a try tonight or tomorrow and let you know how it goes with boiling it

Thanks for the response :)
 
You've given me quite a few ideas to experiment with.
Think I'll give the sherry a miss, but I'll make 2 batches. One with cooking at quite a high heat and the other gently simmering for longer.

Any particular order I should be cooking the ingredients?
Should I sort of caramelise the sugar a little bit first or is it okay just to mix it all together?
 
Great tip for using corn flour. Get a small bottle with tight screw lid (baby food is perfect) add the cornflour and a some water, seal and shake.

Never really had a problem with lumpy cornflour. Just add as little water as possible to it to make it in to a liquid.


Bought some squid yesterday so I'll be trying the sweet and sour tonight. May post picture results if I'm feeling not too lazy
 
Here is my little recipe for it.

  • 30g or 2 tablespoons of Corn flour
  • 120g/4oz light brown sugar
  • pinch salt and pepper
  • 120ml/4floz cider vinegar
  • 1 clove garlic finely chopped
  • 1 tsp of fresh ginger finely chopped
  • 6 tablespoons of tomato ketchup
  • 90ml/6 tablespoons pineapple juice
  • Cut up a couple of pineapple rings into bite sized chunks


Finally made this a couple of nights ago. Ended up making about 3x the quantity and absolutely loved it.
Thanks so much for this recipe, will be keeping this for sure.

Ended up having it with pork, onion, red peppers and of course the pineapple. Too lazy to post pictures tonight I'm afraid.

Oh, and I also added soy sauce to the recipe.
Once again thank you for such an amazing recipe :)
 
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