A good sauce with steak strips over rice. Use a good-quality hoisin sauce.
Sweet Hoisin Sauce
Hoisin is a blend of soybeans, garlic, chile peppers, and spices; it serves as the base for this Chinese-inspired barbecue sauce. Five-spice powder, also used extensively in Chinese cooking, is a pungent mixture of ground cinnamon, cloves, fennel, star anise, and peppercorns.
Yield: about 1 cup (serving size: 1 tablespoon)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 17
- Calories from fat: 11%
- Fat: 0.2g
- Saturated fat: 0.0g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.1g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.1g
- Protein: 0.2g
- Carbohydrate: 3.5g
- Fiber: 0.2g
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- Iron: 0.1mg
- Sodium: 108mg
- Calcium: 3mg
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup bottled hoisin sauce
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons sherry
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon five-spice powder
Preparation
- Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl.
Sweet Hoisin Sauce Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Sauces/Condiments
- CONVENIENCE: Make-Ahead, No-Cook, Quick/Easy
- CUISINE: Asian, Chinese
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Calorie, Low Cholesterol, Meatless, Low Saturated Fat
- PUBLICATION: Cooking Light
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