Homemade Orange Sauce Recipe (aka Duck Sauce) (2024)

Next time you want a delicious dipping sauce for egg rolls, wings or ribs rather than stopping in the condiments aisle for a jar of ready made orange sauce aka duck sauce (with ingredients you don’t know and even if you did, can’t pronounce,) instead pop over to where they keep the jams and jellies and pick up a jar of apricot or peach preserves to make this quick and easy homemade Orange Sauce.

We don’t eat a lot of jams and jellies so it’s not something I usually can for ourselves, but if you happen to have your own homemade apricot or peach jam, I quite imagine this would taste even better.

If apricots or peaches aren’t to your liking, you can substitute plum or pineapple preserves. For this recipe I bought organic apricot preserves.

Whichever of those you choose, it’s going to be sooo good!

Much better than store bought and leaps and bounds tastier than those little packets of sauce that come with take out. I used to save those packets, but not anymore.

I must confess that until I decided to make homemade Orange Sauce, aka Duck Sauce, I’d always assumed it was made with oranges. But it turns out it’s called Orange Sauce because of the color of the sauce rather than the ingredients. At least in most of the recipes that I found when I started searching online, oranges were not included.

However, when I was experimenting to come up with a duck sauce recipe that would suit our family’s tastes, the first batch I made tasted okay but was lacking something.

I just happened to have some organic oranges in the fridge, so I added the zest and juice from one orange. That added just the right bit of extra zip to the sauce. And it satisfied my thought that orange sauce should have at least some orange in it. 🙂

*Quick note: If at all possible, please use organic oranges. Oranges are one of the most sprayed crops and since the zest is being used as well as the juice, organic is the healthiest way to go.

You can use a micro-plane to get the zest off or use a handy little zesting toollike I’ve used below.

The micro-plane will give you a very fine zest, while the zesting tool will create longer strips of orange zest.

Homemade Orange Sauce Recipe

Ingredients:

• ½ c organic apricot preserves
• Juice of one medium organic orange (approximately 3 tbsp)
• Zest of one orange (approximately 1 tbsp)
• 2 tsp rice vinegar
• ½ tsp gluten free Tamari (can substitute soya sauce)
• 1 tsp minced garlic
• 1 tsp fresh minced ginger
• ¼ tsp red pepper flakes
• ¼ tsp pink Himalayan salt (or sea salt)
• Optional: 1/8 tsp cayenne powder (if you like it a little more spicy)

Yield: Approximately¾ cup of Orange Sauce

Add all the ingredients to a small sauce pan.

Stir to combine and cook over medium heat until the mixture comes to a boil.

Remove from the heat and pour into a serving bowl. The sauce will thicken as it cools.

Allow the sauce to cool completely.

Serve with homemade egg rolls, wings or ribs.

It’s also delicious as a sauce to serve over chicken, pork or fish.

In the photo below, I’ve spooned it over a roasted chicken leg that’s been cut in half.

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