Although we sell Sweet and Sauce ready-made, we are sometimes asked for an authentic recipe. You need to remember the formula 2-2-1-1:
Ingredients
2 parts sugar (sweet)
2 parts rice vinegar (sour)
1 part light soy sauce (flavour)
1 part tomato ketchup (colour, flavour)
and some water (or pineapple juice)
So for example you could use either tablespoons or cups to measure the above, depending upon how much sauce you want to make.
Method
Combine the ingredients together in a saucepan and bring to the boil, simmer for 2 minutes. You may need to add a little bit more of water to adjust the thickness. If you want a thicker sauce, then mix a teaspoon of cornflour or potato flour with cold water and add to the sauce, and simmer for another 2 minutes.
To make Cantonese style sweet and sour chicken, first cut 500g of chicken breast into 2cm pieces and fry in a little oil until brown. Add a chopped red or green bell pepper and stir fry until the chicken is cooked through. Remove from the pan, and make up the sweet and sour souce as above in the same pan. Add a small tin of drained pineapple chunks, and return the chicken & peppers to the pan to heat through. Serve.
