This Healthy Stir Fry Sauce Recipe is low calorie, and can be made gluten-free and vegan.
You can use this easy stir fry sauce on veggie, chicken, beef, and tofu stir fry recipes! We’ve even included an easy stir fry recipe below to use this yummy homemade sauce in.

Along with the gluten-free and vegan modifications in making simple stir fry sauces. We’ve also included directions on making spicy, low sugar, and soy free stir fry sauces.
Plus this quick stir fry sauce takes just 5 minutes to whip up… and comes with storage directions for meal prepping.
This Healthy Stir Fry Sauce Recipe is just 51 calories, vegan, gluten-free, and takes only 5 minutes to make!
Healthy Stir Fry Sauce Recipe
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make homemade stir fry sauce easy.
From a shopping list, to a printable card. You’ll find a nutrition label, tips and tricks to cut sugar, make a soy free vegetable stir fry sauce, and so much more below.
To make these Chinese stir fry sauce recipes easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.
Read through them for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Ingredients for Stir Fry Sauce Recipes (shopping list!)
- How to Make Stir Fry Sauce
- Healthy Stir Fry Sauce Recipe (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Homemade Stir Fry Sauce
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin these healthy stir fry sauces to Pinterest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list and spicy, gluten-free, vegan, low sugar and soy free modifications for Asian stir fry sauces…
Ingredients for Stir Fry Sauce Recipes
This basic sauce for stir fry can easily be modified to meet your own dietary needs!
Check out these tips to easily change the basic stir fry sauce ingredients…
Customize this Easy Stir Fry Sauce Recipe:
- Make it Spicy – add a teaspoon of Chili Garlic Sauce to the veggie stir fry sauce to spice things up a bit.
- Gluten-Free Swaps – use Tamari Gluten-Free Say Sauce to make Asian sauce recipes gluten-free.
- Make it Vegan – use maple syrup in place of honey.
- Cut the Sugar – swap out the sugar for All-Natural Brown Sugar Substitute and the honey or maple syrup with Keto Maple Syrup
- Make it Soy Free – use Less Sodium NoSoy (soy-free) Sauce in place of soy sauce.

Shopping List for Simple Stir Fry Sauce:
- Low-sodium soy sauce or gluten free Tamari
- Maple syrup or honey
- Light brown sugar
- Rice vinegar
- Toasted sesame oil
- Fresh ginger
- Garlic
- Cornstarch
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of soy stir fry sauce you want to make. It will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for this easy stir fry sauce recipe can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make a good stir fry sauce homemade…
How to Make Stir Fry Sauce
This homemade stir fry sauce is easy to make and use.
In this section we will share the directions on making simple stir fry sauces, and recipe cards for using the healthy stir fry sauce recipe.
How to Make a Stir Fry Sauce:
- To a medium bowl combine all the ingredients.
- Mix well to combine, whisking to break up any cornstarch lumps.
- Use in your favorite stir fry recipes, and store in an air tight container for up to a week in the fridge.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
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Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best stir fry sauce recipe…
Healthy Stir Fry Sauce Recipe
This low calorie stir fry sauce is easy to make! And thanks to the modifications (see above) you can make it low sugar, soy-free, vegan, gluten-free, and even spicy!
Use this homemade stir fry sauce in marinades, or to finish off a dish. It goes great with chicken and steak, as well as tofu and veggies.

The BEST Stir Fry Sauce (Vegan & Gluten-Free)
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce or gluten free Tamari
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 1/2 tablespoon maple syrup or honey
- 1 tablespoon packed light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- 2 teaspoons fresh ginger grated or minced
- 2 cloves of garlic grated or minced
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
Instructions
- To a medium bowl combine all the ingredients.
- Mix well to combine, whisking to break up any cornstarch lumps.
- Use in your favorite stir fry recipes, and store in an air tight container for up to a week in the fridge.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Homemade Stir Fry Sauce
