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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Chinese Food?

I have no idea what to even call this. When I discovered the recipe for this amazing sauce, it belonged to a recipe for something like General Tso Chicken. I've since used this sauce in so many different meals that there's no way I could refer to it as the General Tso Chicken Sauce. All I know is that it reminds me of American-Chinese food. So that's what I'm calling it. The question mark in the title is not a question, but a legitimate part of the title itself.

Whatever it is, it's one of my favorite things to eat.



I've tried slow-cooking stew beef in this sauce, and I've tried stir-fried strips (and/or little chunks) of beef covered in it. I promise I've had it with chicken too, but I prefer the beef so I never take any pictures. Sorry.


I've had it with rice, and I've had it with rice noodles.



I sometimes even make it without the broccoli. GASP.



There are endless possibilities, people! Just please make this sauce and eat it soon. Thank you.

Chinese Food? Sauce
Yield: Enough for two to four portions of varying sizes of meat/veggies and to be served over the accompanying rice/noodles. It's kind of a rough estimate...obviously.
Recipe originally found on Kitchen Simplicity.


2 tbsp corn starch*
1 cup water
8 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
6 tbsp (1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp) brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes

* This sauce has a very gloppy consistency like the one that covers General Tso Chicken. If you would like to make it more of a pourable sauce, you'll probably want to cut back on the cornstarch.

  • Mix the cornstarch with just enough water to make a paste, then mix it into the rest of the water. 
  • Dump in the rest of the ingredients.
  • Brown your meat of choice
  • Pour in the sauce and let it simmer until it gets nice and thick
  • Eat with rice and broccoli, or snow peas and noodles, or whatever else you can think of! You could also make a batch without the corn starch to marinade meat in. Then maybe put it on sticks and serve it like they do with beef teriyaki! Yum.

2 comments:

  1. woah that's a lot of garlic
    ps the broccoli makes it much prettier!

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  2. Indeed! But it really isn't that strong, especially since it just floats around in the sauce. Not much surface area or direct heat.

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