Looking for Chinese food recipe help

I used to get a take-out dish called "revolution diet" which, if I remember correctly, included broccoli, mung bean sprouts, snow peas, and tofu. I think it was steamed but I'm not sure. Definitely not oily or stir fried. It came with a combination of a ginger-soy sauce and some kind of peanut or sesame sauce.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Would you have any specifics on how to put this together (the sauces in particular)?

thanks. -jf-

Was the ginger-soy sauce thick, or thin like regular soy with little bits of stuff floating in it?  If it was the second, you may try a potsticker sauce recipe. 

Here is a pretty good sauce

1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce

1 tbsp rice vinegar

1 tbsp chili-garlic sauce

1/2 tsp finely grated ginger root

Finely chopped green onion for garnish


For peanut sauces, I like to do something similar, only instead of chili sauce and ginger, whisk in some crushed garlic and a dab of diet peanut butter.

The soy was thin sauce with bits floating in it. I would call it the same sauce you get with the "peking ravioli" (pork dumplings).

The peanut sauce is the same thing I tend to find with the sesame dumplings...at least in the Boston area.

Your recipe looks like it might be the right thing. Thanks for the reply.

If you want a really flavorful vinegar to use for chinese food sauces, try buying some unseasoned rice wine vinegar and putting some ginger root slices, a clove of garlic, and a couple of red pepper flakes in the bottle.  The longer it sits the better it gets.