Spicy sweet and sour sauce turns any ordinary dish into a culinary masterpiece. Serve it with meat, fish, vegetables or pasta. We have collected for you recipes for a wide variety of sauces from oranges, cherries, cherry plums, even viburnum and apricot jam!
1. Sweet and sour sauce from McDonald’s
Perhaps this type of sweet and sour sauce is the most popular all over the world. At home, it is prepared from peach and apricot confiture.
You will need: 0.5 cups of apricot and peach confiture, 4 tsp. vinegar, 2.5 tbsp. l. corn syrup, 1.5 tsp. potato starch, 1 tsp. soy sauce, 0.5 tsp. sea salt, 0.5 tsp. prepared mustard, 2 tbsp. l. filtered water, 1 garlic clove.
Cooking: Combine peach and apricot jam in a saucepan, mix with corn syrup, soy sauce, vinegar, mustard, garlic, starch and salt. Beat with a blender and set to boil for 6-9 minutes, gradually adding water.
2. Chinese sweet and sour sauce
Roast duck or pork will take on new flavors when served with a sweet tomato-orange sauce.
You will need: 200 ml orange juice, 3 tbsp. l. tomato paste, 45 g corn flour, 280 ml purified water, 3 tbsp. l. soy sauce, 60 ml rice vinegar, 90 g sugar.
Cooking: Lightly whisk orange juice with sugar, tomato paste, vinegar, soy sauce. Add starch diluted in water, bring to a boil. Serve the sauce hot.
3. Sweet and sour pineapple sauce
This original sauce of ketchup, orange juice and juicy pineapple pieces is served with meat or fish.
You will need: 0.5 kg canned pineapple cubes, 1 tsp. soy sauce, 0.75 cups of orange juice, 40 g of sugar and ketchup, 3 tbsp. l. pineapple juice, 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice, 2 tbsp. l. corn starch, 70 ml of water.
Cooking: Put a mixture of orange, pineapple and lemon juices, soy sauce and ketchup to boil, when the mass becomes well warm, add starch and sugar dissolved in water. Remove from heat, pour over pineapple slices, serve hot.
4. Sweet and sour cherry sauce
The sauce is thick and rich, perfect for baked or fried meat.
You will need: 150 ml dry red wine, 160 g frozen pitted cherries, 2 tbsp. l. water, 1 tbsp. l. butter, 1 tbsp. l. sugar, 1 tbsp. l. potato starch.
Cooking: Heat the wine in a saucepan, pour in water with starch, as soon as it starts to thicken, add cherries along with juice, sugar and butter. Cook until the sauce has a uniform texture, but it should not boil at the same time!
5. Spicy sweet and sour sauce
A versatile sauce that will equally well emphasize the taste of meat, fish, vegetables and seafood. It has been prepared since the times of Ancient Rus’!
You will need: 0.6 l of filtered water, 0.4 kg of sugar, 2 tbsp. l. salt, 135 ml of vinegar, 4.5 tbsp. l. potato starch, 13 garlic cloves, 7-8 hot pepper pods.
Cooking: Clean the chili pods from the stalks and seeds, grind in a blender along with garlic. Put the burning paste into a ladle, add vinegar, water, salt and sugar, boil. Pour in potato starch diluted in water, simmer over low heat for three minutes.
6. Sweet and sour lingonberry sauce
This sauce is very popular in Sweden, it is boiled in large portions and prepared for the winter. Served with lamb, pork or beef dishes.
You will need: 500 g fresh or frozen cranberries, 1 orange, 1 onion, 3 tbsp. l. bee honey, 100 ml red wine Isabella, 1 tbsp. l. olive oil.
Cooking: In a cast-iron cauldron, fry the onion in olive oil, add the lingonberries, orange pulp puréed in a blender and zest, heat for 5 minutes. Put honey in the sauce, cook for another 12 minutes, then pour half the mass into a separate bowl, chop with a submersible blender and return to the cauldron . Pour in wine, remove from heat after 13-14 minutes.
7. Sweet and sour mango sauce
Delicious sauce of mango pulp and lime juice for barbecue or baked chicken.
You will need: 2 ripe mangoes, 1 tsp. lime juice, 160 ml water, 1 tbsp. l. potato starch, 0.5 tsp. ready-made seasoning for barbecue, 2 pinches of ground coriander, 1 pinch of oregano, 1 tsp. Sahara.
Cooking: Pour finely chopped mango pulp with water and lime juice, add spices, put on fire. Tomy on the minimum power of the stove until the mango softens, puree with an immersion blender, pouring the dilutedwater starch.
8. Sweet and sour cranberry sauce
Boiled, fried or baked pork will be instantly eaten by guests if cranberry sauce is placed next to it.
You will need: 200 g sugar 360 g cranberries (fresh or frozen) 1 cup purified water 3 tbsp. l. orange juice, 1 tbsp. l. cognac or brandy.
Cooking: Mix well all the ingredients indicated in the recipe, put to cook on the stove under the lid for 20-25 minutes. The cranberries should boil, turning the mass into a homogeneous thick sauce. Divide it into glass jars and store in the refrigerator.
9. Sweet and sour citrus sauce
Sesame orange sauce can be served with meat dishes or used as a marinade for barbecue, chicken and turkey.
You will need: 1 ripe orange, 0.5 lemon, 145 ml of fragrant olive oil, 1 tbsp. l. sesame, 3 tbsp. l. mustard seeds, 0.3 chili peppers, 0.5 tsp. salt.
Cooking: Squeeze juice from lemon and orange, mix with mustard and olive oil, beat with salt and spices. Add sesame seeds and finely chopped chili peppers.
10. Sweet and sour viburnum sauce
A cluster of viburnum can be easily turned into a delicious cinnamon and citrus flavored sauce for meat dishes.
You will need: 320 g viburnum berries, 1 orange, 1 tbsp. l. sugar or honey, 0.5 tsp. ground cinnamon.
Cooking: Boil viburnum for 7 minutes, grind through a sieve, mix with sugar and diced orange along with the peel. Boil everything together until softened, then add cinnamon and grind in a blender.
11. Sweet and sour plum sauce
For this recipe, you can use cherry plum or any other variety of unsweetened plums.
You will need: 3 kg of plums, 950 g of sugar, 1 sachet of dry adjika, 2 tsp. ground coriander, 1 chili pepper, 2.5 heads of garlic, 4 tsp. salt.
Cooking: Remove the seeds from the plums, cook over low heat until the juice is released, rub through a sieve. Boil the plum puree for 18 minutes, add chopped pepper, add coriander, adjika, sugar and salt. After simmering for 15 minutes, squeeze the garlic into the saucepan.
12. Apple sweet and sour sauce
Gourmets say that sweet and sour applesauce sauce is the perfect seasoning for baked chicken wings.
You will need: 1 large onion, 2 apples, 6 cloves of garlic 1 tsp. 70% vinegar, 1 tsp. ground chili pepper, 4 tbsp. l. sugar, 2 pinches of cinnamon, 0.3 tsp. salt, 25 ml vegetable oil, 20 g butter, 110 ml water.
Cooking: Pour apple pulp without peel and seeds with water, vinegar, vegetable oil and melted butter, bring to a boil. Add finely chopped onion and garlic, sauté until softened. Add spices and after 5-6 minutes beat with an immersion blender. Serve the sauce warm with poultry dishes.