Chinese sauce: the best cooking recipes

People who have tried to try Chinese cuisine, for sure noticed that special attention is paid to sauces. Almost every dish, regardless of whether it is dumplings or noodles, meat or fish, is served with a special, piquant sauce. Recipes of the most popular Chinese sauces are presented in this article.

Universal sweet and sour sauce: recipe chinese

This sauce combines a light sour taste and a pleasant sweet taste. It is traditionally served with meat and fish, chicken nuggets or French fries. Sweet and sour Chinese sauce has a pleasant caramel color, which gives it brown sugar.

Sequence preparation of sauce at home:

1. Onion, garlic (2 pieces and denticle respectively) and a piece of ginger (5 cm) grind with a knife and fry in vegetable oil (2 tablespoons). Once the onion is clear, remove the frying pan from the fire.
2. In a small saucepan with a thick bottom, combine white wine with dry, soy sauce and sugar (2 tablespoons each). Add apple cider vinegar (2 tablespoons), ketchup (3 tablespoons) and orange juice (130 ml). All ingredients mix well and transfer to them in the saucepan fried in a frying pan vegetables.
3. Put the stewpan on a small fire. Simultaneously, mix the starch (1 tablespoon) with cold water (2 tablespoons) and pour the prepared solution to the rest of the ingredients.
4. Boil the sauce until thick consistency. Hot hot sauce to grind through a fine sieve or grind in a blender and serve to the main course.

Recipe for the famous Chinese sauce "Hoysin"

The most popular sweet sauce of Chinese cuisine "Hoysin" is traditionally prepared from soybeans. However, when cooking at home, it can include canned red beans. The taste of the sauce is identical, and only a professional can distinguish it from the present.

Piquant sweet Chinese sauce is prepared very simply. In the bowl of the blender, ½ cup chili, pre-cut into pieces, 2 cloves of garlic, red canned beans (3 tablespoons), as much soy sauce, rice vinegar (2 tablespoons), sesame oil and honey (1 h. Spoon). But the main ingredient is a special Chinese spice based on 5 spices, which is also added to other foods in the amount of ½ tsp. All ingredients are ground in the blender bowl. Ready-made sauce is served to the chicken or used as a marinade for any meat.

How to cook Chinese hot sauce

There are many options for cooking hot sauce based on chili peppers. One of them is as follows:

1. On olive oil (3 tablespoons), shallots are ground and chili pepper (without seeds) cut into rings or semirings. After a couple of minutes, the sliced vegetables along with the oil are transferred to the blender bowl.
2. Next, the remaining ingredients are added: rice wine, rice vinegar, soy sauce (4 tablespoons), liquid honey, cornstarch (2 teaspoons), and 50 grams of tofu cheese.
3. All the ingredients are thoroughly crushed. After this, the finished Chinese sauce is transferred to the sauce bowl and served to the table. It fits well with the taste of meat or chicken.

Recipe of Chinese sauce from plums

It is difficult to imagine Chinese cuisine without the famous sweet and sour plum sauce. At the same time it is easy to prepare at home in your own kitchen.

To weld sweet and sour Chinese sauce from the sink, it is necessary to boil half a pitted plum (1 kg), grated ginger root (70 g), garlic (2 slices), sugar (100 g), cinnamon stick, rice vinegar (120 ml) and soy sauce (65 ml). When the plums are sufficiently boiled, you need to extract cinnamon and anise from the pan, and then beat the sauce with a submerged blender. Then it can be returned to the stove, boil a little more and spread over sterile jars. Stored sauce in the refrigerator for about 4 months.