Multi-Purpose sauce

 In the Vietnamese Cuisine, this sauce is used for multi-purposes to eat with dry noodles, but not to be confused with stir-fry noodles. This is the sauce to make a dry noodles dish more flavorful and delicious. This sauce can be used for Vietnamese sandwiches.  I sometimes use this sauce for baking fish, etc. The recipe that I share here today makes it very easy to create this homemade sauce at home.

Ingredients:

6 oz. ground meat (pork, chicken, or turkey)

1/4 cup oil

1 cup water

Sauce mixture:

 1 tbs chili sauce (tuong ot an pho)

 1/2 cup soy sauce

2 tbs oyster sauce

 1 tbs sate sauce (homemade or store-bought)

1 tbs ketchup

  3 garlic cloves (2 tablespoons)

2 shallots, minced

2 tbs honey or sugar

2 tbs mayonnaise sauce

5 tbs sugar

 Seasoning 10 grams

1 tbs seasoning (your choice)

 Thickening

1 tbs cornstarch

 Water 2 tbs 

Other ingredients:

 Cilantro  and scallion  1/4 cup each

1 tsp sesame oil

1/2 tsp black pepper

Directions:

Usually, In Vietnam they use pork with fat for this recipe. However, I use chicken because my family do not eating pork.

Satay you can buy pre-made or make your own at home.

Mayonnaise you can buy pre-made or make your own at home.

Heat the sauté pan with oil and add garlic. Cook garlic on low heat until fragrant. Stir in shallots and cook for 1 minute. 

Add ground meat and cook until the meat is no longer pink.

Add water  and the rest of the sauce mixture and continue cooking. Skim off any residue that arises to surface.

Taste the sauce and add more soy sauce or salt to your liking. The result is sweet and salty.

Mix cornstarch with 1 tablespoon of water and pour into the sauce to make the sauce thick.

 Turn off the heat then add cilantro /scallions. seame oil and black pepper.

I

only add cilantro/ scallion for the sauce if I use all the sauce. 

For more flavor, add 2 oz. pate (pork pate sold at Aldi).