Japanese Style Teriyaki Sauce

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Servings: 12
Yield: 12 servings

Description

This is a Japanese style teriyaki sauce/marinade that uses pineapple with skins, apples and mirin. You can adjust sweetness to your specifications by altering the amount of sugar.

Ingredients

3 cups soy sauce
1 1/2 cups mirin (Japanese sweet wine)
1 orange, juiced
6 ounces chopped fresh pineapple with skin
1 Granny Smith apple, cored and chopped
2 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger root
4 tablespoons white sugar, divided

Directions

1 In a saucepan, combine soy sauce, mirin, orange juice, pineapple, Granny Smith apple, garlic, ginger, and half of the sugar; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 20 minutes. Adjust sweetness to taste with remaining sugar.
2 Strain through a fine mesh sieve; cool.