Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe

I got the recipe for the sweet and sour sauce from a Filipino celebrity, Tuesday Vargas (Tuesday_V). I follow her Instagram and she post her home cooked recipes all the time. She's always cooking up a storm and her food looks really good. This taste taste so legit, it will knock your socks off! You can use this sauce with any meat. I used it with chicken because that's what I had on hand.

Ingredients:

• 2 of tomato paste
• 2 tbsp of vegetable oil
• chopped onion
• choped garlic
• chopped ginger (you can use the ginger puree from the grocery store)
• 1/2 cup vinegar (use can use white, red wine or rice wine)
• juice of half a lemon
• 2 tbsp sugar
• chopped carrots
• bell peppers
• a medium can of pineapple chunks and little bit of it's juice.

1. In a sauce pan, heat the oil and sautee onions, garlic and ginger until fragrant.
2. Add 1/2 cup of vinegar, lemon juice, 2 tbsp on tomato paste and 2tbsp of sugar and season with salt and pepper. 
3. Mix and let it simmer for a few minutes.
4. Add pineapple chunks and it's juice
5. Add carrots and bell peppers.
6. Cover and let the carrots and bell peppers cook for a few minutes.
7. Pour on any cooked meat.
8. Enjoy!