Sweet and sour sauce

[olkini]

Where can I get the sauce which comes with sweet and sour chicken or pork from the takeaway?

[Graham-W]

Supermarket. It's called "Sweet & Sour Sauce".

[ummmm]

lol

[askyourgran]

Blue Dragon, or Uncle Ben's Sweet and Sour sauce from Asda. Do you ever go shopping olkini?

[Graham-W]

To make your own:
Put together in a pan: Juice from a 4 oz can of pineapple chunks or rings, ¼ cup of tomato ketchup, ¼ cup of distilled white vinegar, ¼ cup of brown sugar and 1½ tbsp of cornflower. Mix well and heat until the mixture thickens. Job done.

[olkini]

Yes I do and am a competent cook but my children like the sauce which comes from our takeaway and wondered if anyone would be able to help - obviously not!

[Fanriffic]

Your local Chinese takeaway will probably sell this on it's own as an 'extra/side dish'.
Sweet 'N' Sour sauce is readily available at your local Supermarket (UK).
Not that I'm advertising or promoting them but Blue Dragon and Uncle Ben's do good sauces.

[tenrec]

Morrisons have one in the chill cabinet that is just the same as takeaway. In a little carton.

[Psybbo]

Have you asked your takeaway if they will sell you the sauce on its own?

[grasscarp]

Was at my daughters the other night and for a recipe she needed plum sauce. In less than the time it would have taken me to walk to shop to look for this she found a recipe on Internet and made some with a punnet of reduced price plums she had. Delicious!

[diddlydo]

Why on earth would you want sweet and sour sauce as produced in cheap takeaways - dreadful stuff.

[mikey4444]

I can't really see what the difficulty is. Sweet and Sour Sauce is available just about anywhere. Most places have a Chinese and/or Indian foodshop nearby. This is where restaurants and takeaways get their sauce from.

But Graham-W's recipe looks nice ! I remember making something similar years ago and it was very tasty.