Basic Sweet and Sour Sauce

You can use this sauce for many dishes like pork for fish.

Ingredients

1. 3 chinese table spoon of tomato ketchup
2. 1 chinese table spoon of sugar
3. 1 chinese table spoon of soya sauce
4. 1/4 teaspoon of salt
5. 1 teaspoon corn flour
6. 1/3 cup water
7. 1 teaspoon of minced garlic
8. 1 chinese tablespoon cooking oil

Method

1. Mixed ingredient 1 to 6 in a bowl.  (tip, add the flour last, and after adding, leave it to sink into the water before stiring, and this will avoid the lumpy flour effect) 
2. Heat up sauce pan or work or frying pan, add oil and garlic, stir fry till fragrance and lightly brown.
3. Add in the mixture and bring to boil, simmer till consistency is right.
4. Add in pre-cooked item to coat them or simply scoop the gravy into a bowl as a sweet and sour dip.