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Tangy Tomato Sauce for Vegetables and Noodles

Tarla Dalal
06 December, 2024


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Made easily with tomato ketchup thickened with cornflour and boosted with tongue-tickling ingredients like vinegar, soy sauce and ginger-garlic paste, this handy recipe gives your stir-fries and noodles a tangy and pungent taste, which is characteristic of Oriental cooking.
You can also prepare your noodles using other sauces like the Schezuan Sauce and Spicy Peanut Sauce .
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Preparation Time
5 Mins
Cooking Time
7 Mins
Total Time
12 Mins
Makes
1 cup
Ingredients
Main Ingredients
1/2 cup tomato ketchup
1 tsp oil
1 tsp ginger-garlic (adrak-lehsun) paste
2 tsp cornflour
2 tsp soy sauce
2 tsp vinegar
salt to taste
Method
- Combine the cornflour and ½ cup of water in a deep bowl, mix well and keep aside.
- Heat the oil in a broad non-stick pan, add the ginger and garlic paste and sauté on a medium flame for few seconds.
- Add all the remaining ingredients along with cornflour –water mixture, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 6 minutes, while stirring continuously or till the sauce thickens.
- Use immediately or store it in an air – tight container and use as required.
Tangy Tomato Sauce for Vegetables and Noodles recipe with step by step photos
Nutrient values (Abbrv)per plate
Energy | 19 cal |
Protein | 1.2 g |
Carbohydrates | 3.8 g |
Fiber | 0.1 g |
Fat | 0.4 g |
Cholesterol | 0 mg |
Sodium | 145.8 mg |
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Shital
March 13, 2025, midnight
What a nice tangy sauce ! Very handy and used it for making my stir fry. It gave a nice oriental and exotic flavor. Next time I am planning to use it while making my noodles or as a gravy with mixed veggies to eat with my hot steaming fried rice.