Sweet and sour sauce

Which hostess does not wonder: what would it be to serve to the usual dish, so that it plays with new, unusual and stunning notes? Of course the sauce! But even with this case, it is quite difficult to decide: I want it not to be too sharp if it is a sour sauce, and do not serve it clumsily sweet to meat. . . But if you combine it all into one, you get a completely new sweet and sour sauce with different flavors.

Perky sour, soft sweetness and pleasant mustard - this is the Chinese sweet and sour sauce. It is most popular when preparing pork dishes, but is often used in combination with seafood, fried vegetables, as well as breaded foods. Fries, nuggets made of fish and meat are simply irresistible when paired with sweet and sour sauce. It perfectly emphasizes the excellent taste of traditional snacks for Thai cuisine - shaomai, dumplings and spring rolls. In addition, the sweet and sour sauce and all kinds of sandwiches complement well.

To enjoy a real Chinese sweet and sour sauce, you don't have to go to your homeland or go to a Chinese restaurant. Many hostesses never use the shop option, but cook sweet and sour sauce on their own at home. The success of this product lies not only in its amazing taste, but also in its versatility, since you can refill with sour-sweet sauce almost everything. It gives a special piquancy to vegetables, fish, and meat.

Composition of sweet and sour sauce

The composition of the sweet and sour sauce, which can be called the most classic and traditional for the countries of the East and Asia, is considered unusually simple, although it provides for the set of a large number of components. First of all, it is, of course, tomato paste based on ripe juicy tomatoes. Then comes the flesh of a fragrant pineapple and a small amount of spicy ginger. Apple cider vinegar, together with brown sugar, add a special sourness and a pleasant aroma to the sour sweet sauce.

In addition, it is impossible to imagine that the composition of the sweet and sour sauce is absent soy sauce along with some aromatic Asian spices. Onions, garlic, dry white wine and orange juice are also integral components of this savoury sauce.

The calorie content of the sweet and sour sauce compared to the nutritional value of other similar vegetable oil based dressings is much lower at about 167 kcal per 100 grams of finished product. However, this applies to the store version, so the nutritional value of sweet and sour sauce cooked at home directly depends on the range of ingredients used.