reduced sauces

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fishshark
fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
in Food and Nutrition
how do you count reduced sauces? For instance im making a sweet chili sauce. Its a cup of vinegar a cup of sugar and some other stuff. The sauce reduces to about half to thicken and become syrupy...How would you go about judging calories and serving amounts.

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  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 9,979 Member
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    It has all the calories of the stuff you put in it. Use the recipe builder, add all the ingredients, weigh the reduced sauce. (All that's disappearing when you reduce it is water, perhaps some of the alcohol if it contains any, but there's no way to know how much, maybe some esters...) You can enter the weight of the total recipe in grams as the number of servings, e.g., if the finished (preferably cooled) sauce weighs 125 grams, enter 125 servings in the recipe builder. Then whenever you add it to your food, weigh how much you use in grams, and enter that as the number of servings.
  • fishshark
    fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
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    thats what ive been doing just wanted to make sure it was right! thank you!

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