Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipes

Ingredients (33)

• Recipe 1: :
• Cantonese Style / Takeaway / Most Chinese Restaurants:
• Ingredients:
• 200ml Water
• 100ml Ketchup
• 100ml Rice vinegar
• 100g Rock sugar (You can also use caster sugar or demerara sugar. But I feel like the rock sugar makes the sauce taste better)
• ½ tablespoon potato starch mix with 1 tablespoon water
• Some salt for seasoning 
• Recipe 2:
• Shanghai Style Sweet and Sour Sauce:
• Ingredients:
• 50g caster sugar
• 2 tablespoons water
• 40ml light soy sauce
• 30ml black vinegar 
• Recipe 3:
• If you use canned pineapple in your sweet and sour dish then you can replace part of the water from the Method 1 and make your sweet and sour sauce with the pineapple juice. Reduce down the amount of sugar you use a little bit though as canned pineapple juice can be quite sweet. Some canned pineapples are less sweet but judge it for yourself.
• Ingredients:
• 200ml juice from the canned pineapple. If the amount of the juice is not enough then top up with water.
• 100ml Ketchup
• 100ml Rice vinegar
• 70g Rock sugar (You can also use caster sugar or demerara sugar. But I feel like the rock sugar make the sauce taste better)
• ½ tablespoon potato starch mix with 1 tablespoon water (Potato starch is usually available in Chinese supermarkets. It’s also available on Amazon. Otherwise you can replace it with cornflour/cornstarch.)
• Some salt for seasoning 
• Recipe 4:
• This recipe is from the former Chinese food expert Rhonda Parkinson
• Ingredients:
• 1/3 cup rice vinegar (Note: I would insist to use rice vinegar as white wine vinegar flavour is too sharp and strong.)
• 4 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon ketchup
• 1 teaspoon light soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch mixed with 4 teaspoons water