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

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

I know the kind you mean but I don't know a recipe for the thick stuff nor can I remember the brand I used to buy years ago. I'd suggest asking at your local Chinese Supermarket.

[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!

[pm215]

This is the recipe in the Wagamama cookbook. No guarantees as to whether it's any good (or indeed that it doesn't turn out to be the thin kind).

Makes about 125ml. Ingredients: 110g (4oz) sugar, 4 tablespoons light soy sauce, 2 tablespoons sake, 1 teaspoon dark soy sauce.

Place sugar and light soy sauce in a small pan over a low heat and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Simmer for 5 minutes until thick, add the sake and dark soy sauce and allow to cool. Will keep for a few weeks in the fridge.

I believe that you can approximate mirin with sake + sugar, which I suspect is what's being done here.

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

You may want to add extra sugar, depending on how sweet the mirin is and how sweet you like it!

Be careful reducing syrups - use a heavy-bottomed pan, keep stirring, and keep the heat low (stripey_cat's mother tried to hurry along a syrup by whacking the heat up, and it boiled over, ignited on the elements, set off the fire-alarms in Hilda's accommodation, resulted in the Junior Dean cutting her hand trying to switch the alarm off, and left a lava-like mess on the cooker).

Don't use cornflour - you'll get entirely the wrong mouth-feel, and it'll taste nasty if it singes when you grill it!

[killalla]

www.japancentre.com - They also have a store in Piccadilly, which can probably handle most of your sauce needs. Although, when you describe 'thick' sauce, do you mean tonkatsu saunce, instead of teriyaki sauce?

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

My recipe's for the thin-kind, so can't help I'm afraid: although I did defrost some overnight & have some pork marinating in it for when I get home :-)

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

This isn't exactly what you asked for, and I don't know if you can get it in the UK, but I highly recommend Soy Vay's Veri Veri Teriyaki sauce. It's fabulous. It's the only bottled teriyaki I've ever had that tastes as good as the stuff they use at my favourite Japanese restaurant in St Albans. The company's run by a Chinese girl and a Jewish boy, hence the 'Soy Vay' bit. All the ingredients are proper and real. It's a marinade really, but when you cook it it turns into wonderful thick, sticky, gooey stuff which oozes flavour.