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Sauces

Nothing elevates your meals faster and easier than an amazing sauce. Here are many of my favorite addictive sauces and condiments; let your imagination go wild with possibilities!

  • Mentsuyu can be dilluated with various amounts of water to make either a dipping sauce for cold noodles or a soup for hot noodle soups.
    Mentsuyu (Japanese Noodle Sauce)
  • Basic Tomato Sauce
  • Aromatic ginger scallion oil takes this easy pan-fried chicken with crispy skin to the next level.
    Crispy Chicken with Ginger Scallion Sauce
  • Shabu Shabu Salad with nutty Japanese sesame dressing is a quick yet satisfying meal for a hot summer day.
    Japanese Sesame Sauce (Goma Dare)
  • Grilled Chicken with Honey Mustard Dressing
  • Perspective shot of a table setting showcasing Ginger Miso Dressing with a baby green salad, and the variety of dishes it pairs with, like cold noodles and poached Salmon.
    Ginger Miso Dressing
  • Pouring homemade katsu sauce over crispy tonkatsu.
    Tonkatsu Sauce
  • Closeup of a sliced A5 wagyu steak cooked to medium rare with a Japanese steak sauce and garlic chips.
    How to Cook Wagyu Steak
  • Drizzling authentic Japanese teriyaki sauce over chicken.
    Best Homemade Teriyaki Sauce
  • Closeup of a bowl of umami-rich tempura sauce with traditional condiments like grated ginger and daikon.
    Tempura Sauce (Tentsuyu)
  • Crying Tiger Steak slice being dipped in Nam Jim Jaew sauce.
    Crying Tiger Beef with Nam Jim Jaew Sauce
  • A trio of vibrant gyoza sauces Traditional, Miso, and Chinese-style potsticker dumpling sauces come together in minutes, ready to elevate a plate of delicious gyoza to new heights.
    How to Make Gyoza Sauce
  • A drizzle of creamy Japanese sesame dressing levels up any green salad.
    Japanese Sesame Dressing
  • Savory, sweet, and sour seasoned sushi vinegar flows from a squeeze bottle onto a mound of Japanese sushi rice.
    Seasoned Sushi Vinegar
  • Change up your hot sauce routine with this Sichuan chili oil. Loaded with crisp garlic, sesame seeds and chili flakes it comes together in just minutes from a handful of ingredients.
    How to Make Chili Oil (辣椒油)
  • Chilled soba noodles get lifted off a zaru with chopsticks for dipping into soba sauce.
    Cold Soba Noodles With Dipping Sauce
  • Easy homemade ponzu sauce that's perfect for sushi, shabu shabu and salads.
    Japanese Ponzu Sauce
  • This umami-packed seasoned soy sauce or dashi shoyu is infused with katsuobushi and konbu.
    Japanese Seasoning Soy Sauce
  • This creamy Japanese-style sesame wafu dressing is just like the ones at restaurants.
    Sesame Wafu Dressing (Japanese-style dressing)
  • Close up of whisper thin strands of chilled somen noodles being lifted from a bowl of ice water set against a backdrop of vibrant condiments.
    Cold Somen Noodles & Sauce
  • Vanilla Caramel Sauce
  • Steak with Mushroom Sauce (Steak Aux Champignons)
  • This fool-proof Hollandaise sauce recipe is rich and creamy with some lemony zing.
    Perfect Hollandaise Sauce
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