From time to time, my wife makes stir-fry entrees. Generally she uses Teriyaki sauce.
We would like to try making something that has a flavor that is similar to the flavor one experiences at American Chinese restaurants.
What types of sauces or flavorings should we use to replicate this flavor?
Also, are there any recipes on the Internet to make stir fry meals that taste more like Chinese restaurant food?
Cecesan
Favorite Answer
In my opinion, many Chinese dishes use oyster sauce as one of their signature sauce. They can combine other sauces to enhance the taste to make it stronger, fuller, richer and more aromatic. Like oyster sauce with hoisin sauce, chili bean sauce like (tai pan cheong), XO sauce (dried scallop infused sauce) shrimp sauce, light and dark soy sauce, garlic chili bean sauce, black/brown beans paste, fermented spicy tofu paste, garlic and ginger sauce, plum sauce, hawthorn berries (san char) sauce etc. Then with Chinese cooking wine, Chinese rice wine, sesame oil, rock sugar, brown sugar, and those spices like 5 spice powder, white pepper, onions, garlic, ginger, spring onions and several others more including MSG etc. Even I am a Chinese, I don't store all those sauces but the most common sauce I use is oyster sauce infused in garlic oil for most stir fries *
Stephen L
Try this. Feel free to 'fine tune' it to your tastes.
INGREDIENTS
1cm (½ inch) piece of fresh ginger
1 tablespoon of cornflour
2 teaspoons of water
¼ of a teaspoon of ground pepper
½ a teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of sesame oil
2 tablespoons of dark soy sauce
1 teaspoon of sugar
METHOD
Peel the ginger and chop it into tiny pieces.
Put the corn flour into a cup. Add the water a teaspoon at a time. Stir each time until it has dissolved.
Put the pepper, salt, sesame oil, soy sauce and sugar into another cup. Mix thoroughly
Add the cornflour mixture. Mix thoroughly.
Tiffany
Sweet and Sour Sauce is great!
Rona Lachat
Try HOI SIN sauce.