The Basic Teriyaki Sauce. Super Quick Easy and Tasty. Just with 3 key ingredients.

The Basic Teriyaki Sauce. Super quick Easy and Tasty. Just with 3 main key ingredients. You simply need to keep this sauce ready before you prepare any chicken, fish, or veggies of choice. It is one of the basic steps you need to follow to get that sweet and slightly sour flavor in your recipe. Strike fry anything that you like with this sauce and see the magic.

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I and my family personally prefer this scrumptious sauce with almost any type of stir-fried Chicken/shrimp or any veggies. Below is the list is given which is the next level of added extra flavor mixed with this basic teriyaki sauce. I do recommend going through the contents below 👇 and try at least once at home.

Ingredients required to prepare Teriyaki Sauce ~

• 2 tablespoons Sesame Seeds (dry-roasted)
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon of cornstarch

Cook time ~

7 minutes to 10 minutes

Short Summary for the recipe ~

Dry-roast 2 tablespoons of sesame seeds in a saucepan. Mix 1/2 cup of water with 1/4 cup of low sodium soy sauce, and 1 tablespoon of cornstarch. Give these a nice whisk. Then turn on the flame 🔥 and start adding 1/4 cup of honey 🍯 into it. Stir and cook until the mixture thickens. At the end add the dry-roasted sesame seeds and give it a mix. Let it cool. Once cooled or stir-fried with the other ingredients like chicken fish or any veggies, the consistency gets a little thicker and nicer.

Step by step method along with the images shown below ⬇️

Dry-roast, 2 tablespoons of sesame seeds in a saucepan. Dry-roast these until slightly browned.

Mix 1/2 cup of water with 1/4 cup of low sodium soy sauce, and 1 tablespoon of cornstarch. Give these a nice whisk.

Then turn on the flame 🔥 and start adding 1/4 cup of honey 🍯 into it.

Stir and cook until the mixture thickens.

At the end add the dry-roasted sesame seeds and give them a mix. Let it cool.

Continue to cook until done.

A thick bubble appears, turn off the flame. Allow it to cool. Store or use instantly into any recipe that you want to try. It especially goes well with Chickens, fish, shrimps, beef, pork, sausages, noodles, or any veggies or even paneer.

Once it is being added and stir-fried with other ingredients like chicken fish or any veggies/paneer, the consistency gets a little thicker and nicer as being cooked further.

What is Teriyaki Sauce Made Off ?

Teriyaki sauce is popular all around the world with its savory-salty-sweet flavor with lots of umami undertones. Traditionally the main ingredients that are used in Japan are soy sauce, mirin, and sake with a few pinches of sugar and ginger in some cases. But nowadays a variation in flavors is being introduced by adding brown sugar, ginger and garlic, orange juice/pineapple juice, and of course including the sesame seeds to give the sauce a crunchy nutty effect.

This teriyaki sauce also goes well with meat, such as chicken, beef, fish, and pork, when used as a marinade. For example honey barbeque chicken which is very popular with an added extra flavor of lemon juice or zest in it.

Traditionally, teriyaki sauce was used with fish, in Japanese cuisine. It is used to top fishes like mackerel, salmon, marlin, trout, yellowtail, and skipjack tuna.

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Nutrition ~

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