Hoisin Sauce
The sweet-savoury Chinese glaze, built from fermented bean paste rather than bought in a bottle.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp fermented soybean paste
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 3 tbsp honey or molasses
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
- 1 pieces garlic clove, grated
- 0.5 tsp Chinese five spice
- 1 tsp sriracha or chilli paste
- 0.25 tsp black pepper
Nutrition (estimated)
medium confidenceRecipe total: 343 kcal · P 12.4g · C 58.9g · F 8.5g
Estimated from 9 of 9 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Whisk the fermented soybean paste with the soy sauce first until completely smooth. Adding everything at once leaves lumps of paste you cannot break up later.
- 2Whisk in the honey, rice vinegar and chilli paste.
- 3Add the grated garlic, five spice and black pepper.
- 4Warm the mixture gently in a small pan for 2-3 minutes — just enough to marry the flavours and dissolve the honey, not enough to boil.
- 5Take off the heat and stir in the sesame oil last so its aroma survives.
- 6Cool completely; it thickens as it cools.
- 7Keeps three weeks refrigerated. Use as a glaze in the last minutes of roasting, since the sugars scorch.
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Questions and answers
How long does Hoisin Sauce take to make?
About 15 minutes: 10 min prep and 5 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Hoisin Sauce?
9 ingredients: fermented soybean paste, soy sauce, honey or molasses, rice vinegar, toasted sesame oil, garlic clove, Chinese five spice, sriracha or chilli paste, black pepper.
How many servings does this Hoisin Sauce recipe make?
10 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Hoisin Sauce?
About 34 kcal, with 1.2 g protein, 5.9 g carbohydrate and 0.8 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Hoisin Sauce recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
What cuisine is Hoisin Sauce?
Hoisin Sauce comes from Chinese cuisine.
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