How To Make Japanese Eel Sauce

Sweet savory flavorful Yakiniku sauce is a Japanese BBQ sauce that complements grilled short ribs vegetables and other grilled goodies.

How to make japanese eel sauce. Add the mirin sugar and sake. Eel sauce Ina small pot bring 2 c of water to boil put in eel bones then simmer until the liquid reduce to ½ c. Eel sauce also contains mirin Japanese rice wine or something that mimics mirin while teriyaki typically doesnt.

Add ½ cup minced onion 1 clove of garlic and 1 tablespoon of butter along with ½ cup of water to mirin and soy sauce. In a large bowl mix together half the chives scallions rice wine vinegar sesame oil and fish sauce. Flip the eel and do the same on the other side.

Stir fry the onion in butter in a small pan and when they turn translucent add the rest ingredients ie water soy sauce mirin and garlic. Teriyaki sauce is another sweet salty and savory Japanese sauce of a similar color but its not the same thing as eel sauce. Broil until the surface of the fish starts to darken about 35 minutes.

Eel sauce ingredients for making homemade unagi sauce are 23 cup of white sugar four teaspoons of fish stock or dashi for additional flavoring a cup of shoyu a cup of mirin half a cup of sake half a tablespoon of plain cornstarch and two tablespoons of water. How to Make Eel SauceClick here to get the recipe I used in this video. 14 cup soy sauce.

Let it cook until you achieve your required thickness. Its not just for unagi eel but a multitude of BBQ dishes. I added a half cup of each ingredient to a sauce pan whisked it over medium-high heat and let it reduce by about a third before removing it from the heat.

Combine the ingredients in a pot except for the soy sauce. Place a medium saucepan over medium heat. Dont let the name stop you from making this goldern brown sauce.