Recipe for Teriyaki Sauce Homemade. A sauce made for everything. NOt too sweet version and Super easy recipe for Teriyaki sauce, made only of 8 ingredients. You will be able to use it as marinade, glaze and dipping sauce.
Recipe for Teriyaki Sauce Homemade
I love teriyaki sauce. I pretty much drink it up and suck it like a smoothie. Doing that though can get expensive especially when you want to budget. Although buying Teriyaki sauce can be cheap. It’s about $3.00 if you buy a branded one and about $2.00 for a Great Value from Walmart, but if you want to extend the sauce, buying it can become expensive in the long run; so Homemade Teriyaki Sauce is still a cheap option when you are in a tight budget.
We have a very good Japanese restaurant here and this recipe I am using below is how their Teriyaki sauce tastes.
I’ve tried different recipes on the internet and they came out a disappointment, until I found this recipe from Rhubarbarians .This recipe came out as close as the taste to that of our Japanese resto.
So I am rooting for this recipe no matter how non authentic it is. This sauce doesn’t contain Mirin or Sake’; so you don’t have to worry about those. It only needs these 8 very simple ingredients listed below which you can easily find in your store, or you may already have in your pantry.
There are several versions of Teriyaki sauce and it depends on how one wants it to taste. Some add ginger and garlic to theirs. I tried those too; but since I have my sauce preference, I tweaked and looked for a certain recipe and this version achieved that; and it called for a half cup of pineapple juice to achieve the meld of flavor I wanted in my Teriyaki sauce.
How about you, how do you want your Teriyaki sauce to taste?
What does Teriyaki Means?
Word Teriyaki Means teri luster and gleam while yaki means grill. Japanese use a Teriyaki sauce to achieve the gleam and luster of a certain meal and Teriyaki sauce is used as well to marinate the meat.
Unfortunately, Teriyaki sauce is not as healthy a sauce as you want it to be, since it consists of a tantamount amount of sodium and sugar.
This has become famous for its contrasting flavor in one sauce. You can relish sweet,tang and briny flavor melded together..
Before we begin making this sauce, let me share with you why I love this recipe:
- No need to chop aromatics
- Simple ingredients that are pantry staples.
- Not too sweet.
- It just taste like how I tasted in the Japanese restaurants
- Very simple to make
So let’s make Teriyaki Sauce – homemade and with these no fuss ingredients!
Teriyaki Sauce Ingredients:
- Cornstarch & Water for slurry
- Soy sauce
- Water as extender
- Brown Sugar
- Garlic Powder
- Ground Ginger
- Pineapple Juice
How to make the Sauce
- In a small size cup, mix the cornstarch and water. Mix until there are no lumps and set aside.
- Place the saucepan on the stove top and set fire to low. Add the sugar, water, soy sauce, garlic powder, ground ginger and pineapple. Stir until the sugar is fully dissolved and bubbly. Add the cornstarch mixture and stir until thick.
- Remove mixture from heat and let cool. Transfer to a container and store in the fridge for next use. Use lavishly.
Ways to Use this Sauce
- Teriyaki beef
- Teriyaki Chicken
- Glaze for Salmon
- Sauce for saute’ing your veggies.
- Use as sauce for noodles.
- Use this as a marinade too when barbecuing beef, pork or salmon.
How long can you keep Homemade Teriyaki Sauce in the refrigerator
- You can keep this sauce in the fridge for 1 year, but always pay attention to its smell and look If you smell it as rancid and off smell and it’s moldy, it has to be discarded.
How do you store leftover Ingredients
- Place leftover sauce in the fridge and it will last for a year. If you notice that the odor is off and the appearance has changed its color, discard immediately. It it becomes moldy., get rid of it immediately.
- You can also store this sauce in the freezer. Place it in a container and freeze.
What are you going to do with the leftover pineapple?
My family loves pineapple juice, so we simply drink it with ice, but if you bought a big can of pineapple and have a great deal of leftovers, I put it in a container and freeze it. I sometimes portion according to my next recipe.
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TERIYAKI SAUCE HOMEMADE
Ingredients
Slurry
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 6 tablespoons water
Sauce
- 1 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup water
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1/2 cup pineapple juice
Instructions
Make the slurry
- In a small size cup, mix the cornstarch and water. Mix until there are no lumps and set aside.
Make the Sauce
- Place the saucepan on the stove top and set fire to low. Add the sugar, water, soy sauce, garlic powder, ground ginger and pineapple. Stir until the sugar is fully dissolved and bubbly. Add the cornstarch mixture and stir until thick.
- Remove mixture from heat and let cool. Transfer to a container and store in the fridge for next use. Use lavishly.
How to Store
- Place leftover pineapple juice in a container and freeze. Put in the fridge if you will be able to consume right away.
- Cool the sauce and put in the fridge. You can freeze it too.
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