How to make teriyaki sauce at home. Great dressing for salads and more

Teriyaki sauce is considered a traditional dish of Japanese cuisine, is a wonderful dressing for salads, emphasizes the taste of meat, fish and vegetable dishes. One of the best marinades that can soften even the toughest meat after it has been soaked in the sauce for at least half an hour.

In fact, there are two versions of the origin of teriyaki sauce. The first of them tells about its long and glorious history, which has more than three hundred years. According to it, the sauce was created at the Kikkiman (Turtle Shell) factory located in the village of Noda. The company specialized in the production of many types of sauces.

The second version is less pretentious. She says that teriyaki was created not at all in the Land of the Rising Sun, but on the glorious American island of Hawaii. It was there that Japanese emigrants, experimenting with local products, tried to recreate the taste of their national dishes. The original version of the world famous sauce was a mixture of pineapple juice and soy sauce.

The sauce is loved all over the world, it is actively used by chefs in the preparation of various dishes and marinades. Moreover, the exact recipe for teriyaki does not exist, each master adds something from himself to it.

Miriam Webster's Dictionary defines teriyaki as a noun meaning "a Japanese dish of meat or fish grilled or fried after soaking in a spicy soy marinade." It also explains the meaning of the terms "teri" as "icing" and "yaki" as "toasting".

We respect the sauce and supporters of a healthy diet. They appreciate it for its low calorie content (only 89 kcal per 100 g), and many useful properties, including normalizing blood pressure, improving digestion, relieving stress, and improving appetite.

Teriyaki sauce can be purchased at almost any fairly large supermarket, its cost will vary depending on the size of the trade margin and the brand of the manufacturer within 120-300 rubles. But you can also cook it at home.

How is Classic Teriyaki Sauce Made?

In its traditional version, teriyaki sauce is made by mixing and heating four basic ingredients:

mirin (sweet Japanese cooking wine);
cane sugar;
soy sauce;
sake (or other alcohol).

The ingredients can be taken in the same or different proportions depending on the recipe. All the products that make up the sauce are mixed, after which they are put on a slow fire, boiled down to the required density.

The finished sauce is added to meat or fish as a marinade, in which they can be kept for up to 24 hours. After that, the dish is fried on a grill or open fire. Sometimes ginger is added to the teriyaki, and the finished dish is garnished with green onions and sesame seeds.

The same shine mentioned in the name of the sauce is given by caramelized sugar and mirin or sake, depending on what exactly you added. A dish cooked in teriyaki sauce is served along with rice and vegetables.

Teriyaki and Mirin

The key ingredient in teriyaki sauce is mirin, a sweet cooking wine that has been around for over 400 years. Thicker and sweeter than sake (rice wine), it is made by fermenting rice yeast, cane sugar, steamed rice, and shochu (Japanese moonshine).

In the Asian market, mirin is very common, sold in the public domain, has a light golden color. It exists in two varieties:

Hon Mirin, contains 14% alcohol;
Shin Mirin, containing only 1% alcohol, has a similar taste and is used more frequently.

If mirin is not available to you, it can be replaced with a 3:1 mixed sake or dessert wine with sugar.

Teriyaki sauce - step by step recipe with photo

The proposed teriyaki sauce is very well suited for meat and especially vegetable salads. In winter, this is especially true, since the time for tomatoes and fresh cucumbers is over, and the body still needs to be filled with vitamins. Everyone loves winter radishes, carrots, beets, cabbage, celery seasoned with Teriyaki sauce.

The teriyaki salad dressing recipe is very simple. For its preparation you will need:

soy sauce - 200 ml;
confiture (thick syrup, better than light jam) - 200 ml;
sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
dry white wine - 100-120 ml;
starch -2.5 - 3 tbsp. spoons;
water - 50-70 g.

Cooking:

Pour soy sauce, confiture and dry white wine into a saucepan, add sugar and, stirring, bring to a boil.
Dissolve the starch in water and slowly pour into the boiling liquid, not forgetting to stir. Teriyaki sauce is ready.

Its consistency resembles liquid sour cream. Cool, pour into a jar and refrigerate.

If you grate radishes, carrots, beets and add a couple of tablespoons of the proposed dressing and a couple of tablespoons of sour cream, you get an unusually tasty salad. You can, of course, use other vegetables as well.
"Teriyaki" can be stored in the refrigerator for several weeks, its taste is well preserved.

Simple Teriyaki

Ingredients:

1/4 cup each dark soy sauce and sake
40 ml mirin;
20 g of granulated sugar.

