Fishball sauce recipe (street food style)

I have more recipes to post but I don’t have the spirit to write about all of them. Today however, after finally completing the right fishball sauce recipe that would be at par with those from the street and sidewalk fishball vendors, it’s like I have taken a berserk pill and I can’t let this day pass without being able to share this recipe for fishball sauce street food style.

I have tried so many times to replicate the fishball sauce being prepared by the multitudes of street vendors in the Philippines but, for some “mysterious” reasons, I just can’t do it right until today.

Fishball Sauce Recipe, Streetfood Style!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup water
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp cornstarch
• 1 tsp all purpose flour
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• finely chopped onion and garlic
• chopped siling labuyo (optional)

That’s right! No vinegar. I never thought this is the key to having the right combination of ingredients to make the right fishball sauce, kalye style.

Dissolve brown sugar, cornstarch, flour and soy sauce with water on a sauce pan. Bring to a simmer until the sauce thickens (you know how thick Manong Fishball‘s sauce is, right?). Transfer on a saucer or sauce jar and add finely chopped garlic, onion and siling labuyo (only you prefer sweet and spicy).

Note: You don’t need to subject the fishball sauce to polluted street air for one whole day. This is what separate street style fishball sauce from Eatlog.PH’s fishball sauce – our’s is more sanitary. It’s not the smog, the polluted air and all dirt that makes the sauce so sinfully yummy.

This recipe has moved from blogs to blogs (I had so many) and the most recent one is from HungryHusband.com which I also had to abandon because the domain no longer suits me. It has been one of my most searched and most commented food recipes so I’m re-posting it and made the original post URLs redirect here.

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