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Homemade teriyaki sauce made of three ingredients and great on chicken, beef and salmon. This teriyaki sauce recipe is easy, healthy and the best!
Teriyaki Sauce Recipe
Homemade teriyaki sauce is so easy to make. It calls for only three (3) ingredients and takes only 10 minutes to make.
The best thing is that you can make your own teriyaki sauce in advance and keep it in the fridge.
Use it on your favorite teriyaki chicken, beef teriyaki or salmon teriyaki whenever you like.
Dinner is so much easier and quicker when you’ve mastered the skill to make this sauce.
Teriyaki Sauce Ingredients
The best sauce calls for only three (3) ingredients:
- Japanese soy sauce
- Mirin
- Sugar
For the soy sauce, I recommend Japanese brands, such as Kikkoman and San-J soy sauce.
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients.
How To Make Teriyaki Sauce
To make this easy sauce, you just need to heat up all the ingredients in a small sauce pan.
Reduce the sauce on simmer or low heat, until the sauce becomes thicker.
Transfer the sauce to an airtight container and keep it in the refrigerator.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you can certainly use the sauce as a marinade. It’s great to marinate chicken, shrimp or meat.
This recipe is not gluten free. Most soy sauce has gluten.
However, you can use Tamari soy sauce which is gluten free. San-J Tamari soy sauce is a good choice.
This recipe yields 1/2 cup or 127 calories.
What To Serve With Teriyaki Sauce
You can use the sauce to make the following recipes.
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Teriyaki Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup Japanese mirin, sweet rice wine
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce, low sodium preferred
- 1 tablespoon sugar
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients for the Teriyaki Sauce in a saucepan.
- Simmer over low heat, reducing it to a thicker consistency for about 10 minutes.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
What do I sub for sweet rice wine – I don’t partake of alcohol. Thank you
Apple Juice is our favorite or Vegetable Stock.