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Sunday, November 11, 2007
Try THIS Next Weekend — 071111
Tasty suggestions for a weekend of culinary pleasure.
I’m going to start doing this sort of thing every week or so, as a way to bring fine food and beverage to Pueblo.
This offering is a discovery about Asian cooking. You’ve heard of teriyaki sauce. Used on such delicious dishes as teriyaki chicken, Japanese barbecued chicken, a.k.a. yakatori.
I’ve figured out how to do a variation on teriyaki sauce, known as tsuekeyaki sauce. It is more flavorful as it has honey and lemon in it.
Here’s how you make it…..
Ingredients
1 cup soy sauce [Note: I prefer Kikkomens.]
1 cup dry sherry [Note: Or, if you have an inexpensive source, saki. P.S. I make my own sherry. It’s cheaper that way.]
.25 cup brown sugar
.25 cup honey
2 tsp lemon juice
.25 cup fresh minced onion
4 ea cloves minced garlic
1 tblsp fresh minced ginger
1 tblsp toasted sesame seed oil
2 tsp ground arrowroot
Process
Mix all ingredients, less the arrowroot in a sauce pan.
Bring to two boils. [Note: The first boil will be of small bubbles. This is the alcohol from the sherry boiling off. The second boil, after a brief pause, will be the good old roiling water boil. This is the boil you want.]
Strain the fluid through a sieve to remove the solid particles from the sauce.
Return the fluid to the sauce pan and put it back on the heating unit.
Take about a quarter cup of the fluid and put it in a mixing bowl.
Add the arrowroot to the fluid in the mixing bowl and mix thoroughly.
Return the arrowroot-fluid mixture to the sauce pan and combine thoroughly.
Bring the sauce up to a boil until it thickens.
Remove from heat and allow to cool.
Store in a sealed container in a refrigerator. [Note: I suspect that the salt and sugar content will prohibit the growth of bacteria and molds that would spoil the sauce, but I’m not certain…at this point. I’m doing an experiment to see how long it lasts without refrigeration. So far….four weeks….so good.]
Next installment….
....how to use this wonderful sauce in cooking.
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