10 Types Of Amazing Stir Fry Sauces Must Be Preserved. - trychinesegoodies.com (2024)

March 16, 2022 · Anna Lee · 20 Comments

These 10 Chinese stir fry sauces are the most popular and classic Chinese dishes. If you understand them, you can make them better than you can in a Chinese restaurant or takeaway. They’re healthier and low in fat. You can use these easy homemade stir fry sauces in your favorite stir fry recipes – chicken, beef, shrimp, or vegetable stir fry.

I suggest you mix them in your pantries and freeze them for later use. It saves time and is convenient. In the refrigerator, they’ll keep for up to 1 week. Frozen, they’ll last up to 3 months.

How to make stir fry sauce

1. Brown Sauce :

• 1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1/2 cup chicken stock or water
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 2 tsp cornstarch
• Aromatics:
• 2 tsp fresh ginger, minced
• 1 tbsp garlic, minced

Recommended Dishes: Mongolian Beef, Mongolian Chicken, Beijing Beef Panda Express,

2. Garlic Sauce:

• 1 cup chicken stock or water
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1 tbsp cornstarch
• Aromatics:
• 1 tbsp garlic, minced

Recommended Dishes: Beef and Broccoli, Chinese Broccoli Recipe, Chicken and Broccoli Recipe, Sauteed Eggplant And Green Beans With Garlic

3. White Sauce:

• 1/2 cup chicken stock or water
• 1/4 salt
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1 1/2 tbsp cornstarch
• Aromatics:
• 2 cloves garlic (thinly sliced)
• 6 thin slices of fresh ginger

Recommended Dishes: Moo Goo Gai Pan, Moo Shu Chicken, Moo Shu Vegetables

4. Kung Pao Sauce:

• 1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 2 tsp cornstarch
• 1/4 cup (60 ml) chicken stock or water
• Aromatics:
• 1 tsp minced garlic

Recommended Dishes: Kung Pao Chicken, Kung Pao Shrimp

5. Chinese Red Sauce (Sweet & Sour Sauce):

• 1/3 cup ketchup
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup rice vinegar
• 4 tsp soy sauce
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 tbsp cornstarch
• Aromatics:
• 2 cloves garlic, sliced

Recommended Dishes: Sweet And Sour Pork With Pineapple, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Sweet And Sour Shrimp, Baked Pork Chops and Rice in Sweet And Sour Sauce

6. Spicy Stir Fry Sauce- Hunan Style

• 1/2 tsp Chinese black vinegar
• 1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
• 2 teaspoons Toban Djan (Chili Bean Sauce)
• 2 tbsps Shaoxing wine
• 1 tsp cornstarch
• Aromatics:
• 5 cloves garlic (sliced)
• 5 sliced fresh ginger
• 3 long red peppers (sliced)

Recommended Dishes: Hunan Beef, Hunan Shrimp

7. Spicy Stir Fry Sauce- Szechuan Style with peppercorn

• 1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• Aromatics:
• 3 cloves garlic
• 3 thin slices of fresh ginger
• 25 small dried chile de arbol peppers or other dried chiles
• 1 tablespoon Sichuan peppercorns

Recommended Dishes: Szechuan Chicken, Szechuan Beef

8. Salt and Pepper:

• 1/4tspsalt
• 1/4tspground white pepper
• 5clovesgarlic,chopped
• 3scallions,sliced

Recommended Dishes: Salt and Pepper Shrimp

9. Black Pepper Sauce:

• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 60 ml water
• 1 tsp cornstarch
• 1tspketchup
• 1tspsugar
• Aromatics:
• 2 tbsp minced garlic
• 1tspblack pepper

Recommended Dishes: Chinese Pepper Steak With Onion, Beef Stir Fry With Noodles

10. Teriyaki Sauce:

• 1.5tablespoonsrice wine,Shaoxing wine or dry Sherry
• 4tablespoonssugar
• 4.5tablespoonssoy sauce
• 1/2tablespooncornstarch
• 200mlwater
• Aromatics:
• 1/2tablespoonginger pastemince

Recommended Dishes: Teriyaki Meatballs

What sauce should I buy for stir fry

Everything you need to make these sauces can be found in our post 9 Must-Have Chinese Condiments. With just these 9 sauces, you can cook most Chinese dishes.

How to make stir fry from scratch

You just need to follow these 6 steps, you will have a quick, healthy, and delicious dinner. And you will cook just like the Chinese restaurant style.

1. Marinade meat. Marinate the meat with all the ingredients and mix them well. Marinate it for at least 20 minutes. You can refer to my other post,“How To Velvet Beef or Pork For Stir Fry?”. There I show you how to cut and tenderize red meat.
2. Prepare stir fry sauce, aromatics and vegetables.
3. Sear the meat or protein. Add 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil to your hot wok (it should be almost smoking). Add the meat, sear on both sides, and set aside.
4. Sauté the aromatics- Heat oil in a pan over high heat until smoking. Add the aromatics, stirring, until light brown and fragrant, about 20 seconds.
5. Add vegetables then stir fry sauce and stir for 1 minute. For noodles- toss noodles with stir fry sauce first, before adding in vegetables.
6. Add the meat or protein back in and let the sauce thicken for 20-30 seconds. Transfer and serve with steamed rice immediately.

How to make vegan stir fry sauces

To make vegetarian/vegan stir-fry sauce:
Substitute vegetable or mushroom stock for the chicken stock.
Substitute vegetarian oyster sauce for the oyster sauce (vegetarian oyster sauce is made from mushrooms).
Recommended brand: Lee Kum Kee

How to make gluten-free stir fry sauces

To make gluten-free stir-fry sauce: use gluten-free soy sauce or tamari.
The dark soy sauce is in the recipe mainly for color, so simply omit it. The color won’t be quite as brown, but it’ll still have good flavor.
Use a gluten-free oyster sauce.
Recommended brand: Lee Kum Kee

Other sauces you should try:

Below you’ll find some sauces that you should try. You can make an extra portion of each sauce, put it in a bottle and freeze it. In this way, you can cook them whenever you want.

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