Sugar Free Sweet and Sour Sauce

a spoon dipped into a jar of sweet and sour sauce

This Sugar Free Sweet and Sour Sauce is sweet, sour, savoury and tangy all at the same time. The sauce is thick and glossy and a rich vibrant shade of red and comes together in just 10 minutes.

Course Dinner

Cuisine Australian

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 5

Total Time 10

Servings cup

Calories 124kcal

Author Kim

Ingredients

¾ cup Tomato Passata
¼ cup Pineapple Juice
1 tablespoon Soy Sauce
2 teaspoons Finely grated ginger
2 teaspoons crushed garlic
1 teaspoon Chilli paste
2 teaspoons Granulated Sweetener that measures like sugar

Instructions

Add passata, pineapple juice, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, chilli paste and sweetener to a pot over medium to high heat. Stir until the sweetener has dissolved and sauce starts to bubble.
Remove from heat as soon as it reaches the desired consistency and set aside to cool.
Once cooled, pour into a clean mason jar. Alternatively use as a dipping sauce for chicken, fish fingers, or chips

Notes

Tomato Puree/Passata: this is the base of he sauce and using this helps to create a nice consistency to the sauce, such that you don;t need to use any additional thickener like cornflour.
Pineapple Juice: this gives the sauce its tartness. For convenience I like to use the juice from canned pineapple. Make sure to save the pineapple pieces as you can use them in your dish when you cook it. The sweetness of the pineapple pieces works beautifully.
Light Soy: this balances out the sauce and is the acidic component. Alternatively you could use dark soy sauce, tamari, rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
Garlic and Ginger: these are for flavour and help make the sauce well rounded. Fresh or bottled both work, and I tend to use bottled for convenience sake.
Granulated Sweetener: I use granulated monkfruit sweetener which is a natural sweetener that measures like sugar. Granulated stevia will also work. Alternatively you could substitute for honey.
Chilli Paste: I love a little spice to add complexity to dishes and that is what the chilli paste does. Its optional but recommended and it the sauce is still "mild". Alternatives are Fresh finely diced chillies, or dried red chilli flakes, but I find the chilli paste the best and it mixes in well with all the other ingredients.
Nutritional Information: the sugars are from the natural sweetness in the pineapple juice. Nutritional info is for ½ cup of sauce. Recipe makes 1 cup of sauce, suitable for 2 people if making a stir fry with meat and vegetables.

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