Sweet And Sour Sauce

[cathyy]

I have been eating a lovely dish that is sauteed cucumbers, onions, and tomatoes with a bit of meat in a red sweet and sour sauce. I know how to make sweet and sour in the US, you use pineapple juice and vinegar. That doesn't seem to be precisely how this is made, though. Anybody know how? I want to make it at home. It's not spicy at all, a real change-up from the average Thai entree.

[thaigerd]

Slice/portion your meat or seafood, add a bit of salt&pepper, than wallow it in corn flour until the whole surface is covered.

Prepare a wok/pot with a lot of oil, heat it up and fry the meat until crispy and brown.

Take it out and keep it on kitchen paper for a while to soak the excess frying oil.

Your veggies are prepared already and sliced:

Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, fresh pineapple fry now in a very hot wok, add some sugar, little oystersauce, fish sauce.

Now you add some tomato ketchup, stir all the time. Finish with some pineapple juice and when you like a touch of vinegar.

Your prefried meat is now on a plate already and you cover it with your sweet and sour sauce.

On top sprinkle some fresh coriander and chopped spring onions, voila.

Gerd

[toptuan]

Slice/portion your meat or seafood, add a bit of salt&pepper, than wallow it in corn flour until the whole surface is covered.

Prepare a wok/pot with a lot of oil, heat it up and fry the meat until crispy and brown.

Take it out and keep it on kitchen paper for a while to soak the excess frying oil.

Your veggies are prepared already and sliced:

Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, fresh pineapple fry now in a very hot wok, add some sugar, little oystersauce, fish sauce.

Now you add some tomato ketchup, stir all the time. Finish with some pineapple juice and when you like a touch of vinegar.

Your prefried meat is now on a plate already and you cover it with your sweet and sour sauce.

On top sprinkle some fresh coriander and chopped spring onions, voila.

Gerd

[blue eyes]

The cheap way and I do not like sweet and sour sauce but to each their own.

1 cup ketchup

1 cup vinager

1 cup sugar

6 tablespoons corn starch

mix all and heat

EASY but my oppinion

[suegha]

Slice/portion your meat or seafood, add a bit of salt&pepper, than wallow it in corn flour until the whole surface is covered.

Prepare a wok/pot with a lot of oil, heat it up and fry the meat until crispy and brown.

Take it out and keep it on kitchen paper for a while to soak the excess frying oil.

Your veggies are prepared already and sliced:

Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, fresh pineapple fry now in a very hot wok, add some sugar, little oystersauce, fish sauce.

Now you add some tomato ketchup, stir all the time. Finish with some pineapple juice and when you like a touch of vinegar.

Your prefried meat is now on a plate already and you cover it with your sweet and sour sauce.

On top sprinkle some fresh coriander and chopped spring onions, voila.

Gerd

This sounds like it would benefit from a touch of tamarind extract. What do you think?

[kayo]

BTW, I believe, whereas the chinese and the indonesians and prob others refer to this delicious dish as sweet and sour (as did my ma when I was growing up, I BELIEVE at least in the part of central LOS that I lived in, it was the sweet and sour concept, but often would be (AND be refered to,) as Sweet and Spicy!..

Hmm. Hmm. Hmmm. HHHHHMMMMMMM!!!!! Delish!

[thaigerd]

Slice/portion your meat or seafood, add a bit of salt&pepper, than wallow it in corn flour until the whole surface is covered.

Prepare a wok/pot with a lot of oil, heat it up and fry the meat until crispy and brown.

Take it out and keep it on kitchen paper for a while to soak the excess frying oil.

Your veggies are prepared already and sliced:

Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, fresh pineapple fry now in a very hot wok, add some sugar, little oystersauce, fish sauce.

Now you add some tomato ketchup, stir all the time. Finish with some pineapple juice and when you like a touch of vinegar.

Your prefried meat is now on a plate already and you cover it with your sweet and sour sauce.

On top sprinkle some fresh coriander and chopped spring onions, voila.

Gerd

This sounds like it would benefit from a touch of tamarind extract. What do you think?

Good idea, sure it would

What I said in another food thread here:

" Just play around a bit with your recipe and add some ingredients according to your personal taste".

I see recipes as a basic guideline and use my own creativity to give them my own touch.

Gerd

[suegha]

BTW, I believe, whereas the chinese and the indonesians and prob others refer to this delicious dish as sweet and sour (as did my ma when I was growing up, I BELIEVE at least in the part of central LOS that I lived in, it was the sweet and sour concept, but often would be (AND be refered to,) as Sweet and Spicy!..

Hmm. Hmm. Hmmm. HHHHHMMMMMMM!!!!! Delish!

That's true that is, although in my experience it's spicy and sour!

Ps they certainly don't load it up with suger as the Chinese do! I have a recipe which use copious amounts of dried red chillies - wow, what a kick!

[cathyy]

Thanks, guys! The source of the red color was my major stumbling block. If it's just a dab of catsup I can do it easily. Definitely it will need the vinegar or tamarind.

[suegha]

Thanks, guys! The source of the red color was my major stumbling block. If it's just a dab of catsup I can do it easily. Definitely it will need the vinegar or tamarind.

If you are deffo into the red colour, try sun dried tomato paste, it's fab. Also beware that tamarind extract is usually quite red, so proceed with caution!

[realthaideal]

Thanks, guys! The source of the red color was my major stumbling block. If it's just a dab of catsup I can do it easily. Definitely it will need the vinegar or tamarind.

I try to make it just like our lady on the corner makes it, and she uses a mix of ketchup and Sauce Prik - the mild red chili sauce they often serve with Khai Jiaow, the THai fried omelette. That's in addition to the other previously mentioned ingredients you have to play with: suagr, vinegar, pinch of fish sauce.