Japanese Style Teriyaki Sauce
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
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3 cups soy sauce
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1 1/2 cups mirin (Japanese sweet wine)
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1 orange, juiced
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6 ounces chopped fresh pineapple with skin
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1 Granny Smith apple, cored and chopped
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2 cloves garlic
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1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger root
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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.