Sweet and Sour Sauce
This is a simple sweet-and-sour sauce that works well as an everyday meal, even with leftover meat. It is best served with rice, and perhaps also steamed vegetables. The sauce alone (no meat, cherries, or pineapple chunks) can be poured over rice or used as a dip for egg rolls.
Ingredients
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- ⅓ cup red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 can (20 oz / 567 g) pineapple chunks in unsweetened juice
- Maraschino cherries
- Celery, chopped
- Cooked meat (suggested: chicken or pork) or fish (optional)
- Cooked rice
Ingredients for 28 servings (825 g) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Mix the brown sugar and corn starch in a saucepan.
Stovetop - 2
Add the vinegar, soy sauce, and most of the pineapple juice
- 3
Heat to boiling while stirring constantly.
- 4
Reduce heat, then add pineapple chunks, cherries, celery, and cooked meat.
- 5
Cook until celery begins to soften.
- 6
Serve sauce with cooked rice.
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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