Dark sauce for beef with broccoli too sweet

Question

I made a recipe for beef with broccoli that turned out fantastic. However- it is way too sweet for my family to eat much at once. Next time I will half the brown sugar, but is there a way to make our leftovers less sweet so we can not waste?

Answer 1

Typical recipes I can find for beef and broccoli in a dark sauce with sugar also include soy sauce and usually oyster sauce.

I'd make a batch of similar sauce omitting the sugar entirely. If your recipe used water or stock as well, you can use less or even none. Then I'd try to remove some of the existing sauce, before adding the unsweetened one, mixing well, and reheating.

If that's still too sweet, a little extra soy sauce might be worth a try, but better might be to spice it up with chilli flakes, or extra of any spices your recipe calls for, perhaps avoiding any you might associate with sweet dishes.

It's possible you used a sweeter (rice) wine than the recipe expected. A few drops of rice vinegar or white wine vinegar would help there, but do be sparing until you taste it.