It's less than a month before New Year's Eve. Is everyone's dinner menu ready? There are few people in the family. Every time we cook 12 dishes, five cold dishes, five hot dishes and two soups. There are many kinds of hot dishes, but I always like to make a sweet and sour dish, which is sweet and sour, suitable for all ages.

Many ingredients can be made into sweet and sour flavor, such as sweet and sour tenderloin, sweet and sour ribs, sweet and sour meatballs, sweet and sour fish and so on. The method is similar. All ingredients are fried first and then sprinkled with sweet and sour juice, so the key to good taste is sweet and sour juice.

Friends around me make sweet and sour juice "casually", thinking that as long as there is sugar and vinegar, it is not possible.

Without a fixed proportion, sweet and sour dishes taste different every time, and the taste is definitely not good. All the sweet and sour dishes in the restaurant are delicious. How is the sweet and sour juice mixed? Do you have any skills? Let me share a trick with you. The chef said that no matter what sweet and sour dishes you cook, you should remember a recipe to ensure delicious food.

General Formula of Sweet and Sour Juice

This formula is "powder vinegar and sugar sauce water", which represents five seasonings, starch, vinegar, sugar, tomato sauce and water. The arrangement order represents the proportion, 1:2:3:4:5. The order of addition is from more to less, first add water, then add sauce, then add sugar and vinegar, and finally add starch.

The sweet and sour dishes made from it are ruddy in color, moderate in sweetness and sourness, and very delicious.

What if there is no ketchup? Here's a simple version for you. Every family has spices, cooking wine, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar and water, and the ratio is still 1:2:3:4:5. This is the most traditional sweet and sour juice, which tastes good, but the coloring effect is worse than tomato sauce.

Share a delicious sweet and sour sparerib with you, which is robbed every time you serve it. They are sweet and sour, fragrant and tender, and can eat three bowls of rice. New Year's Eve is arranged!

Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs

Prepare fresh ribs, shallots, ginger, star anise, salt, soy sauce, cooking wine, balsamic vinegar, sugar and cooked white sesame seeds.

working methods

1. Select fresh ribs, rinse them with clear water, chop them into small pieces, put them in a pot with cold water, add onions, ginger slices and cooking wine, and bring them to a boil over high fire. After boiling the foam, skim it off with a spoon. After boiling for 5 minutes without foam, remove the ribs, rinse them with hot water, and drain the water for later use.

2. Add 5 tablespoons of water, 4 tablespoons of tomato sauce, 3 tablespoons of white sugar, 2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar and 1 tablespoon of starch into a small bowl and stir well with a spoon.

3. Heat the wok, pour in the right amount of oil, add the onion, ginger and star anise, stir fry over low heat, and pour in the ribs and stir fry for a few minutes. When you smell meat, the color is golden yellow.

4. Pour the sweet and sour juice into a small bowl, stir fry quickly and evenly, color the ribs, and pour appropriate amount of boiling water.

5. After the fire boils, turn to low heat and cover the pot for 30 minutes. After the ribs are soft and rotten, turn on the fire to collect the juice and turn them frequently with a shovel to prevent the bottom from being burnt.

6, according to personal preferences, decide how much soup to leave, I usually leave some soup to soak in rice. Turn off the fire after collecting the juice and serve. Sprinkle with chopped green onion and cooked white sesame seeds, and the sweet and sour pork ribs will be ready.

Vegetarian dishes and meat dishes can use this "universal sweet and sour juice", and the taste is the same.

"Hint"

Traditional sweet and sour juice contains cooking wine, soy sauce and vinegar, all of which contain a certain amount of salt, so it is generally unnecessary to add salt. Mix the sweet and sour sauce with tomato sauce, add appropriate amount of salt according to personal taste before taking out the pot, or add no light taste.

If you can't eat sour, it is recommended to use rice vinegar and balsamic vinegar instead of white vinegar and aged vinegar.

Sweet and sour juice contains a lot of sugar. Pay attention to turn it over when collecting juice, otherwise it will be easy to paste the bottom, the color will be black and the taste will be bitter.