Sweet Onion Sauce

As a family of four, living on one income, we try to live within our means and look for opportunities to save money. 

 To cut cost on food, we mealplan, take advantage of sales, stick to our budget, and limit fastfood/eating out to only once a month. 

 So I try different ways to make "fastfood" at home. 
Today's experiment = Subway's BLT

 We made our BLT's with turkey bacon (because it's cheaper than regular bacon), homemade subway bread, lettuce and tomatoes, mayo, cheese, and sweet onion sauce. We did have some bakes sweet potato fries on the side but I wasn't crazy about how they turned out.

 Aljay and I always get Subway's sweet onion sauce on any sub we order so I thought I'd give it a try and make our Subway night even more special. As if baking the bread from scratch wasn't already a special event in itself. My family knows I'm not a baker. 

 After reading several different recipes I used what I had at home and was pleasantly surprised with the delicious copycat outcome. 


 Sweet Onion Sauce

 1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
2 1/2 T mustard
2 T soy sauce
6 T white vinegar
1/4 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp pepper
2 cloves minced garlic
1/2 an onion chopped
1 T cornstarch 

 In a small pot, on medium heat, add the first 7 listed ingredients and whisk away until the sugar is dissolved.

 Place the garlic and onion in a blender and blend til it's liquefied. Add to the pot.

 *If you don't have a blender or food processor or whatnot then just chop the garlic and onion into really really small parts OR you can use a garlic press or grate the onion/garlic into the pot.

 Mix the cornstarch with a little bit of water and add to the pot. 

 *Cornstarch mixes better in cold/cool water. Adding it straight to the hot sauce may result in little cornstarch pebbles. 

 Bring to a boil and then allow to cool. Make sure to whisk/stir. 
Store in the fridge. 

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