Sweet and Sour Sauce

• 分量: 8 servings
• 調理時間: 5 minutes
• 総時間: 25 minutes

材料

1 tablespoon neutral oil (such as vegetable, canola, peanut, or avocado oil)

1 slice fresh ginger (1/8” thick)

1 star anise

¼ cup tomato paste

⅔ cup granulated sugar

⅔ cup water

¾ cup white vinegar (5% acidity)

1 tablespoon soy sauce

¼ cup juice/syrup (optional - pineapple juice is most common, though you can also try orange, apple, or lemon)

2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoons water

手順

Add the oil, the ginger slice, and star anise to a small stainless steel or non-reactive saucepan (definitely not your carbon steel wok!) over medium-low heat, and cook until the ginger starts to caramelize, about 1 minute.

Next, add the tomato paste, stirring constantly until the tomato paste starts to caramelize—2 minutes. Take care not to burn the aromatics and tomato paste. This step is essential to giving the sauce a deeper, more complex flavor.

Next, stir in the sugar, water, white vinegar, and soy sauce. Bring everything to a simmer and cook until the sugar is completely dissolved. Add your optional fruit juice or syrup, if using.

Reduce the heat to low. Let the sauce simmer and reduce until it just starts to coat a spoon, about 10 minutes. The sauce needs this time for the flavors to meld. After the sauce has reduced, remove the star anise and ginger.

At this point, your sauce is ready to use if you’re cooking another dish (you can reheat it and thicken it just before you toss in any other ingredients), or ready for the fridge or freezer if you’re storing it for later (let the sauce cool before chilling). If using it for dipping, make your cornstarch slurry by combining the cornstarch and water. The sauce will already be somewhat thick because of the sugar, so add the slurry very gradually, simmering the sauce until it reaches your ideal consistency. You may not need all of the slurry.

栄養

• カロリー: 100 kcal
• 脂肪総量: 2 g
• 飽和脂肪: 0.1 g
• 不飽和脂肪: 2 g
• トランス脂肪: 0.01 g
• ナトリウム: 139 mg
• 炭水化物総量: 20 g
• 食物繊維: 0.4 g
• 糖質総量: 18 g
• タンパク質: 1 g