Easy Homemade Chow Mein Sauce (Only 5 ingredients!)

Easy Homemade Chow Mein Sauce (Only 5 ingredients!)

This quick and easy homemade chow mein sauce is made with just 5 simple ingredients but tastes incredible – so much nicer than overly sugary, artificial-tasting, store-bought chow mein sauces!

Course Sauce

Cuisine Asian, Chinese

Prep Time 2

Cook Time 3

Total Time 5

Servings people

Calories 86kcal

Author Eb Gargano

Ingredients

1 tablespoon cornflour
3 tablespoons cold water
3 tablespoons oyster sauce
4 tablespoons dark soy sauce
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons sesame oil

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Place the cornflour and the water in a small saucepan. Stir to combine thoroughly.
Add the oyster sauce, soy sauce, vinegar and sesame oil, and stir to combine.
Heat the sauce until it starts to bubble, then turn the heat right down and simmer for 1-2 minutes, or until you’ve reached your desired consistency.
Alternatively, if you are using this sauce in a recipe like Special Chow Mein, then there’s no need to pre-cook the sauce. Simply mix up the ingredients in a jam jar, or similar, and then throw the sauce straight into the Special Chow Mein for the last 2-3 minutes of cooking time to cook through and thicken up.

Notes

My Homemade Chow Mein Sauce contains no additional sugar as I found it was unnecessary and made the sauce too sweet for my tastes. (There is already a small amount of sugar in the oyster sauce.) However, if you prefer a sweeter sauce, feel free to add 1 teaspoon of brown sugar to this sauce.
Suitable for freezing.
Nutrition information is approximate and meant as a guideline only.

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