Cooking order:

Mix all ingredients in a saucepan.
Stirring constantly, heat them over medium heat until the sugar dissolves.
Use the resulting thick sauce immediately or cool and store in the refrigerator.

To prepare any teriyaki dish, you need to soak pieces of fish, meat or shrimp in the sauce, then grill or deep-fry them. In the process of cooking, the meat is additionally greased with sauce several times to get a delicious, shiny crust.

Fragrant version of teriyaki sauce

This recipe is a little more complicated than the previous one, but only in that you have to collect more ingredients. It is also prepared simply and quickly.

Ingredients:

¼ st. soy sauce;
¼ st. purified water;
1 st. l. corn starch;
50-100 ml of honey;
50-100 ml of rice vinegar;
4 tbsp. l. mashed with a blender pineapple;
40 ml pineapple juice;
1 clove of garlic (chopped);
1 tsp grated ginger.

Procedure:

In a small saucepan, whisk together soy sauce, water, and cornstarch until smooth. Then add the rest of the ingredients except honey.
Place the saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly. When the sauce is hot, but not yet boiling, add honey to it and dissolve it.
Bring the mixture to a boil, then lower the heat and continue stirring until you reach the desired consistency.

Since the sauce thickens quickly, it is better not to leave it unattended, otherwise there is a risk of simply burning the dish that is not yet ready. If the teriyaki is too thick, add more water.

Teriyaki chicken

Chicken cooked according to this recipe will turn out tender, unusually tasty and fragrant.

Ingredients:

340 g chicken thighs with skin, but without bones;
1 tsp finely grated ginger;
¼ tsp salt;
2 tsp frying oils;
1 tbsp fresh, not thickened honey;
2 tbsp sake;
1 tbsp mirin;
1 tbsp Soy sauce.

Cooking steps:

Rub the washed chicken with ginger and salt. After half an hour, wipe it with a paper towel, carefully removing excess ginger.
Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan. Chicken can only be put in when it is very hot.
Fry the chicken on one side until golden brown;
Turn the meat over, add half the sake, steam for 5 minutes under the lid;
Meanwhile, prepare the teriyaki. Mix sake, mirin, honey and soy sauce. Mix thoroughly.
Remove the lid from the pan, drain all the liquid, blot the rest with a paper towel.
Increase the heat, pour in the sauce and let it boil. Turn the chicken constantly so that it does not burn and is evenly coated with sauce.
Teriyaki chicken is ready when most of the liquid has evaporated and the meat itself is covered with a caramelized crust.

Serve the finished dish on a plate sprinkled with sesame seeds. An excellent side dish for her will be vegetables, noodles or rice. Good appetite is guaranteed!

20.10.2016

Decided to get this sweet-and-salty sauce for my next "Asian" noodle dish.

It was not possible to find teriyaki in the nearest supermarkets. Asked a friend. He bought a 300 ml bottle at METRO for 320 rubles. Not bad for the amount of sauce.

It was in March 2015. Today the cost has increased.
For example, I will give Moscow prices on 04/08/18.Teriyaki sauce "Santa Maria".
Auchan - 443 rubles. Ozone - 393 rubles. Crossroads - 659 rubles. Azbuka Vkusa - 692 rubles.

Teriyaki sauce "Santa Maria". Bottle 300 ml

And as it usually happens after the purchase, I decided to look on the Internet whether it is possible to prepare teriyaki sauce at home, while spending less money than on finished products.

It turned out as much as possible. There are a dozen recipes on how to cook teriyaki sauce, and the cooking methods themselves are easy and quick.

Soy sauce
‏150 ml (40 rubles, 220 ml)
Wine vinegar (6% from white wine)
‏ 1 tablespoon
dried ginger
‏1-2 teaspoons (15 rub. pack)
dried garlic
‏1-2 teaspoons (20 rub. pack)
Cane sugar
‏8 cubes or 4 teaspoons (50 rubles per 500 gr.)
Potato starch
‏2-3 teaspoons without a slide (30 rubles a pack of 200 gr.)
Honey
‏1 tablespoon
Water
80 ml - 1/3 faceted glass
Refined olive or sunflower oil
‏2 teaspoons
Glass container with lid

Teriyaki Sauce Ingredients

Food cost as of 03.2015: 265 rubles

Time for preparing: 10-15 minutes

Preparation of teriyaki sauce. Recipe with step by step photos:

Turn on the medium flame under the pan or saucepan.
Gradually pour in and pour out:

150 ml soy sauce
8 cubes or 4 heaping teaspoons of sugar
1 heaping teaspoon dry ginger and garlic

Step 1. Add soy sauce, sugar, garlic and ginger

1 tablespoon wine vinegar
2 teaspoons olive or sunflower oil
1 tablespoon honey

Step 2. Add honey, oil, vinegar. mix

Stir constantly so that the sugar does not stick to the sides of the bowl. We are waiting for the sauce to begin to boil.

