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Teriyaki sauce at home

Homemade teriyaki sauce

A popular Asian sweet-and-salty sauce! Anyone who loves Japanese food — and teriyaki is a traditional Japanese sauce — probably keeps a bottle of this wonderful stuff on hand. But it's awfully tempting to find out how it tastes made from scratch at home. Let's give it a try.

Pirko Rita

Recipe author

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Soy sauce

150

White wine vinegar

Ground ginger

Garlic powder

Sugar (cane)

Potato starch

Honey

Water

Olive oil

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 5 % 3 g

Fats 5 % 3 g

Carbohydrates 89 % 50 g

138 kcal

GI: 69 / 0 / 31

Cooking method

Cooking time: 20 min

Step 1:

Gather all the ingredients for the teriyaki sauce ahead of time. Now take a heavy-bottomed skillet and set it over medium heat to warm up. Add the following ingredients to the skillet one after another: soy sauce, cane sugar, dried ginger, and dried garlic.
Step 2:

Next, add the wine vinegar, olive oil, and honey to what's already in the pan.
Step 3:

As it cooks, stir the sauce constantly with a wooden spatula, bringing it to a boil.
Step 4:

Take a small container or glass, pour in the water, and slowly whisk in the potato starch. Mix it well. Pour the starch water into the skillet in a thin stream, joining the rest of the ingredients, stir, and take the skillet off the heat.
Step 5:

Let the teriyaki sauce cool for a little while — about 20 minutes. Once it has cooled down a bit, carefully pour it into a small glass jar, seal it tightly with a lid, and store it in the refrigerator.

Recipe tips: 1. The sauce may still look thin while you're cooking it. Once you take the pan off the heat and let it sit for 10 minutes, it keeps cooking, and as it cools it thickens. You can also control the thickness by adding more or less starch during cooking. 2. Instead of dried ginger and garlic, you can use fresh — it changes the flavor of the sauce. Why make teriyaki sauce yourself: 1. It doesn't take long. 2. It dresses up any dish and makes it look incredibly appetizing; and if you, say, pan-fry chicken or meat in it, the food picks up an appealing caramelized glaze. 3. Teriyaki sauce is versatile — it lends any dish that special sweet-and-salty flavor. 4. Made at home with love, it always beats the store-bought kind.