La Cucina Italiana | Italian recipes, cooking, ingredients and food guides. CopyKat Recipes. Cooking Tips including guides to seafood, poultry, pastry, sauces and more. Authentic Chinese Restaurant Sweet and Sour Sauce. The commercial sauce you typically get in restaurants is available at most big grocery markets and all commercial food suppliers. The reason commercial sauce tastes different and has different texture is because it is commercially made in enormous quantities using corn sweeteners and food colouring. If that is what you really want, you can add clear corn syrup to white rice vinegar and lemon juice, then add drops of red and yellow food dye to achieve the saturated orange colour of the commercial product.
Stir thoroughly or blend in a mixer, heat and serve. True sweet and sour is supposed to have a balance of "yin" and "yang" which in this case means sweet and sour. The texture and colour is typically what most Westerners recognize as an "authentic" S&S sauce. REAL sweet and sour is pungent, very sour, lightly sweetened and very thin. Here is the easy way to make pungent sweet and sour; This mixture heats OK in a microwave on LOW.
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