Mix 3 level teaspoons of starch with 80 ml of water and mix. So you get rid of lumps.

Add starch dissolved in water to boiling sauce. Mix well and turn off the fire.

If the sauce doesn't look very thick, it's okay. After 5-10 minutes, it will reach readiness and become denser.

Step 4. Teriyaki sauce comes to readiness

Teriyaki sauce is ready.

After 15-20 minutes, when the sauce has cooled down a bit, pour it into a glass container with a lid.
Store teriyaki sauce in the refrigerator.
This recipe kept my teriyaki for about a week. The taste was good. It was impossible to leave it longer, I ate it earlier.

Recipe Ingredient Substitutions

Instead of wine vinegar you can use 100 ml of mirin (very sweet rice wine) or the same amount of dry white wine.

Reed sugar replace it with a regular one.

Ginger and garlic can be taken fresh. In this case, they should be finely or coarsely chopped. Add to the pan with other ingredients and after the sauce is ready, strain the teriyaki through a sieve.

Amount of starch can be changed to your taste. If you want to get a thick sauce to add to ready meals or salads, then add 3-4 teaspoons without a slide. If you need a liquid sauce for frying ingredients or for marinade, then you can add 1-2 teaspoons of starch or do without it at all.

Application, composition and taste of teriyaki sauce

Some information about the sauce:

Teriyaki (Teriyaki, derived from words teri- glitter from sugar and yaks- fried) - is a traditional sauce of Japanese cuisine.
It does not have an exact cooking recipe, but it is usually prepared on the basis of soy sauce, adding fresh or dried ginger, garlic and other spices.

In its classic form, it is prepared with the addition of soy sauce, mirin (rice wine) and sake, in proportions of 1/1/1.

This sauce is versatile. It is suitable for various side dishes, meat and fish dishes, for dressing salads.

Teriyaki can be used to marinate chicken, pork, beef, fish or vegetables. To do this, its consistency is made more liquid, excluding starch.

He has an interesting taste. It is both sweet and salty at the same time, which gives the dish piquancy and adds an interesting aftertaste. You have to try it once to understand its taste for yourself. It is difficult to convey it subjectively.

Recipes with teriyaki sauce:

Japanese cuisine is known all over the world for its original taste and restraint. Among rolls, miso soups and noodles, Teriyaki sauce takes pride of place, which is considered to be a separate dish. It is used in the preparation of many products, the surface of which, after processing, acquires a lacquered sheen. You can buy it in the store, but the sauce is especially delicious when cooked at home.

How to make Teriyaki sauce - what is it and composition

The dish is a thick syrup with a dark tint, but much brighter than soy sauce. It has a sweetish-salty taste that will add piquancy to the finished dish.
There are two types of product. One is used as a marinade, as a result of which the dish acquires an interesting taste, but only on the surface. If you marinate the product with it for a longer time, then it will be able to make even the toughest meat soft.
The second type of sauce is added during frying or stewing. In this case, the product is completely saturated with it and acquires an original taste. In this case, each piece in the dish will become glossy.
The classic recipe involves the use of rice vodka. But modern dishes often add soy sauce, ginger, honey and dried garlic.
Separately, on sale you can find a mixture of spices for making Teriyaki sauce, the basis of which can be soy sauce.
For a homemade recipe, it is best to add brown sugar. In addition to color, it is healthy, has a spicy taste and is not so sweet. But you can also use regular sugar, but only in a smaller amount.
The sauce may contain, in addition to wine vinegar, white wine, orange juice, sesame seeds, fish sauce, olive oil.
There are several recipes for Teriyaki sauce, so choose it depending on the intended processing of the product and its type.
With sauce, they not only marinate and fry, but also use it as an addition to the dish. It is great for pasta and noodles, seafood, salads.
Especially valuable sauce for cooking food on the fire. It makes the meat fibers softer, the taste is rich, and the smell is fragrant.

How to Make Teriyaki Sauce - Traditional Recipe

The basis of this dish is soy sauce. It's easy to make it at home. Prepare these foods:

soy sauce - 6 tbsp. l.;
honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
rice wine - 6 tbsp. l.;
chopped ginger - 1 tbsp. l.;
fresh garlic - 1 clove.

Advice. Instead of rice wine, you can add white, but only dry wine. Do not use salt in this recipe as the soy sauce itself is salty.

