Chinese Garlic Sauce (Stir fry Sauce)
Chinese garlic sauce is a stir fry sauce for all purposes. You can add them to your rice, noodles, or vegetable. This stir fry sauce is versatile and enhances the flavor of the dish.
Servings: 4
Calories: 72kcal
Equipment
- Saucepan
Ingredients
- 5 large garlic cloves finely chopped
- 2 tsp fresh ginger
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
For Sauce Mixture
- ½ cup veg broth or water
- 4 tbsp soy sauce or tamari
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 2 tbsp maple syrup or brown sugar or tomato ketchup
- 2 tbsp hot sauce
- 2 tsp chilli flakes
- 1 tsp toasted sesame oil
For Slurry
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 2 tbsp water
Instructions
- In a bowl, add broth, soy sauce, hot sauce, rice vinegar, maple syrup/ sugar/ tomato ketchup, chilli flakes, toasted sesame oil.
- In a small bowl, add corn starch and little water. Mix to make a slurry.
- Then heat oil in a pan.
- Add finely chopped garlic and ginger.
- Sauté on medium-low flame for a minute
- Add the broth mixture to the pan. Bring it to a boil.
- Simmer for 2 minutes.
- Now stir the slurry and pour in slowly to the simmering sauce stirring it continuously.
- Turn off heat when it's reached desired thickness or consistency.
- Stir fry garlic sauce is ready.
- Cool it completely and then transfer to a jar with lid and refrigerate for further use.
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Notes
If you want mildly sweet, you can substitute sugar with an equal amount of tomato ketchup.
Nutrition
Calories: 72kcal