Homemade Teriyaki Sauce- the delicious and the quickest sauce best for Asian recipes, made from easy to available pantry staples. You’ll need only 4 ingredients to make this bold and thick teriyaki sauce. This sauce is great as a marinade and as well as a thick sauce served with your favorite protein. Make a bottle of this sauce and you’ll never go back to the store-bought again!
How to use Homemade teriyaki sauce
This easy-to-make homemade teriyaki sauce begins with just ingredients that form a quick marinade, or they can thicken up a bit into a shiny glaze or sauce with the addition of cornstarch slurry and heat.
- Teriyaki sauce as a marinade: You can use this sauce as a marinade for protein like tofu, chicken breast, or thighs and even for fish fillets. You just have to marinate the chicken, or fish for at least 45 minutes or you can even keep it overnight in an airtight container in the fridge. And for the fish fillets, marinate for no more than 15 to 20 minutes. Then just toss the protein on the grill or cook in an iron skillet, bake, or air fry.
- Simply as a sauce: You can use the teriyaki sauce as a simple stir fry sauce by pouring the sauce into the pan, the heat will immediately simmer and thicken the sauce as it coats your stir fry protein, veggies, or noodles. Or you can even use this to simply brush onto the air fried or baked protein or tofu.
** Make sure to not use the USED marinade to make the stir fry sauce, make separate batches of it to avoid cross-contamination.**
Ingredients for Homemade teriyaki sauce
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To make Teriyaki marinade:
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- soy sauce or tamari (GF)
- brown sugar or honey or maple syrup
- 2-3 clove garlic, minced
- fresh ginger, ground
- water
- apple cider vinegar or rice vinegar
- sesame oil
- To make the sauce also add: (cornstarch slurry)
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- cornstarch
- Water
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How to make homemade teriyaki sauce
The homemade teriyaki sauce is super quick and easy to make, all you have to do is:
- Take a bowl and whisk all the ingredients, then transfer it into a saucepan.
- Simmer it over low to medium heat for about 3 to 4 minutes.
- Make the cornstarch slurry and add to the teriyaki sauce, cook just until it starts to thicken.
- Your homemade teriyaki sauce is ready to use!
You can use the sauce immediately or you can store it in an airtight container in the fridge for about 10 to 12 days. And you will notice that the flavor of the sauce will get enhance over time.
Some useful tips
- Make sure to not use the USED marinade to make the stir fry sauce, make separate batches of it to avoid cross-contamination.
- Store it in an airtight glass jar in the fridge for up to 10 -12 days.
- This recipe can easily be halved to make a small batch, great for one meal for 4 people.
Asian recipes:
- Teriyaki Tofu
- Sticky orange tofu
- General Tso’s Tofu
- Air fried tofu
- Vegetable Lo Mein
- Easy vegetable fried rice
- Schezwan Fried Rice
- Garlic noodles
