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Sweet Sauce for Spring Rolls

A sweet sauce made with sugar, soy sauce, broth, corn starch, garlic, and salt, thickened and served with spring rolls.

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Why it works: Clove and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,368 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Sweet Sauce for Spring Rolls

Time1 minute

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Combine sugar, soy sauce, and broth.

  2. Bring to a boil.

  3. Add corn starch mixed smoothly with the cold water, and stir until the mixture thickens.

  4. Simmer, stirring for 1 minute.

  5. Stir in garlic.

Serve

  1. Serve at any temperature.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

517Calories
14 gProtein
1 gFat
110 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Corn + clovetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together712 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Corn + garlictop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,856 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sugar + corntop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,168 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Corn starch
Thickens the sauce as it gelatinizes in the hot liquid, giving it body.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the salty soy sauce.
Soy sauce
Provides the salty, savoury base flavour of the sauce.

The step that matters

Add the cornstarch slurry to the boiling liquid. Cornstarch must be mixed smoothly with cold water first, or it clumps. Stirring while it heats lets the starch granules swell and gelatinize evenly, so the sauce thickens smoothly rather than becoming lumpy.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, sauce, corn, garlic):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Jalapenofits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, sauce, corn, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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