Where's the sauce?

last year

So I buy one of those frozen Asian dinners, Beef & Broccoli w/rice, in a bag. I don't try this often because I'm usually disappointed but I wanted something quick and easy for tonight's supper. A few minutes ago I open the bag to retrieve "the sauce packet" in order "thaw under running water" before putting it into the skillet before the veggies. Hey - no sauce packet! grrrr. I poured the contents of the bag unto a dinner plate in order to dig through it for the packet - nada.

This dinner was on special for $6.99 reduced from $8.99. Yeah, probably because of - no packet. Anyway I called the store and they basically gave me the run around until finally someone answered a phone and said just bring it in and they'll give me a new one. Well, it's on a plate I said. She huffed, then said just bring in the receipt and they'll reimburse me. Okay, I will - tomorrow.

In the meantime, I put the veggie and rice contents into a skillet, added a little bit of water and some stir-fry sauce. Thinking maybe it needs some thickening, I added a tablespoon of cornstarch. lol It's cooking now, not sure how it's going to taste. Just venting, but what you would have added? Sure didn't want to toss it.

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No suggestion to offer regarding the sauce - sorry.

As I read your story, I thought that you'd taken some time to write it, after having eaten, and was asking for suggestions for future use.

Not intending to be sauce-y, but unless you had an appointment or something needing to be done soon, supposing you'd thought to write the story before eating the deficient dinner, and if too hungry to wait, snack on a sandwich or some ready-made soup or stew from the fridge, and use some of the suggestions from the ready-made helpers offered here to choose an appealing one to enhance the deficient dinner today?

ole joyfuelled - just waking, not near dinnertime

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schoolhouse_gwagain
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last year
Well, I ate one serving, not so great as you can imagine. So I picked out the beef from what was left in the skillet then tossed the rest. Thought about freezing it, but I know I would never eat it. What a waste of food. But the beef was actually pretty good.

As a treat, I also bought potato chips and French onion dip today to have as I watched the season premier of Outlander. Now after the supper, even the thought of French onion dip makes my stomach a little queasy. :(
Jupidupi
last year
When I have a problem with a defective product, I write directly to the company. I've gotten free products, free coupons, even a tee shirt. You are doing the manufacturer a favor by letting them know there's a problem.
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Olychick
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I probably would have looked at the ingredients on the package to try to replicate the sauce, but I'll be your stir fry sauce was close. Ginger, soy sauce maybe? A couple cloves of garlic?
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bpath
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I always have a bottle of Kikkoman’s low-sodium soy sauce, I probably would have gone with that if I were doing a boil-in-bag easy dinner. Or maybe look at my recipes and turn it into a teryaki, but since clearly I’d be planning easy, soy sauce it is.
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arcy_gw
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Stir fry sauce sounds like a perfect substitute. I make my own sweet and sour often so have pineapple juice on hand. That and brown sugar/vinegar/soy sauce makes a decent one. If you like orange chicken orange juice subs nicely...teriyaki is also pretty easy to whip together..it all depends on what you were craving.....
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morz8 - Washington Coast
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For something quick, I"ll occasionally fix a package of Trader Joe's Broccoli Beef. I make my own rice for a side. The package in my freezer reads the sauce contains: sugar, water, red chili garlic puree ( chili peppers, vinegar, garlic, salt, soy sauce, water and wheat) also ginger puree, red and cayenne peppers - more but you get the idea.

We like spicy food and eat hispanic a lot but this sauce is HOT. Spicy throat burning hot. I mix half the sauce packet with half a cup beef broth and sub that in place of the full portion sauce provided.
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foodonastump
last year
Stir fry sauce sounds like a good choice, though I’m only imagining what it would taste like. Based on what I have on hand I might come up with some mix of soy, ginger, sherry, and sriracha. Unless I were lazy and hungry, in which case straight sriracha would do just fine.
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colleenoz
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For beef and broccoli I’d probably use a mixture of hoi sin sauce and oyster sauce, both of which live in my fridge.
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schoolhouse_gwagain
Original Author
last year
I can barely think about it without going "yuck". Don't think I'll be eating stir-fry for a good while after this.

I'm taking the receipt in today to get my money back, but I'll turn right around and buy a pack of fine egg noodles for my broccoli cheese soup which I forgot to get yesterday.
Lars
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I would have made a sauce with ginger, garlic, soy sauce, red pepper chili paste in sesame oil, and some cornstarch in water. I keep ginger paste in a jar in my fridge for when I need to add a bit of ginger to a dish, but I also have ginger in the freezer.

We went to a "Thai" restaurant yesterday that was more like a Chinese restaurant, which is always a disappointment. I took most of my food home in a to-go box and will spice it the way I like it today. The dish was one of their daily specials (they had three of them), and it had a bunch of vegetables (carrot coins, tiny corn, mushrooms, etc) with shrimp and chicken in a very bland sauce. I had ordered medium spicy, but it had no spice in it whatsoever and was cold. I also ordered it with brown rice and got white rice instead, which is not a huge problem, but I felt like they had prepared this dish for someone else and just happened to have it sitting around.

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petalique
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Here is one easy recipe. You can also connect to a video.

➡️ https://www.recipetineats.com/chinese-beef-and-broccoli-extra-saucy-take-out-style/

I make mine differently, but easy yo look online.

BETTER, is Classic Takeout BEEF & BROCCOLI in 15 Minutes! Aaron is a very good chef 🩷

Turn on subtitles.

➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTL_rD1Cts
petalique
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OleJoyful — you are our sauce-y friend.

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