{"id":50243,"date":"2025-10-31T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/?p=50243"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:08:38","slug":"easy-sweet-and-sour-sauce-no-refined-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/?p=50243","title":{"rendered":"Easy Sweet and Sour Sauce (No Refined Sugar)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quick and easy homemade sweet and sour sauce naturally sweetened with dates! Perfect for a healthy version of the classic Chinese take out or to use in stir fries, rice bowls, pizza and more. <br><br>Ingredients<br>*1\/2 cup pineapple juice (125g \/\/ preferably fresh to keep it refined sugar free)<br>*2 garlic cloves, minced (6g)<br>*1 tsp minced ginger (5g)<br>*1\/2 tsp onion powder, optional<br>*1 tbsp soy sauce (15g \/\/ tamari for gluten free)<br>*4 soft dates (60g \/\/ or 3 tbsp coconut sugar)<br>*3\u20134 tbsp rice vinegar (45-60g \/\/ depending on how vinegar-y you like it)<br>*1\/4 cup sugar free ketchup (60g)<br>*1\/2 tsp chili flakes, optional<br>*1 tbsp corn starch + 2 tbsp water<br><br>Instructions<br>*Blend all the ingredients except the chili flakes. <br>*Add the corn starch and water to a bowl and stir until combined. <br>*Pour the blended sauce into a sauce pan and add in chili flakes. *Bring to a boil over medium high heat and then while stirring, pour in the slurry. <br>*Turn the heat down to a low and continue stirring until sauce thickens (2-3 minutes).<br>*Remove from heat and let it cool down before using or transferring into a air tight jar. <br><br>Notes<br>Helpful Equipment: Sauce pan, heat safe spatula or wooden spoon.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.okonomikitchen.com\/easy-sweet-and-sour-sauce\/print\/9414\/\">https:\/\/www.okonomikitchen.com\/easy-sweet-and-sour-sauce\/print\/9414\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick and easy homemade sweet and sour sauce naturally sweetened with dates! Perfect for a healthy version of the classic Chinese take out or to use in stir fries, rice bowls, pizza and more. Ingredients*1\/2 cup pineapple juice (125g \/\/ preferably fresh to keep it refined sugar free)*2 garlic cloves, minced (6g)*1 tsp minced ginger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/?p=50243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Easy Sweet and Sour Sauce (No Refined Sugar)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50244,"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50243\/revisions\/50244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}