This Homemade Teriyaki Sauce recipe features an elevated flavor profile when compared with its store bought counterpart. Use it as a glaze for grilling, to make your own stir fry at home or to enhance your favorite Asian inspired dishes.

Easy Homemade Teriyaki Sauce Recipe

This Teriyaki Sauce recipe is an elevated version of the kind of teriyaki purchased at the grocery store. How do you make Teriyaki Sauce? You begin with low sodium soy sauce which forms the base. It’s then filled with rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, water, brown sugar and honey and seasoned with garlic, crushed red pepper flakes, fresh ginger and salt. After cooking to allow the flavors to meld together, it’s thickened with a cornstarch slurry at the end of cooking to give it a full bodied texture. How to make quick Teriyaki Sauce from scratch:

Liquid – Water, low sodium soy sauce and rice wine vinegar.
Sugar – Light brown sugar and honey.
Oil – Sesame oil.
Garlic cloves and fresh ginger.
Seasonings – Salt and black pepper or crushed red pepper flakes to taste.
Thickener – Cornstarch.

How to Make the BEST Teriyaki Sauce

Ingredients you’ll need to make homemade Teriyaki Sauce: Water, low sodium soy sauce, honey, rice wine vinegar, light brown sugar, salt, black pepper or crushed red pepper flakes, garlic cloves, sesame oil, fresh ginger and cornstarch.
Kitchen tools you’ll need: A 10-12 inch skillet, measuring cups and spoons, small bowl and whisk.
What is a cornstarch slurry? It’s a thickener used for sauces, soups, condiments and used a lot in Asian cooking. To make it you’ll need equal parts cornstarch mixed with cold water. It’s important that cold water is used to prevent the cornstarch from clumping.
You can adjust the sweetness adding more brown sugar to your personal taste.
This sauce uses freshly minced ginger. If you prefer, you could use ground ginger adding 1/2 teaspoon at a time then tasting and adjusting the amount to suit your fancy.
How do you use this sauce? You can use it as a glaze for grilled chicken, pork or salmon. You can also use it to toss with cooked shrimp, pork, chicken or beef stir fry along with bell peppers, mushrooms and onions or vegetables such as asparagus and broccoli.
In addition, any Asian inspired dish or stir fry that calls for teriyaki sauce as an ingredient will be delicious using this sauce.
When grilling with this sauce, add it toward the end of cooking and avoid terribly high temperatures as it could burn. It adds color and char when used appropriately.
The yield can vary slightly depending on how much liquid evaporates while cooking. You’ll have around 1 cup when completed. This recipe easily doubles, if you need more.
Store prepared Teriyaki Sauce in a mason jar or airtight container chilled in the refrigerator for up to one week.

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