Chinese hot sauce

This five-minute simple recipe will allow you to diversify your favorite dishes of Chinese cuisine. It can also be used in the preparation of roast meat, vegetable stew, rice glass noodles and other dishes. The finished sauce turns out to be very fragrant and piquant to the taste.
Chinese hot sauce turns out to be quite spicy, but if desired, the original recipe can be slightly changed. By adjusting the amount of spicy and sweet foods, you can achieve the ideal proportions to your liking. For lovers of spicy, add more chili pepper or crushed red pepper, and for those who are afraid of too spicy food, you can put more maple syrup or add a pinch of brown sugar to the recipe.

The basis of this sauce, like most Chinese sauces, is soy brown sauce. Soy sauce is a very useful low-calorie product that replaces salt and oil in the kitchen. Soybeans, from which it is made, contain a large amount of amino acids, minerals and vitamins. There is a very wide variety of this product in stores now. There are several rules when choosing soy sauce. A high-quality product must be sold in a transparent glass container. The sauce itself is brown and there should be no sediment or cloudy inclusions in it. The sauce may include soybeans, vinegar, wheat, salt and sugar.

Chinese hot sauce is prepared very quickly and simply. Even a person far from the kitchen can cope with its preparation. The main thing is to buy the right and high-quality set of products.

Put all the ingredients of the Chinese hot sauce in a separate bowl and beat everything with a kitchen whisk until a homogeneous consistency. Tasting the ready-made sauce, you can add certain products to your taste - sweeten too hot sauce or, conversely, make it even more piquant with an edge. The sauce turns out to be quite liquid. You can leave it this way or thicken it a little. To do this, pour the sauce into a small saucepan and bring it to a boil over low heat with constant stirring with a spoon and turn off the heat.As a result, the finished sauce will become thicker. Then it can be cooled and poured into an airtight container. Thus, the finished sauce can be stored for up to 4 days in the refrigerator.

Chinese hot sauce is ready. Bon appetit!