General Tso's Sauce

Name: General Tso's Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 1¾ cups (400 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 1/2 cup (120 ml) Oyster Sauce; 1 Tbsp (15 ml) Hoisin; 1 Tbsp (15 ml) Chili Garlic; 1/2 cup (100 g) Sugar; 6 Tbsp white vinegar (90 ml) White Wine Vinegar; 2 Tbsp (30 ml) Soy Sauce; 1/3 cup + cornstarch slurry water (95 ml) Water; 1 Tbsp (8 g) Cornstarch; remaining minced from recipe (~1 tsp) (5 g) Ginger; remaining chopped (~1 tsp) (3 g) Garlic

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Jet Tila recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Jet Tila.

GLAZE · FRIED CHICKEN

In the published recipe, this is the glaze for General Tso's chicken.

Jet Tila's General Tso's sauce for fried chicken.

On the jar

GINGER-SOY

Method: stove
Yield: about 1¾ cups
Ingredients: 10

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Oyster Sauce 120 mlHoisin 15 mlChili Garlic 15 mlWhite Wine Vinegar 90 mlSoy Sauce 30 mlWater 95 ml

Ingredients

Oyster Sauce1/2 cup (120 ml)
Hoisin1 Tbsp (15 ml)
Chili Garlic1 Tbsp (15 ml)
Sugar1/2 cup (100 g)
White Wine Vinegar6 Tbsp white vinegar (90 ml)
Soy Sauce2 Tbsp (30 ml)
Water1/3 cup + cornstarch slurry water (95 ml)
Cornstarch1 Tbsp (8 g)
Gingerremaining minced from recipe (~1 tsp) (5 g)
Garlicremaining chopped (~1 tsp) (3 g)

Method

This sauce is cooked on the stove. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Cook ingredients gently according to the published technique, adapted here as pantry quantities only.
Finish off heat; adjust seasoning.

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Provenance

Thai–Chinese-American chef and Food Network host based in Los Angeles; James Beard Cookbook Award finalist lineage. Family restaurant roots and published Thai technique books.

Adapted from a Jet Tila recipe (Food Network / Jet Tila).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Food Network / Jet Tila (published as “General Tso's Sauce”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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