Vegan Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe

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This vegan sweet and sour sauce recipe is bright, sweet, and fantastic over rice, vegetables, or tofu!  Made with a few simple pantry staple ingredients, and ready in 10 minutes.

This sauce gets it’s classic sweetness from pineapple juice, and the bright color from paprika and chili flakes. It’s fantastic tossed with crispy baked tofu and is an easy weeknight sauce for your favorite entrees.

Let’s get saucy, with this fantastic homemade vegan sweet and sour sauce! This recipe couldn’t be easier to make: add all ingredients to a sauce pan, stir, and it’s ready in 10 minutes.

I love anything coated in sweet and sour sauce, but the kinds you buy at the store are loaded with preservatives and chemicals. This super simple sauce recipe get’s it’s sweetness from pineapple juice and sour flavor from rice vinegar. A pantry staple sauce that takes just minutes to whip up.

This Vegan Sweet & Sour Sauce Recipe Is:

• Thick
• Sweet
• Delicious
• Easy
• Flavorful
• Made with Natural Ingredients
• Great for Serving with Stir Fries

One of the BEST Pantry Sauce Recipes

This vegan sweet and sour sauce recipe is a fantastic pantry-staple meal!  It uses almost all ingredients you would have in your dry pantry or cupboards – most of which you probably have on hand. Keeping a well-stocked pantry makes it easy to come up with delicious meals using a few staples you can rotate. 

What’s In Sweet and Sour Sauce?

Be sure to visit the recipe card below for full ingredient amounts and recipe instructions!

• Pineapple Juice, I used the juice from a can of pineapple that I drained.
• Brown Sugar: I  like to use a dark brown sugar for this sauce because I find it has a really nice flavor.
• Unseasoned Rice Vinegar – I like to get unseasoned vinegar to control the amount of sugar and salt in this dish.
• Paprika – for a hint of color and great flavor!
• Red Chili Flakes: for a little heat!
• Ginger: I love adding fresh or ground ginger
• Liquid Aminos – Liquid aminos have a fraction of the sodium, but still a ton of the great flavor of soy sauce. We always keep a few bottles in our pantry!  It gives a great umami flavor to this dish
• Corn Starch: the secret to thicken the sauce at the end, it really makes a difference adding it to cold water!

How Do I Make Sweet and Sour Sauce Vegan?

1. In a sauce pan, add the pineapple juice and brown sugar, and whisk together over low heat.
2. Add the rice vinegar, paprika, chili flakes, ground ginger, and soy sauce and bring to a boil.  Once boiling, reduce heat to a low. In a separate bowl, mix the cornstarch and cold water until corn starch dissolves. Pour the corn starch into the pineapple juice mixture and mix well to combine.
3. Allow sauce to cook over low heat for 5 minutes until thickened. Toss with steamed vegetables, jasmine rice, or crispy baked tofu and enjoy!

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Vegan Sweet and Sour Sauce

By Kelly Jensen

This vegan sweet and sour sauce recipe is bright, sweet, and fantastic over rice, vegetables, or tofu!  Made with a few simple pantry staple ingredients, and ready in 10 minutes. This sauce gets it’s classic sweetness from pineapple juice, and the bright color from paprika and chili flakes. It’s fantastic tossed with crispy baked tofu and is an easy weeknight sauce for your favorite entrees.

5 from 4 votes

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Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 10 minutes mins

Course Sauce

Cuisine American, Asian

Servings 8 servings

Calories 80 kcal

Equipment

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  saucepan

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 1 cup pineapple juice I used the juice from a 16-ounce can of pineapple
• ▢ 1/2 cup brown sugar
• ▢ 1/3 cup rice vinegar unseasoned
• ▢ 1 teaspoon paprika
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon chili flakes
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• ▢ 1 tablespoon soy sauce/liquid aminos/tamari
• ▢ 2 tablespoons corn starch mixed with 3 tablespoons of cold water, must be cold for the corn starch to dissolve

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Instructions

 

• In a sauce pan, add the pineapple juice and brown sugar, and whisk together over low heat.
• Add the rice vinegar, paprika, chili flakes, ground ginger, and soy sauce and bring to a boil.  Once boiling, reduce heat to a low. In a separate bowl, mix the cornstarch and cold water until corn starch dissolves. Pour the corn starch into the pineapple juice mixture and mix well to combine.
• Allow sauce to cook over low heat for 5 minutes until thickened. Toss with steamed vegetables, jasmine rice, or crispy baked tofu and enjoy!

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Nutrition

Calories: 80kcalCarbohydrates: 19gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 133mgPotassium: 67mgFiber: 1gSugar: 16gVitamin A: 58IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 17mgIron: 1mg

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