Teriyaki is a Japanese cooking technique using a sweet soy sauce marinade called tare. Tare is made from soy sauce, mirin wine or sake, and honey or sugar, and can be customized to taste. In non-Japanese cultures, teriyaki is often used loosely to describe any soy-based sweet sauce.
Teriyaki is a cooking technique in Japanese cuisine. It involves broiling or grilling food, usually meat, in a thick, sweet soy sauce marinade called tare. The sauce itself is often called teriyaki in English. In Japan, teriyaki is often used to cook fish. Teriyaki literally means ‘grill of shine’, due to the shiny appearance of food cooked in sweet tare sauce.
Tara sauce is traditionally made from soy sauce, mirin wine or sake or both, and honey or sugar. You can use brown or white sugar. The ingredients are stirred together over the heat until the sugar dissolves, then simmered until the sauce reduces to the desired consistency. Ginger, green onions, or both can be added closer to the end of the cooking process.
Mirin is a sweet rice wine used in Japanese cuisine. It is not typically used as a drink and is sweeter and thicker than a drinking wine. Mirin comes in two varieties; hon mirin has about 14% alcohol by volume (ABV), while shin mirin has only 1% ABV. Both types can be found in a Japanese market or in the international foods section of some supermarkets. Mirin adds aroma and some sweetness to the tare sauce.
Making tare sauce is simple, and it’s easy to customize any recipe to suit personal tastes. The sweetness can be adjusted by the amount of sugar added, the thickness is determined by how long you simmer the sauce, and adding extra ginger or green onions makes for a sauce with more kick. Food cooked using the teriyaki method is usually brushed with the sauce several times as it is cooked. Food can also be marinated in tare before cooking, so that the flavor is absorbed. Teriyaki is often eaten with rice and can be served hot or cold.
In non-Japanese cultures, teriyaki is often used rather loosely, to describe any soy-based sweet sauce. Western versions of teriyaki often include ingredients that are rarely used in Japanese versions of the dish, such as oranges, garlic, and sesame seeds or oil. The sauce may also be used as a condiment in the West, rather than a marinade in which to cook foods. It is sometimes brushed onto food only after cooking or used as a dipping sauce, such as for chicken wings.
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