Hoisin sauce is one of the key in oriental cuisine. Learn how to cook it yourself, and in what dishes it is especially good.
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Hoisin is the eastern counterpart to English "brown sauce" and American barbecue sauce. But he has a significant advantage over them: Hoisin does not clog the taste of the product, but rather makes it richer and opens up new facets.
The sauce has a complex and multifaceted taste with honey tones. The sauce is based on fermented soybeans, rice and wheat, garlic, hot peppers, vinegar and a mixture of Five Chinese spices, consisting of cinnamon, fennel seeds, Sichuan pepper, star anise and cloves.
The sauce is ideal as a marinade for poultry and pork. Without it, it is impossible to cook the main masterpiece of Chinese cuisine - a Peking duck. It will also be great to bake fish with him, especially salmon.
There are many recipes for Hoisin sauce. Of course, they cannot be called 100% accurate, but still some of them are very close to the original.
Option one
- 8 tbsp soy sauce;
- 4 tbsp peanut butter (paste);
- 2 tbsp honey;
- 4 tsp white rice vinegar;
- 0.25 tsp garlic powder;
- 4 tsp sesame oil;
- 40 g of spicy Chinese sauce;
- 0.25 tsp black pepper.
To make the sauce, simply mix all the ingredients in the mixer bowl until smooth.
Option Two, with Orange Juice
- 8 tbsp soy sauce;
- 40 drops of chili sauce;
- 4 tsp vinegar 5%;
- 0.25 tsp garlic powder;
- 2 tbsp orange juice;
- 2 tbsp liquid honey.
The cooking method is the same as in the first embodiment.