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Szechuan Sauce: What is it & How to Make it

Spice up your day - by Lottie Dalziel
  • 30 Jul 2019
Szechuan Sauce: What is it & How to Make it

Q: What is Szechuan Sauce?

McDonald’s infamous Szechuan sauce was a limited-edition addition to their menu in 1998 before the Simpsons characters Rick and Morty “forced” a comeback. It is a spicy yet sweet sauce that is the perfect accompaniment to chicken nuggets and fried fish. 

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Szechuan is a province in south-west China. Their cuisine is known for being rich, bold and spicy largely due to their extensive use of Szechuan peppers in almost anything. 

Szechuan sauce was brought into the limelight for a limited time in 1998 to promote the Disney movie Mulan. The Simpsons famously featured the sauce in one of their episodes which encouraged McDonald’s to bring back the sauce for a one day event which saw 20 million packets sold out in a matter of hours. The story goes that thousands of fans flocked to stores which needed urgent police back-up to control attendees. But hey, skip the lines and make your own sauce at home.

When you make your own Szechuan sauce you can tailor the flavour to the heat you can handle but expect both a sweet and savoury flavour with a peppery kick. 

A reddit user provided the following “copycat” sauce recipe.

How to make Szechuan sauce

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What you’ll need

  • 6 garlic cloves, minced
  • 4 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon of soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons plum sake
  • 3 ½ tablespoons of sriracha sauce
  • 2 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon ginger, minced
  • Dried chilli flakes to taste

How to do it

  1. In a saucepan cook garlic over medium heat and allow to become fragrant. 
  2. Add vinegar, soy sauce and plum sake and reduce the heat. 
  3. Once reduced add sugar, sriracha, ginger and chilli to taste. 

You can use Szechuan sauce with pretty much anything! It is the perfect addition to chicken, tacos and of course chicken nuggets! Here are a couple of recipes we’d include it in.

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Lottie Dalziel
Lottie Dalziel
Lottie Dalziel, is a 4AM riser and coffee-addict who lives and breathes all things food. When she isn't reading up on the latest trends in sustainability or discovering ways to upcycle almost anything, you can find her by the beach, cooking up a storm or adding to her abundant (some would say out of control) plant collection.

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