màu caramel

Nước Màu, or caramel sauce is added for color in a lot of Vietnamese recipes, and it’s easy to lớn make! All you need is sugar and water.

This recipe makes enough for my thịt kho recipe, but you can easily triple or quadruple this recipe to lớn store in the fridge. It’s currently tailored to lớn be more liquidy for Thịt Kho.

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If you want the dish you’re making to lớn be more concentrated and less liquid, simply halve the amount of water in this recipe.

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons sugar (enough for my thit kho recipe)
• 1/2 cup of warm water
• silicone spatula (I lượt thích that it’s non stick, but you can use anything, really. Just don’t scratch up your pan.)

How to lớn make the caramel sauce

1. Add sugar to lớn the pan on 50% heat. 50% is low enough to lớn control the process, but we will jump to lớn the caramel stage of sugar quickly, ví don’t take your eyes off the pan.

2. Constantly stir the sugar ví it heats evenly. It will begin to lớn clump.

3. Not dark enough yet! It will start to lớn take the color of caramel, but we want it a bit darker. For Thịt Heo Kho (Vietnamese Braised Pork with Egg), we are adding this to lớn a pot of about 1-2 quarts of water ví the color will be diluted.

If you are using an electric stove lượt thích mạ, you can lift the pan off the heat to lớn slow down the cooking process and continue to lớn stir until it reaches the desired darkness. Otherwise, just turn your heat down towards the over.

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4. When it gets darker than vãn caramel and just starts to lớn smoke, you know it’s close to lớn being done. Add the warm water to lớn the sugar to lớn halt the cooking process and stir until the sugar dissolves.

5. If you’re cooking a recipe you can add the caramel sauce to lớn it right away, but if you want to lớn make extra and reserve in the fridge, let it cool before transferring.

How the caramel sauce looks after fully dissolved and cooled down.

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What is caramel cooking sauce?

Caramel cooking sauce is a rich and thick sauce that you can add to lớn dishes, lượt thích thịt kho, as base and adds a nice brown coloring to lớn stewed dishes.

Why is my caramel sauce bitter?

After adding your sugar over a heated pan, carefully watch over and occasionally stir your sauce. When you overcook the sugar, it can burn and give you a bitter caramel sauce.

What should caramel look like?

You should cook the sugar down to lớn a darker caramel color. When it starts to lớn smoke a bit, you can add the warm water and stir. It should be a dark copper color.

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