I wanted to eat inexpensive but filling atsuage with vegetables in a sweet and sour sauce, but I wanted it to be a hearty dish...When toasting the atsuage in the toaster oven, use a tray or aluminum foil to catch the moisture. Recipe by Manatake

I always buy those fancy sweet and sour sauce bottles that Heinz makes. But i thought to myself, why not do it from scratch on my own? At least you get to know every single ingredient.

Experiment that worked !

I had some leftover bean sprouts, so I came up with a recipe I could make fairly quickly... It was cold out, so I tried it with a thick sauce.Bean sprouts are great because they're nice and crispy and can be prepared very quickly! I wrote "one bag" for the bean sprouts, but you can use 200g or 250g--whichever you prefer. For serving 2. Recipe by Maa-a

I had a craving for Taiwanese food, so I recreated a flavor I had at a Taiwanese restaurant. This is a standard dish in our home.Cook the chicken slowly over medium heat since it takes time to cook through. In Step 7, thicken the sauce to desired consistency. Be careful not to create lumps. Recipe by Mizorecchifan

Green bell peppers and eggplant were in season this summer and autumn in my garden!I added some chicken breast that was on sale for around 100 yen ($1) to make dinner!It looks like sweet and sour pork so I cooked it using a similar sauce. It'll taste better when cooled if you use just a small bit of sauce. It's delicious in bento, too!-It's nice even without doubanjiang spicy bean paste!-Substitute chili oil or ichimi togarashi (japanese red chilli pepper) for the doubanjiang spicy bean paste.-Adding extra bamboo shoot, carrot, onion and shiitake mushrooms would be perfect. Like sweet and sour pork!-Do not stir fry the bell peppers too long or they'll lose their crunchiness.-Reduce the sauce at the end so that ketchup and vinegar are less acidic. Recipe by moj

I really love fried chicken topped with onion and sweet and sour sauce. So, I tried a pork version.I think this sauce could be used in many dishes. It goes well with fried chicken and would give a deliciously mild taste to shredded vegetables. You can also use thinly sliced pork. Recipe by Raby

I wanted to eat tofu in a different way than I usually do, so I thought this up. I mixed my favorite ketchup with vinegar, and was able to come up with this mild sweet and sour ketchup sauce.1) When not using honey for the sauce, a tablespoon of sugar should suffice.2) Make sure to thoroughly drain the tofu. If you want to sweeten it, add sugar in 1/2 tablespoon intervals to taste. When you mix in the water, this is useful because the water from the tofu will drain out and mix with the ankake.3) I used a small 200g package of firm tofu. You can use silken tofu, but be aware that it breaks apart easily. Recipe by MilkLove

I always had e stuffed peppers with ketchup, but I wanted to try something different and thought up this recipe.I think doing Step 2 on plastic wrap will make it easier to clean up ♪Cover the green bell peppers evenly and thinly with katakuriko to prevent the stuffed meat from falling out.Reduce the heat to low at Step 5 and keep shaking the fry pan when you add the ● ingredients to make the sauce thicker. For 10. Recipe by EnjoyKitchen

Ever since I was a child, I liked to putter around in the kitchen. Sometimes I watched my late mom cooking. Most of the time she asked me to do this and that. I can still hear her voice telling me to peel or chop something. Growing up, I was blessed with a warm family and a home full of delicious dishes. My mother was always cooking something. Spicy rendang, stir-fry, seafood dishes, oh, how I'the love to return to that state of bliss when my parents were still alive and we could have a normal dinner together, chatting about mundane stuff.I am grateful for those memories. Now I am passing them to my kids. They are no stranger in the kitchen and in a way I am happy because my mother would love this.I learned (and am still learning) cooking by trial and error. The internet has opened my eyes to plenty of food around the world, but sometimes I yearn for the familiar, like this sweet and sour sauce. Being an Asian, we naturally collect tomato and chili sauce sachets from take-outs so we always have some around the house.#givingthanks

I was absolutely blown away by a delicious pork dish that my friend had made, so I changed the pork to chicken and added oyster sauce and garlic to make my own version.When adding the sake to the frying pan, you can turn off the heat temporarily if you're worried about the alcohol flaring up. Recipe by Raby

I don't like sweet and sour pork made with deep fried pork, so at some point I started using easy to make meatballs instead. I've also settled on this light soy sauce flavored sauce rather than the usual ketchup flavored one.*Adjust the amount of meatballs you add to taste.*By mixing the katakuriko with the flavoring ingredients beforehand, you can prevent lumps from forming in the sauce. Recipe by Akane