Need an easy recipe for sweet ans sour sauce.?!

A basic sweet and sour sauce from Sandy H. Use this sweet and sour sauce with chicken wings, pork ribs, and more. Scroll down for more recipes.
INGREDIENTS:

* 1/4 cup ketchup
* 1/4 cup sugar
* 1 cup water
* 1/4 cup white vinegar
* 2 heaping Tbl. cornstarch, dissolved in 2 Tbl. water
* 1 green pepper, cut into small squares
* 2 tablespoons canned pineapple chunks

PREPARATION:
Combine first four ingredients in saucepan. Bring to boil. Thicken with dissolved cornstarch. Stir constantly. Add green pepper and pineapple. Stir.
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I know you said easy however if you ever want the real deal here's a really good recipe i got from my chinese restaurant.

Fill a large pan with water and add diced apples (Sweet apples), oranges, celery, and pears to the pot. You will need a lot of the fruit not so much of the celery.

Cook the fruit for a few hours until the fruit goes mushy and collapses, once this happens strain the fruit from the water and re-heat the fruity water once again.
Let the water boil gently for about 2 more hours until in has reduced by about 1/3. This is your base for the sweet and sour sauce, this is also used for sauces such as peking sauce, O.K sauce etc..

Now take a cup of the fruity water and add a little lemon sauce, plum sauce, white vinegar, brown sugar and red food coloring. Heat up the sauce and add 2 tbls of cornstarch slurry (cornstarch mixed with water)

**Note that i haven't given any quantities this is purely down to your taste. When adding the ingredients just keep tasting and then in becomes a sauce your prefer from your taste aspect.

1 c. sugar
1 c. white vinegar
1 c. catsup
1 c. water
Mix together ingredients in a saucepan. Cook over low heat until thick and bubbly, about 1 hour. (Mixture will be even thicker when cool.) Makes about 2 cups. Sauce keeps indefinitely in the refrigerator. Recipe #2 2 cups water 2/3 cup distilled white vinegar 1 1/2 cups white sugar 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste 1 (8 ounce) can pineapple tidbits, drained 3 tablespoons cornstarch DIRECTIONS In a medium saucepan over medium heat, mix together water, distilled white vinegar, white sugar, tomato paste, pineapple tidbits and cornstarch. Cook, stirring occasionally, 15 minutes, or until mixture reaches desired color and consistency.

You can use jelly or jam , microwave just enough to warm it up then whisk it in a bowl add a tablespoon or 2 or vinegar.. pineapple, cherry or apricot works best but any will work also pineapple juice add 2 tablespoons of cornstarch and 2 tablespoon sugar to 11/4 cups of pineapple juice, whisk till mixed heat in pan until thick stirring constantly... One word about vinegar I always use only apple cider vinegar the white vinegar is fine for cleaning and laundry but not for cooking ... apple cider is the healthy vinegar it cost a a little bit more, but well worth every penny

2 tbsp. cornstarch 1/2 c. sugar 1/4 c. white vinegar 1/4 c. pineapple juice 2 tsp. soy sauce 1/4 c. water Combine ingredients in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Simmer gently 5 minutes, remove from heat.

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