Recipe:

Peel the garlic and finely chop or chop in a garlic maker. Use only fresh garlic. In this cooking method, dried spice will not give the desired taste.
Mix the liquid ingredients of the sauce together (soy sauce and wine). Pour into a saucepan and put on low heat.
When the mixture warms up, add honey. Stir the liquid constantly until the honey dissolves.
Then add ginger and after a couple of seconds - garlic. Stir the mixture and heat for another 2-3 minutes, but do not bring to a boil.
Cool the sauce and add it to any dishes as an additional ingredient or dressing.

How to make orange teriyaki sauce

Citrus taste will give the dish freshness and pleasant sourness. Therefore, such fruits are often added to the sauce.

You will need the following products and spices:

juice of 2 oranges;
soy sauce - 100 ml;
ginger root - 2 tbsp. l.;
sesame oil - 2 tsp;
shallots - 100 gr.;
fresh garlic - 2 cloves;
sesame seeds - 2 tsp;
honey - 2 tbsp. l.

Progress:

Prepare the ingredients. Peel and chop the garlic in a convenient way for you. Chop the green onion very finely. Be sure to peel the ginger root and grate it. Squeeze juice from oranges.
To give sesame seeds an interesting flavor, fry them lightly in butter.
In a container, lightly heat the soy sauce, add honey and heat the mixture until it is completely dissolved. Pour in the sesame oil.
Then add orange juice and prepared spices with herbs. Mix the sauce well, heat for a couple more minutes and remove from the stove.

Important! During the preparation of the sauce, do not allow it to boil, otherwise the taste will deteriorate, and the beneficial properties of the components will become useless.

This recipe is for pickling and frying. It goes well with pork and chicken fillet.

Don't make too much sauce at once. Since it contains many raw ingredients, it does not have a long shelf life.
If you have leftover product, store it in a tightly closed container in a cool place, such as a refrigerator.
To marinate the meat evenly and acquire the taste of the sauce, make a few shallow cuts on it.
When cooking with this product, salt it last, but always taste it before doing so. Since the composition contains soy sauce, there is a risk of salting the dish.

If you know the basic components and cooking technology, then making Teriyaki sauce at home is easy.

1. Pour the soy sauce into a saucepan, and then add the dry ingredients: ground ginger, dried garlic (you can also use fresh garlic, passed through a press) and cane sugar.

“Is it possible to replace cane sugar with beet sugar?”: many will ask. Of course, only in this case you will not receive a huge portion of minerals useful for the body (potassium, iron, calcium) and B vitamins. Buy cane sugar at reliable points of sale so as not to get a low-quality, tinted fake.

2. In the next step, pour in refined vegetable oil (odorless)

4. Then add mirin - the national rice wine, the "ladies" variety of sake.

As a drink, it is used quite rarely, but as a seasoning in cooking - as often as soy sauce. Do not confuse it with rice vinegar, they are completely different products.

Wine vinegar can be used as an alternative, although more experienced cooks will resort to dry white sherry (in smaller proportions) diluted with a few drops of wine vinegar.

Enter the starch previously dissolved in water into the sauce (when using vinegar, the portion of starch should be reduced by 2 tsp).

5. Cook teriyaki on a low flame, bring to a boil and continue to cook for another 5 minutes. When hot, it is too liquid, and when chilled, it becomes the desired consistency (thicker). Be sure to sample for salt and sugar, and add honey if necessary.

6. Pour the cooled sauce into a glass jar with a lid and refrigerate.

Teriyaki is best prepared in advance, at least the night before the planned feast. Store the sauce at low temperatures, in glassware for no more than 7 days.

Teriyaki sauce is an iconic sauce in Japanese cuisine. It is added to a huge number of local dishes. And teriyaki, without a doubt, adds zest to them.

Today this sauce is known far beyond Japan. In our country, it is very much loved and actively used in culinary experiments. And this is understandable, because teriyaki has a unique and unforgettable taste.

Together with the Heinz Culinary Academy, we understand the secret of the popularity of the universal teriyaki sauce and share cool recipes that you must try.

A bit of history

Teriyaki sauce has been known to the culinary world for over two millennia. Once upon a time, in the small Japanese village of Noda, two families founded a mini-factory for the production of delicious sauces that could decorate and diversify any dish. Their sauces became so popular that they became famous all over the world.

Today, many believe that teriyaki is not just a sauce, but a whole philosophy of cooking. It is widely known in various parts of the world. Gourmets adore this sauce because it gives dishes a unique taste.

By the way, "teri" in Japanese means "shine", and "yari" means "fry". This is largely due to the way most dishes are prepared: the Japanese fry the ingredients in teriyaki sauce until an appetizing shine appears.

