How to Make Duck Sauce: Easy 5 Minute Recipe - The Woks of Life (2024)

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What is homemade duck sauce made of? ›

Ingredients. It is made of plums, apricots, pineapples or peaches added to sugar, vinegar, ginger and chili peppers. It is used in more traditional Chinese cuisine in the form of plum sauce.

Duck sauce is a popular condiment most associated and used with Americanized Chinese cooking. It is often offered in a little packet alongside the soy sauce and spicy mustard. It often has an orangey brown color. It's much sweeter than soy sauce or spicy mustard, but with a noticeable tang.

Duck sauce is a classic accompaniment to spring rolls, egg rolls, and other fried foods in Westernized Chinese cuisine. It's a sweet-and-sour sauce made with fruit such as plum, apricot, peaches, or pineapple, plus vinegar and a little chile.

Peking duck sauce is another name for the hoisin sauce. It is a sauce made with soy sauce, garlic, chilli, and various spices. Peking duck sauce is famous as a key ingredient in the Peking duck dish made in China.

It's not quite the same as sweet and sour sauce, but the flavors are pretty similar. I would say that duck sauce is more for dipping and sweet and sour sauce is used more for coating and glazing, as in sweet and sour pork or sweet and sour chicken. The ingredients differ slightly too.

Duck sauce does contain very small amounts of magnesium and calcium as well as some vitamin A and vitamin E. That said, duck sauce is a high sugar condiment, so people with diabetes and those watching their sugar intake may want to limit their use of duck sauce.

Plum sauce is a sweet and sour sauce that can be paired with savory Cantonese dishes, including roast duck. It's typically made with sweet plums — another stone fruit — ginger, garlic, chilis and a hefty dose of vinegar.

And that's not all Americans too. Duck sauce, the orange apricot sickly stuff in packets, is an American invention, an American product and is unknown outside of the USA. Chinese-American food is its own cuisine, and like all cuisine, there's regional differences.

“Duck sauce” is really plum sauce. It is made with plums and is sweet with a tangy flavor. In Chinese, this sauce is named “sour plum sauce”. When Cantonese serve their roast duck, the plum sauce is the usual accompaniment for it enhances the flavor.

Duck sauce contains 39 calories per 16 g serving. This serving contains 0 g of fat, 0.1 g of protein and 9.7 g of carbohydrate. The latter is 4.9 g sugar and 0.1 g of dietary fiber, the rest is complex carbohydrate. Duck sauce contains 0 g of saturated fat and 0 mg of cholesterol per serving.

What goes well with duck sauce? ›

Duck sauce goes well with, spring rolls or egg rolls, it goes well with chicken or salmon, it can go with pork, and possibly unsurprisingly it goes pretty well with some crispy duck.

A New York Times article from October 12, 1981, talks about New-York-based Saucy Susan Products, purveyor of a popular specialty duck sauce made with apricot and peaches, and its desire to tap into a larger market.

Plum Sauce, sometimes called "Duck Sauce," is a sweet and tangy condiment with the lively flavors of plums and ginger. It's often served with fried wontons and other appetizers.

A majority of Chinese in Hong Kong are Cantonese in addition to sizable numbers of Hakka, Teochew and Shanghainese peoples, and home dishes are Cantonese with occasional mixes of the other three types of cuisines.

Cantonese sauce is a sweet and tangy sauce with a reddish brown color. Its predominant flavors are of salt, garlic and citrus. It is typically made with soy sauce, sugar, rice vinegar and cornstarch, with a slightly viscous texture. It is popular in Chinese cuisines and goes well with meat and vegetable dishes.

Plum Sauce, sometimes called "Duck Sauce," is a sweet and tangy condiment with the lively flavors of plums and ginger. It's often served with fried wontons and other appetizers.