Chinese Barbecue Sauce – P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Recipe

The Best Barbecue Sauce

This Chinese Barbecue Sauce is based on P.F. Chang’s recipe which is used in several different menu items, including: Spare Ribs, Pork Medallion and their Barbecue Chicken Salad. I’ve taken the exact Restaurant size recipe and dumbed it down to a house hold portion. And when I said this recipe is “based” on the Corporate recipe, I mean, it’s more or less the exact same one, only I cut the sugar in half.

The Barbecue Sauce Breakdown

Chang’s makes 5 gallons of this sauce at a time and 2 1/2 gallons of it is sugar. That’s just ridiculous. Half of their recommended sugar amount still gets you a fantastic BBQ sauce. So rest assured, knowing now, that you have everything you need to know about the China Bistro’s Barbecue Sauce Recipe!

I’ve also got their Spare Rib Recipe and their Northern Style Short Ribs Ribs recipe already filmed and posted below. And if you’re interested in my Oven Baked Ribs, those are listed here as well.

CLICK HERE for Barbecue Spare Ribs
CLICK HERE for Northern Style Short Ribs
CLICK HERE for Oven Baked Ribs

Chinese Barbecue Sauce Ingredients:

1 qt Ketchup
1 cup Hoisin Sauce
1 cup Plum Sauce
2 cup Sugar
1/4 tsp Five Spice Powder
1/4 tsp Baking Soda

This recipe makes 2 quarts of Chinese Barbecue Sauce.

Red Sauce Wontons

Red Sauce Wonton Pic — Red Bowl with 5 steamed pork wontons, spicy red sauce, topped with chopped scallions and cilantro.

The Best Wontons Recipe

If you like Chinese Wontons, you’re going to love this Red Sauce Wontons recipe. It’s generally sweet and spicy but you can control exactly how much you want of each, easily. It’s true that this recipe was once on P.F. Chang’s menu. I’m not quite sure if it is anymore but I’ve broken down a restaurant size recipe and created this family size equivalent with medium heat. So feel free to adjust the Chili Oil, Chili Paste and sugar to your desired preference.

3 recipes similar to P.F. Chang’s: Wonton Soup, Pan Fried Potstickers and Shrimp Dumplings with sauce.

Recipes made with Wontons

You can turn this dish into a spicy wonton soup, if you prefer, and I tell you how to do that below the ingredients. If you’re looking for more of a traditional Wonton Soup recipe, however, CLICK HERE. You might also be interested in my Pot Stickers and my Shrimp dumplings recipe. They’re both amazing and I show you how to make a dipping sauce with the dumplings recipe.

Pot Stickers are also called Gyoza, which is seasoned and flavor ground pork, wrapped in a round wonton wrapper and shaped like a crescent moon, steamed, then pan fried. Shrimp Dumplings are very similar, only those wonton wrappers are square and are stuffed with seasoned and ground shrimp, instead, then steamed and pan fried. Oh, and did I mention the Dipping Sauce? Mmm, mm, mm!

How to make Spicy Szechwan Red Sauce Wontons video tutorial by PoorMansGourmet.

Red Sauce Wontons Ingredients:

Wontons
1 pkg Wonton Wrappers
1/2 lbs Ground Pork
1/4 tsp Powdered Ginger
1/4 tsp Garlic Powder
1 tsp Oyster Sauce, optional

Red Sauce
1 cup Soy Sauce
3 tbsp White Vinegar
1 tbsp Chili Oil
1 tbsp Chili Paste
1 tbsp Sesame Oil
1/4 cup Sugar
2 Garlic Cloves, chopped
1 tbsp Canola Oil

Garnish
2 Green Onions, chopped
1 Bunch Cilantro, chopped

Serve 5 Wontons with 2 oz of Sauce and Garnish with Green Onion and Cilantro.

Be sure to watch the short video tutorial and follow the instructions to make this wonderful Szechwan recipe, Red Sauce Wontons. Make it a soup by adding more wontons, to each bowl, and a ladle or two of hot Chicken Broth.

Lobster Sauce

The Best Lobster Sauce

If you’ve ever ordered Lobster Raviolis or pasta with a Lobster Sauce from an Italian Restaurant and they prepare it right, it truly is stunning. It can be prepared several different ways but it usually always has cream. You can even put roasted tomatoes in it if you’d like but I like it best prepared the way I show you in this video recipe. There’s also a nice touch of almond in the sauce that tastes real sweet thanks to the added Amaretto. You’ll swear you’ve died and gone to Italian Heaven.

Also, be sure to check out my Mussels Recipe down below and my Shrimp Scampi. Both dishes are a fantastic side dish or appetizer to compliment any pasta recipe. And if you’re interested in the Seafood Scissors I use to cut the Lobster Tails, CLICK HERE.

CLICK HERE for Mussels
CLICK HERE for Shrimp Scampi

Lobster Sauce Ingredients:

8 oz Cheese Raviolis or Pasta, cooked
2 Lobster Tails, cooked
2 oz unsalted butter
1 Garlic Clove, chopped
1 Green Onion, chopped
2 tbsp Fresh Parsly, chopped
1/2 tsp anchovy paste
3/4 cup Lobster Stock or Clam Juice, with Crab boil seasoning
2 ounces Amaretto or cognac
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 tbsp Lemon juice, freshly squeezed
2 tbsp of Parmesan Cheese

Be sure to watch the short video tutorial and I’ll show you exactly how to combine all of these ingredients and make an amazing Lobster Sauce.