About the composition

Teriyaki sauce is loved by every Japanese family. Today, everything has become much easier - this sauce can be purchased at any store. And it will taste really great. But it also happens that a unique teriyaki recipe has remained in the family from past generations, according to which the sauce has been prepared for many generations.

Traditional ingredients for making teriyaki are soy sauce, sugar, ginger and mirin rice wine. It is mirin that is responsible for the unique flavor of soy sauce.

If you want to have traditional teriyaki sauce in your arsenal, we advise you to seek the help of professionals. For example, Heinz "Teriyaki" sauce is made according to the original recipe and has an amazing taste and aroma.

Beneficial features

Few people know, but teriyaki sauce is quite healthy. Its regular use improves the functioning of the digestive system, stimulates appetite, normalizes blood pressure, calms the nervous system and relieves tension and symptoms of fatigue. Are you sad? Eat salmon with teriyaki sauce and life will shine again with bright colors.

Interestingly, teriyaki sauce is popular among adherents of proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. The fact is that Japanese sauce is low in calories and can easily decorate light, but at the same time nutritious food.

Application in cooking

The taste and aroma of teriyaki haunt gourmets around the world. The sauce has a wide range of flavors. Its sweetish taste with unobtrusive sourness and thick, viscous texture pleasantly envelop each piece of the dish and elevate it to the pinnacle of gastronomic bliss.

As for the possibilities of gastronomic use of this sauce, there are a great many of them. Teriyaki sauce will perfectly complement meat, poultry, fish - especially salmon - and seafood, decorate vegetable and not only salads, and will successfully fit into complex snacks. If you like smoky dishes, then teriyaki will help enhance the "smoky" taste. Traditionally, the sauce goes well with grilled dishes.

Often, some interesting and original salad dressing is prepared on the basis of teriyaki sauce. You can add or transform the taste of a popular sauce, for example, due to unusual spices and fruits.

Be sure to serve extra sauce at the table if you're having a Japanese-style dinner. Teriyaki is a must for sushi and noodles.

Delicious Recipes with Heinz Teriyaki Sauce

The Heinz Culinary Academy website has a delicious collection of cool recipes for all occasions. There are Japanese dishes among them, to which all eminent chefs add teriyaki sauce without fail. We share the coolest recipes that include Japanese sauce.

Rice with egg and vegetables

No time for a complex dinner, but still want something tasty? Prepare ordinary rice with vegetables, but serve it to the table in an unusual way. A small amount of Heinz "Teriyaki" sauce will noticeably transform the dish and give it a unique Asian touch.

Ingredients:

Boiled rice 150 g
Sweet pepper 20 g
Cauliflower 20 g
Zucchini 20 g
Carrot 40 g
Eggs 1 pc.
Garlic 3 g
Ginger 3 g
Green onion 5 g
Sauce Heinz "Teriyaki" 1 st. l.
Sesame seeds to taste

Cooking method:

Heat up a frying pan and pour vegetable oil into it. Put garlic and ginger at the same time in the pan, as well as chopped vegetables. Fry on maximum heat for 1 minute. Remove from pan.
Pour oil into the same pan and heat it up. Break the egg into the pan and break it into small pieces with a spatula.
Add vegetables, pre-cooked rice to the pan, season everything with Heinz Teriyaki sauce.
Serve garnished with chopped green onions and sesame seeds.

Chicken heart skewers

Who said that teriyaki sauce goes only with fish dishes? It is not true. You can see for yourself the opposite by preparing a delicious shish kebab of chicken hearts. The taste of this amazing dish will not leave anyone indifferent.

Ingredients:

Chicken hearts 200 g
Lemon juice 20 g
Garlic 1 clove
Onion 150 g
Salt 50 g
Vegetable oil taste
Sauce Heinz "Teriyaki" 1.5 st. l.

Cooking method:

Rinse and clean chicken hearts.
Peel the garlic, chop the onion randomly and mix everything with the Heinz Teriyaki sauce, lemon juice, pepper and salt. You can add spice mix if you like.
Pour the marinade over the chicken hearts and leave for 2-3 hours. Easy to marinate in a vacuum bag. If not, take a zip lock bag. Instead, you can take ordinary deep dishes, but in this case, open it every 30–40 minutes and stir the hearts so that they marinate evenly.
Heat the pan to high heat and fry the hearts until golden brown for 30 seconds on both sides.
Send the hearts to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 2-4 minutes. Every minute you need to open the oven and glaze the hearts a little with marinade or Heinz Teriyaki sauce.
Serve the dish to the table.