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.

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

Steps

1. Mix the brown sugar and corn starch in a saucepan.
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.

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Adapted from “Sweet and Sour Sauce” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.