Asian Sauces

Teriyaki sauce

Ingredients

• soy sauce | 250ml
• sake | 200ml
• mirin | 200ml
• sugar | 60g

Steps

In a pot, put the sugar, the sake, the mirin and the soy sauce.
Place it under medium heat and stir for a few minutes until the sugar dissolves
but make sure to not boil it.
Place it in a jar/bottle.

Notes

• if no sake, use water and white wine.
• add some minced ginger and garlic for some extra taste.
• sugar is 60g minimun, you might want to use more.

Peanut sauce

Ingredients

• peanut butter | 80g
• garlic | 2 cloves
• honey | 2 table spoons
• soy sauce | 2 table spoons
• rice vinegar | 2 table spoons
• toasted sesame oil | 1 table spoon
• water | 2 to 3 table spoons

Steps

Mince the garlic finely.
In a bowl, whish together the peanut butter, rice vinegar, soy sauce, honey, sesame oil and garlic.
Then add some water until getting a creamy but dipable sauce.

Sweat and Sour sauce

Ingredients

• white sugar | 32g
• garlic | 1 clove
• ginger | same as garlic
• red chili flakes | 1 table spoon
• white rice vinegar | 2 table spoons
• water | 32g
• tomato ketchup | 2 tea spoons
• cornstarch | 1 table spoon

Steps

In a pot, stir in all the ingredient except the cornstarch.
Mix up and cook at high fire until it starts boiling.

Prepare the cornstarch by adding to it a table spoon of water and mixing it until there is no more lumps.

Add the cornstarch mix to the pot and cook it until it thicken up (2 to 5 minutes).

Nu oc cham (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce)

Ingredients

• water | 6 Tsp
• sugar | 2 1/2 Tsp
• fish sauce | 2 Tsp
• lime juice | 1 1/2 Tsp
• garlic | 1 clove
• chili | 1

Steps

Slice the garlic and chili very thin.
Mix all ingredients together until the sugar has fully dissolved.

Simple dumpling sauce

Ingredients

• soy sauce | 4 Tsp

• rice vinegar | 1 Tsp

• sesame oil | 1 tsp

• red chili flakes | 1/2 tsp

  optional Add-Ins

• chili oil | 1 Tsp

• green onions | 1 Tsp

• garlic | 1 clove

• ginger | 1/2 tsp

• sugar | 1/2 tsp

Whisk all together in a bowl.

Steps

Slice the garlic and chili very thin.
Mix all ingredients together until the sugar has fully dissolved.

Asian Vinaigrette

Ingredients

• mirin | 10cl
• sesame oil | 10cl
• rice vinegar | 10cl
• soy sauce | 20cl
• sesame seeds | 2 spoons

Steps

Mix together all the liquids.
Heat up the sesame seeds in a pan.
Add them to the mix.