Brown Sauce for Stir Fry

This blog has become a nice repository for my recipes.  Here's one that is very good with all kinds of stir fry.

1. 1/2 c soy sauce
2. 1 1/2 c water
3. 1/8 t white pepper
4. 1/2 t ginger powder
5. 1/2 t onion powder
6. 3 T corn starch

I've used this sauce for all kinds of beef w/ veggies and chicken w/ veggies recipes.

Addendum: I should have added directions to my recipe, just in case.  I mix all the ingredients together while my meat and veggies are cooking in the wok.  After I've stir fried my meat and veggies, I push them to the side, add the sauce, and wait until the sauce thickens (a couple of minutes or so under medium heat).  I then mix the meat, veggies, and sauce together, turn the heat to low, cover, and simmer for about 5 minutes.

Note that a good marinade is this brown sauce plus about 2 tablespoons of peanut or sesame oil.  I marinate the meat (chicken or beef) overnight.  Besides adding flavor, the marinade makes the meat more tender.

Comments

[Ironman]

Replace the ginger powder with 1 t fresh minced ginger, add 1 t fresh minced garlic, and maybe turn it up a notch by adding 1 t chile paste (Sambal Oelek is good), and then you'll be on to something!...

[Phil]

Ironman,

Garlic, sadly, doesn't agree with my mom. So I leave it out of some recipes. My spicy sauce may be more to your liking. http://marketpower.typepad.com/market_power/2008/05/spicy-brown-sau.html

[Ironman]

I believe you might have something there!