Chinese-Style Sweet-and-Sour Pineapple Sauce
You simply have to try this unusual sauce! This sweet-and-sour pineapple sauce is wonderful with pan-fried meat or fish. Honestly, to my mind it's less a sauce than a side dish — but a very light, tasty, fragrant one that goes perfectly with meat.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Gather your ingredients and let's make this sweet-and-sour pineapple sauce. If your canned pineapple comes in rings, cut it into chunks; if you bought it already in chunks, there's nothing to do.
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Step 2:
Dissolve the starch in the water in a separate bowl (I use potato starch).
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Step 3:
In a small, preferably heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine the tomato paste, soy sauce, and the pineapple, lemon, and orange juices. Set it over low heat and warm it through.
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Step 4:
Once the mixture is warm, pour in the starch-water mixture and stir.
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Step 5:
As soon as the sauce starts to bubble, add the pineapple. Stir and let it cook for about 1 minute.
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Step 6:
Take the sauce off the heat, transfer it to a serving bowl, and serve right away — this is best served hot. If you think it needs more salt, add some to taste, though the soy sauce usually provides plenty.
- One of my friends likes to add diced sweet bell pepper to this sweet-and-sour pineapple sauce. My sister makes a similar one with tomatoes, onion, carrot, and corn, and adds various spices: ground cayenne, curry powder, mustard, ground black pepper, and so on. I plan to get the full recipe from her and try it too. I love my version as is, but it's never too late to learn something new. You can try different variations to compare and build your cooking skills. This sauce can even be canned for winter, which is another option. I make it now and then for holidays — there are always takers eager to try it with all sorts of meat dishes, and judging by the enthusiastic reviews, it's always a hit.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Pineapples - 49 kcal/100g
- Canned pineapples - 57 kcal/100g
- Soy sauce - 51 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Starch - 320 kcal/100g
- Tomato paste - 28 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Lemon juice - 16 kcal/100g
- Orange juice - 36 kcal/100g
- Pineapple juice - 48 kcal/100g
