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Make a delicious sweet and sour sauce designed to enhance the flavor of your sushi or Chinese dishes, a recipe tailored to satisfy Western palates.
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How to Make Sweet and Sour Sauce?
Combine basic ingredients like water, sugar, apple cider or rice vinegar, soy sauce, and ketchup in a foolproof and easy-to-make preparation.
Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe for Sushi
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Calories: 200 kcal
Servings: 6 people
Ingredients
- 200 g sugar
- 200 ml water
- 100 ml apple cider vinegar
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
Instructions
- Add the apple cider vinegar, soy sauce, and ketchup. Continue stirring gently until you get a homogeneous mixture. Add the cornstarch and mix everything again. Bring to a boil and remove from heat.
- Add the apple cider vinegar, soy sauce, and ketchup. Continue stirring gently until you get a homogeneous mixture. Add the cornstarch and mix everything again. Bring to a boil and remove from heat.
- Pour the still-warm mixture into a clean glass container. Let it cool to room temperature and store in the refrigerator until ready to serve as an accompaniment to sushi or Chinese food.
Nutritional Porperties
Sweet and sour sauce contains B vitamins from the vinegar and soy sauce, as well as minerals like sodium and potassium and other antioxidants from the ketchup. Its consumption should be moderate due to its high sugar and sodium content.
What is Rice Vinegar?
Rice vinegar is a common ingredient in Asian cuisine, especially Japanese. It is used to make sushi and other recipes. It is made by fermenting rice with a strain of bacteria called acetobacter.
It’s Not Originally from Japan
Sweet and sour sauce for sushi is not a traditional Japanese preparation but rather an adaptation of Western cuisine. It was created in the United States in the 20th century and became popular worldwide.
