Recipe request

[venta]

Does anyone have a good recipe for teriyaki sauce ? I'm after the thick, sticky kind which is served in some Japanese restaurants. Not the thin kind (although that's good as a marinade), which is also served in some Japanese restaurants :)

Failing that, can anyone recommend a brand of buyable sticky sauce ?

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Hopefully someone can find you a proper recipe, but speaking as a no-recipes person: this seems like exactly the situation where you don't want a recipe!

The flavour's just ginger and garlic (isn't it?) in a base of soy sauce and sugar. So stir some of those up until it tastes right and then add cornflour until it's the right thickness.

Or for that authentic following-a-recipe feel, try adding some extra steps which waste your time, create more washing up or oblige you to spend hours scouring the shelves of some chinese supermarket for something almost identical to one of the above ingredients!

[venta.livejournal.com]

I thought the most important ingredient in teriyaki sauce was mirin... which is quite distinctive-tasting and I doubt sugar would be the same. And the idea of just adding cornflour to make it thick sounds disgusting! It may well be the right thing, but it sounds nasty to me, and as if it would end up quite the wrong consistency.

I'm happy to create stuff at random, but I'd like a recipe to start with as I'm really not sure how one goes about it. Once I've got one I'll probably ignore it :)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I thought the most important ingredient in teriyaki sauce was mirin

You're probably right, but having only ever seen the ingredients list on the supermarket versions I've yet to encounter it.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah. It's what makes nice teriyaki sauce "shiny" (and sweet), I think.

A bit of googling suggests that the sticky sauce might be more of an American thing than an authentic Japanese thing, though, so perhaps it mostly exists in bastardised Western versions.