Chinese garlic sauce is a common sauce for seasoning. It can make a dish more delicious.
What is Chinese Garlic Sauce?
The main ingredients of Chinese garlic sauce are stir-fry garlic and vegetable oil. In China, many people make Chinese garlic sauce for cooking or serve with some food. Such as steamed scallops with garlic, grilled oysters and fried mushrooms with garlic.
The benefit of eating Chinese garlic sauce
1. Eat Chinese garlic sauce can detoxify, sterilize and kill parasites. It plays an important role in detoxification when eating raw fish, shrimp and crab.
2. Eat Chinese garlic sauce can prevent tooth decay, prevent cancer, increase appetite, and maintain the health of the body’s gastrointestinal tract.
3. Eat Chinese garlic sauce can promote menstruation, improve tracheal inflammation, enhance immune function, treat rheumatic diseases, regulate blood pressure and reduce blood viscosity.
How to store Chinese Garlic Sauce
Seal the garlic and store it in the refrigerator. It is best to serve it in one month. And it can be stored for 3-6 months depending on the storage.
Tips for making the Chinese garlic sauce
1. You should stir-fry garlic under low heat. Otherwise, uneven heat will easily lead to burnt.
2. Adding sugar in your Chinese garlic sauce can add flavor, and you can add chili according to your preference.
3. Seasoning with salt alone, adding soy sauce or oyster sauce will easily deteriorate the sauce.
Chinese Garlic Sauce Recipe
You’ll need:
1 bowl garlic, peeled
2 anises
1 Chinese cinnamon
2 bay leaves
1/2 onion, shredded
1 scallion, shredded
Vegetable oil
Salt
Sugar
Sesame oil
Chili (optional)
How to make Chinese Garlic Sauce
1. Wash and dry the garlic with kitchen paper. Then put it into the cooking machine and stir it well.
2. Shredded scallion and onion. Heat a wok with oil, add scallion, onion, Chinese cinnamon, anises and bay leaves in the wok. And stir-fry them until fragrant.
3. Remove Chinese cinnamon, anises and bay leaves from the wok, and continue to stir-fry the scallion and onion until golden. Turn the heat off.
4. Remove the scallion and onions from the wok, set aside until the oil cool down to warm. Add the garlic and heat under low heat.
5. Stir-fry the garlic until soft. Add the right amount of salt, sugar and sesame oil according to your preference. Stir-fry them evenly, and then transfer them in a container and sealed for storage in the refrigerator.
6. Serve it with a dish.
Chinese Garlic Sauce Stir-fry
Ingredients
- 1 bowl garlic peeled
- 2 anises
- 1 Chinese cinnamon
- 2 bay leaves
- 1/2 onion shredded
- 1 scallion shredded
- Vegetable oil
- Salt
- Sugar
- Sesame oil
- Chili optional
Instructions
- Wash and dry the garlic with kitchen paper. Then put it into the cooking machine and stir it well.
- Shredded scallion and onion. Heat a wok with oil, add scallion, onion, Chinese cinnamon, anises and bay leaves in the wok. And stir-fry them until fragrant.
- Remove Chinese cinnamon, anises and bay leaves from the wok, and continue to stir-fry the scallion and onion until golden. Turn the heat off.
- Remove the scallion and onions from the wok, set aside until the oil cool down to warm. Add the garlic and heat under low heat.
- Stir-fry the garlic until soft. Add the right amount of salt, sugar and sesame oil according to your preference. Stir-fry them evenly, and then transfer them in a container and sealed for storage in the refrigerator.
- Serve it with a dish.
Idell Thomas
Incredible recipe!! The sauce is truly out of this world!
Virginia Wright
Really enjoyed this! Can’t wait to try the sauce on rice noodles, thanks for another great recipe!
Joseph Hill
Absolutely loved the sauce, probably the best online recipe turns out!
Steve Rodriguez
I made this tonight and it came out just great. And this was AWESOME!! I so enjoy your recipes, Erica. They are vegan and so flavorful.