Stir-fry sauce recipes please

[JimmyMcNulty]

I tend to buy ready-made jars of things like hoi-sin, or sweet and sour, would like to make one instead. For a chickeny/vegetably/noodly type of affair.

Have to go out now but will check back later.
Thanks!

Pretty please...

The only ready-made jar I ever use is chilli broad bean paste. Makes almost anything palatable!

Homemade usually a combination of some of category A and some of category B:

Category A:
garlic
ginger
spring onion
dried mushrooms (reconstituted, of course)
dried chilli

Category B:
dark soya sauce
light soya sauce
rice wine
fish sauce
white pepper
salt
black pepper

In fact, a chicken/vegetable/fat noodles affair with all of the above (especially LOTS of white pepper) minus fish sauce but plus some oyster sauce is a definite winner, even for someone (ie me) who doesn't like noodles.

Ah that's great, thanks slng!

i put ginger/garlic and 5-spice powder in at start (ginger in syrup is the best cos it's sweet) then once things are mostly cooked, noodles added etc i add soy sauce/oyster sauce/veg stock/sherry (whatever combo i have/fancy) plus a little water and cornflour to thicken. when the wok's very hot you have to be careful to stir quickly as you're adding the cornflour (or dilute it a fair bit) or it can go lumpy.