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]

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.