This stir fry sauce is so easy to make! All you need is just 3 ingredients and the flavor is so much better than any store bought stir fry sauce!

Why this is the best easy stir fry sauce

The key to the best ever stir fry is in the sauce recipe. I have tried endless store bought sauces, and none of them ever tasted good enough to get that takeout taste that I was craving.

• Only three ingredients: all you need for bold flavor is soy sauce, sesame oil, and corn starch
• Highly Concentrated: a little bit of this sauce goes a long way.
• Pairs well with any kind of stir fry: Stir fry veggies, ramen noodles, chicken, tofu, pork, you name it. This sauce pairs beautifully with any kind of stir fry recipe.

How do you make stir fry sauce from scratch?

1. Add the corn starch, sesame oil, and soy sauce to a mason jar.
2. Close the lid, and shake to combine

This sauce does not mess around. It is bold, so flavorful, and a little bit goes a long way. If you make the whole batch, it will be enough to flavor 6 – 8 generous servings of food.

What is stir fry sauce used for?

You can use stir fry sauce for just about anything, but commonly used best vegetables for stir fry include

• Mushrooms
• Carrots
• Sugar snap peas
• Broccoli
• White or yellow onion
• Bell peppers, any color
• Green onion
• Water chestnuts
• Baby corn

What should I put in my stir fry?

• Vegetables: our go to vegetables include onion, garlic, ginger, brococli, mushrooms and bell pepper
• Protein: beef, chicken, tofu, chickpeas, tempeh
• Noodles or rice: white rice, brown rice, ramen noodles, brown rice noodles, pad thai noodles

Stir Fry Sauce Tips

• Make the sauce first: Prepping this ahead makes it easier to add as you need it when making your stir fry. You can either cook your ingredients in this sauce, or add it at the end of cook time.
• Add a little bit at a time: If you are unsure of how much sauce to use, I recommend cooking your ingredients first in sesame oil, then adding this sauce to taste in the last 3-5 minutes of cook time to taste.

These are not a part of the sauce, but they are part of the full recipe that you will make. I have found this to be the best way to bring out all of those flavors and I highly recommend doing this.

If you skip this step and tell me that the recipe is bland, it is because you did not add the garlic and ginger!

How to thicken stir fry sauce

There is no need to cook out a raw flour flavor like you would when cooking with a roux. Most sauce recipes use a corn starch slurry to thicken them.

Instead of that, we are simply mixing it with the other ingredients and once well shaken it will thicken the same way.

I have tested this easy recipe time and time again and it is always incredibly delicious.

“OMG Joy! I have been searching for the true stir fry sauce” for everything “ and this is it! Made shrimp broccoli and mushroom stir fry tonight and and I’m still licking up the sauce from the pan!”

“This recipe seemed to be too easy, but it works better than more complicated recipes. This will be my go to.“

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