Basic Chinese Sauce for Stir Fry

"After an emergency involving an out of date sauce & relatives coming round for dinner, I spent the next few minutes investigating the contents of my mum's cupboards & then every chinese cookbook we had to find a sauce that I could make in a couple of minutes. In the end, I found that the following ingredients were common to most recipes. If I hadn't been feeding my dad as well, I would have added something from the following - garlic, ginger, spring onion or chili pepper. As it was, I added the sugar instead to richen the sauce. I used the medium-dry sherry that my mum "cooks" with - although the recommended alternative for rice wine appears to be dry sherry."
 
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Ready In:
7mins
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
2
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ingredients

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directions

  • Mix cornflour and water together to form a smooth paste.
  • Add everything else to the paste and mix well- it will take a little while for the sugar to dissolve.
  • Add to meat and/or veg after stir-frying& heat until the sauce has thickened.
  • Serve immediately with rice or noodles.

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Reviews

  1. Not sure if I did right Rice wine Dark soy scause Honey Rice wine And ground ginger Its all I had so fingers crossed
     
  2. I didn't have any rice wine or sherry, or dark brown sugar, so I just used soy sauce, cornstarch, and some water, and added several cloves of garlic, powdered ginger and some red pepper flakes, and it came out great. Thanks!
     
  3. I really didn't have the amount of ingredients to do other Stir Fry sauces, so when I found this one I added a couple of drops of sesame oil and a clove of minced garlic. I did use water instead of stock but found that this was very tasty. Thanks for a posting this recipe.
     
  4. I can't believe I forgot to review this! I made this with chicken stock for a chicken based stir fry, and it was delicous! A basic, simple sauce that I have actually used a few times already....big stir fry people here! Thanks for a great stand by that I wll be making again!
     
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  1. I really didn't have the amount of ingredients to do other Stir Fry sauces, so when I found this one I added a couple of drops of sesame oil and a clove of minced garlic. I did use water instead of stock but found that this was very tasty. Thanks for a posting this recipe.
     

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