photo of simple stir fry sauce recipe — This **Simple Stir Fry Sauce Recipe** is ready in 5 minutes and loaded with incredible flavours! Just mix everything up and use it in stir fries, to top over proteins, or mix it in rice or noodles!

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The Best Stir Fry Sauce Recipe!

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Why You Need To Make Your Own Stir Fry Sauce!

Easy and fast to make: This stir fry sauce recipe is extremely quick and simple to make! All you need to do is gather your ingredients and mix! There are some optional additional steps if you would like, but in essence, this sauce is one of the easiest out there, and you can quite honestly make this whenever you would like!
This sauce is loaded with flavour: You’ll be obsessed with this Asian stir fry sauce! When you make this, you’ll notice the wonderful aroma from the ginger, garlic, and sesame oil. A little bit of this Asian stir fry sauce will really go a long way in enhancing your food.
Make-ahead friendly: You can make this when you’ve got a pocket of time and it’ll be ready for you in your fridge for whenever you need it! Read on to see how to properly store this stir fry sauce so it stays fresh as long as possible.
Plenty of uses: This stir fry sauce recipe is extremely versatile, and you’ll want to explore plenty of recipes using this sauce! Check out just a couple of ideas later on in this post!

Dietary Information For This Quick Stir Fry Sauce Recipe

This Simple Stir Fry Sauce recipe is…

Vegetarian and vegan
Can be gluten-free: See below on how to do this.
Can be low-carb: See below on how to do this.
Low in fat
Low in calories

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Ingredients For Multipurpose Stir Fry Sauce Recipe

Scroll to the bottom of this post for the FULL PRINTABLE recipe card or by pressing the “Jump to Recipe” button to see all ingredients and their quantities. The recipe card will also allow you to scale the recipe based on how many portions of sauce you want to make! By default, this recipe will yield about 12 small servings.

Soy sauce: You can use a low sodium soy sauce if you want.
Rice vinegar: You can use either seasoned or unseasoned rice vinegar. I’ve used seasoned rice vinegar, but if you’re using unseasoned rice vinegar, then you can add more sweetness and/or salt to taste in the final dish you’re preparing.
Maple syrup: Use your favourite type of maple syrup. I’m using dark maple syrup since it has lots of flavour.
Sesame oil: You can also toast your sesame oil if you would like, as I’ll mention later on in the variations portion of this post.
Red pepper flakes: A little bit to add heat to the sauce.
Ginger: Fresh ginger cloves, grated.
Garlic cloves: Mince fresh garlic cloves.
Fish sauce: Optional, but to add umami and savouriness to round out the sauce.
Corn starch: Optional to thicken the sauce.

How to Make Stir Fry Sauce From Scratch

Combine all the ingredients together besides the cornstarch.

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If using the sauce to create a gravy, combine 1/2 to 1 tsp of cornstarch with 2-3 Tbsp of cold water and whisk well. Add to the sauce and simmer for 1-2 minutes or until thickened.

Tips for The Perfect SImple Stir Fry Sauce

The sauce has components to hit the main flavours that make up a dish, saltiness from soy sauce, sourness from rice vinegar, sweetness from maple syrup, umami from fish sauce, or oyster sauce, heat from chilli flakes and aroma from the ginger and garlic. You can now try this sauce, and adjust and tweak any of these components to make it personable to your palette.
For a silky gravy-like finish, add the cornstarch slurry only if you’re cooking a saucier stir-fry or want to coat noodles or rice. Let the sauce simmer for 1–2 minutes after adding the slurry. It’ll thicken and bring the flavours together.
Be ready for when the craving hits! Make a bigger batch and store it in an airtight jar in the fridge for up to a week. Great for last-minute meals!
This sauce works beautifully as a marinade for tofu, chicken, beef, or shrimp.

How to Store Simple Stir Fry Sauce

All you need to do is transfer the sauce into a mason jar or in an airtight container and keep it in the fridge. Due to the garlic in here, I wouldn’t keep this sauce in the fridge for longer than 5 days.

Variations of Stir Fry Sauce Recipe

Gluten-free: Use a certified gluten-free soy sauce or substitute with coconut aminos or tamari.
Sweetener: Other delicious sweeteners for this stir fry sauce recipe would be honey or brown sugar. Keep in mind that if you use honey as a sweetener, this sauce recipe will no longer be vegan.
Flavour: You can toast the sesame oil with garlic and ginger to add depth to the sauce.
Thickness: If you want to use this sauce as a gravy, then you can make a corn starch slurry. Combine 1/2 to 1 tsp of cornstarch with 2-3 Tbsp of cold water and whisk well.
Keto: If you are opting out of thickening the sauce, then this stir fry sauce recipe is keto-friendly. However, if you do want to thicken the sauce, then you can skip the corn starch and instead use arrowroot powder or xantham gum. For the sweetness, you can use a keto-friendly sweetener to cut the carbs, such as monk fruit.
Spicier: Add more chilli flakes or add chilli garlic sauce.
Umami: I’ve added fish sauce to add umami to the sauce. Alternatively, you can use oyster sauce.

How to Use Stir Fry Sauce

As I mention in my free motivational guide to exploring your potential in the kitchen, Make Cooking Fun!, having a theme for the week can get you going to try out plenty of new recipes for lunch or dinner! With this multipurpose stir fry sauce on hand, you can explore lots of easy and satisfying Asian-style recipes, from main dishes to vegetable sides. Here are a few ideas to get you started:

Main Dishes

Tofu Noodle Stir Fry
Keto Egg Roll in a Bowl
Super Simple Chinese Egg Fried Rice
Better than Takeout Beef Fried Rice
30-Minute Shrimp Fried Rice
Proteins: Add this to flavour your pan-seared chicken breasts or chicken thighs, pork, steak, or tofu!
Fillings: I’ve been loving making sushi cones and spring rolls with rice paper, and this sauce has been super convenient to flavour my fillings for those! You can make chicken and veggie fillings or tofu and veggie fillings, and add the sauce at the end.

Sides

Noodles: This will be great in any noodles, such as udon, egg noodles, soba, or you could even make your own Silver Need Noodles!
Rice: Mix this in with some simple steamed white rice or even in sushi rice.
Vegetable stir fries: You can use this with cabbage, carrots, green beans, peas, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, onions, and peppers!

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Yield: 1 1/2 Cups

Author: Anadi

Simple Stir Fry Sauce Recipe

This Simple Stir Fry Sauce Recipe is ready in 5 minutes and loaded with incredible flavours! Just mix everything up and use it in stir fries, to top over proteins, or mix it in rice or noodles!

Prep time: 8 MinTotal time: 8 Min

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Ingredients

3 Tbsp (45 mL) soy sauce
1 Tbsp (15 mL) rice vinegar (or 1 1/2 Tbsp for a sharper sauce)
1 Tbsp (20 mL) maple syrup (or honey)
1 Tbsp (15 mL) sesame oil
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes, to taste
1–2 tsp fresh ginger, grated
1–2 garlic cloves, minced
splash of fish sauce (optional)
1/2 tsp corn starch slurry, for thickening (optional, made with corn starch and water)

Instructions

Combine all the ingredients together besides the cornstarch.
If using the sauce to create a gravy, combine 1/2 to 1 tsp of cornstarch with 2-3 Tbsp of cold water and whisk well. Add to the sauce and simmer for 1-2 minutes or until thickened.