Homemade Teriyaki Sauce
Ingredients:
½ cup soy sauce
¼ cup brown sugar
1½ teaspoons fresh ginger, minced
1 teaspoon garlic, minced
1 tablespoon honey (Vegans: use agave nectar)
1 teaspoon sesame oil
3 tablespoons mirin (Mirin is a sweet Japanese rice wine, similar to sake but with a lower alcohol content and higher sugar content. If you don't have mirin, you can use sherry with a pinch of sugar added to it).
¼ cup water mixed with 3 teaspoons cornstarch
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for about 4 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.
Make typical chinese stir fry with vegetables, meat/substitute, cashew nuts and a few slices of fresh chilli, cook rice, add sauce.
Seriously this is incredible, and way better than anything you get in the takeaways. The rarer ingredients can be found in asian supermarkets or the asain sections of British supermarkets. Buy them once and they last an age.