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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Videos / 8 Easy Condiments to Make (Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe + VIDEO)

8 Easy Condiments to Make (Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe + VIDEO)

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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  • Healthy Salad Dressings and Sauces (video)
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sweet and sour sauce recipe, homemade sweet and sour sauceWant to take a very decisive step toward health?

Ditch those MSG, rancid vegetable oil, additive filled dressings and sauces from the store and start making your own!

No bottled sauces or dressings compare to the flavor and quality of homemade salad dressings and sauces – even the organic brands. Not only will you be doing your health a huge favor by taking this step, but you will be saving quite a bit of money too! 

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Healthy Salad Dressings and Sauces (video)

I demonstrate 8 recipes in this video below. You will quickly see how fast and easy it is to make these sauces even when a time crunch is part of your normal daily routine. Here is the list of what is covered:

  1. Basic salad dressing
  2. Healthy mayonnaise
  3. Homemade ketchup
  4. Teriyaki sauce
  5. Barbecue sauce
  6. Sweet and sour sauce
  7. Cocktail sauce
  8. Thousand Island dressing

The sweet and sour sauce recipe is one of the more popular ones from the video. This is included in a written recipe following the demonstration.

Other recipes to try not covered in the video include a homemade maple kombucha salad dressing, raspberry vinaigrette and homemade honey mustard.

For a complete transcript of this video, please click over to the Weston A. Price Foundation.

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Homemade Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe

Easy recipe for sweet and sour sauce that you can make in minutes to serve with a homecooked chicken dinner. Great for dipping or poured over grilled chicken breasts.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Servings 6
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

  • 1 cup ketchup preferably homemade or organic
  • 1/4 cup raw apple cider vinegar
  • 1/4 cup maple syrup

Instructions

  1. Mix all the ingredients well in a small glass bowl.

  2. Serve immediately.

  3. Refrigerate leftovers.

Recipe Notes

Substitute date syrup instead of maple syrup if a GAPS legal, fruit sweetened dressing is needed.

Be sure the ACV you use comes in glass containers. The acidity of ACV will leach toxins if stored in plastic.

For example, while Bragg raw ACV is excellent, do not buy the gallon size which comes in plastic. Stick with 1 liter glass bottles for this brand.

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Category: Condiment & Sauces, Fermented Sauces, Sauces and Dressings, Videos
Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her eBooks Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (68)

  1. D.

    Aug 10, 2011 at 1:36 pm

    I don’t have a food processor, much less one which “pulses” (for the mayo)! Also, I can’t stand the taste of olive oil (nor sesame) – so I use avocado oil or grape seed oil for my salad dressings and homemade mayo. Any suggestions on how to make mayo without a food processor? Mine always flops so I’m looking for someone who really knows how to make the stuff. My blender (Cuisinart) has a round rubber top thingy which is removable so I can drizzle the oil that way, but every time I try to make mayo in it, I end up with slop – it never really thickens. My DH doesn’t like real mayo, he likes that crappy Miracle Whip. Any recipes floating around which would taste like that junk?

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    • Marisa

      Aug 11, 2011 at 3:48 pm

      You could also use a stick/hand blender if you have one, they are pretty inexpensive compared to food processors. Make sure to drizzle the oil very slowly to make it emulsify right, so it gets thick and stays that way. Maybe you could also throw in another egg yolk for good measure. Miracle Whip is slightly sweet so I guess adding sugar would do it–otherwise Google is always the answer when looking for a recipe ;D

  2. kelly

    Aug 10, 2011 at 11:56 am

    Great job!

    Reply
    • Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist

      Aug 10, 2011 at 12:12 pm

      Thanks so much Kelly! 🙂 There is a lot of work that goes into planning and filming these videos … and the goal is to make it look like the whole thing was a piece of cake which is kind of ironic!

  3. Amy [email protected] Food Whole Health

    Aug 10, 2011 at 11:44 am

    Found your mayo post….I have been using half olive and half coconut, which is very tasty and great for salad dressings, etc. Since we are grainfree I don’t often spread it on anything, just use it in chicken/tuna/salmon salad, as a base for dressings and in dips. I’m going to experiment with adding just a touch of another oil to see if that changes the consistency- thanks for your fantastic posts 🙂

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  4. Amy [email protected] Food Whole Health

    Aug 10, 2011 at 11:37 am

    This is great! I love how the recipes build on each other- thanks, Sarah!! And excellent quality video, by the way, really nice!! 🙂 My mayo never turns out that thick…what oil did you use?

    Reply
    • Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist

      Aug 10, 2011 at 12:11 pm

      I used half sesame and half coconut oil – my current favorite blend.

  5. Mike Lieberman (@CanarsieBK) (@CanarsieBK)

    Aug 10, 2011 at 11:22 am

    Homemade Salad Dressings and Sauces http://bit.ly/mTsMOr via @HealthyHomeEcon

    Reply
  6. Mike Lieberman

    Aug 10, 2011 at 11:22 am

    My favorite base salad dressing it olive oil, lemon, nama shoyu and raw honey. Can spice it up from there. Simple and good.

    Reply
    • Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist

      Aug 10, 2011 at 11:25 am

      Oh, sounds delicious! Are you able to share the proportions of each with us?

  7. Heather

    Aug 10, 2011 at 11:13 am

    Great tips. I’ve been making my own dressings and sauces for years now and the store bought stuff doesn’t even compare when it comes to taste.

    Reply
  8. Ocoee Miller

    Aug 10, 2011 at 10:32 am

    I really wish I could print a text version of the recipes. My computer won’t let me see videos so I miss out when that is the only way the information is conveyed. Ocoee

    Reply
    • Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist

      Aug 10, 2011 at 10:46 am

      Click on the link to the transcript of the video and the recipes are printed there.

  9. Faisal Almadanny (@FaisalAlmadanny)

    Aug 10, 2011 at 10:30 am

    Yumm (ˆڡˆ) RT @HealthyHomeEcon: Video: 8 Homemade Salad Dressings and Sauces – The Healthy Home Economist http://t.co/U6zHbds

    Reply
  10. Laurie

    Aug 10, 2011 at 9:10 am

    Thanks for this. My son is really sensitive to dairy and cane sugar. This makes buying organic condiments hard to find because they usually contain sucanat. I will be returning to this video to make all our favorities (ranch dressing). This came at just the right time.

    Reply
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