What kind of teriyaki sauce do teriyaki restaurants use?!
Answers: I can never find a sauce in the stores that tastes like the kind that teriyaki restaurants use.
Traditionally, teriyaki sauce consists of only three ingredients: soy sauce, sugar, and mirin (a sweet Japanese rice wine). Most modern recipes also include corn starch or some other thickening agent. In addition, bottled sauces usually include extraneous ingredients such as chopped garlic, minced ginger, sesame seeds, or pepper.
If you want to make a restaurant-style teriyaki, simmer 2 cups of full-sodium soy sauce, 1 and a half cups of white sugar, and 6 tablespoons of mirin on the stove. If you can't find mirin, you can substitute sake or dry white grape wine and toss in a little extra sugar to compensate. To enhance the flavor, you may find it nice to add 1 tablespoon each of garlic and ginger (this is arbitrary, but I like it). If you want the sauce to be thicker, put 2 teaspoons of cornstarch in 1 tablespoon of water and mix it with your finger, then stir the starch mixture into the sauce. When the sauce is reduced to the thickness that you like it, pour it over the cooked meat and you're finished! I garuntee that you'll like it better than the bottled sauces. =)
Make your own
* 1/2 cup soy sauce
* 1/2 cup *mirin (sweet rice wine) (soy sauce : mirin = 1:1)
* 2 tbsp sugar
The important ingredient is mirin. Note that some also add chopped garlic or ginger but that is not in the traditional basic recipe
I make my own. cook brown sugar, white wine, soy sauce in a pan, I let it cook for awhile to cook the alcohol from the wine. add fresh grated ginger,fresh pressed garlic. It keeps forever in the fridge. as far as amounts I just make it to my taste.
Very Hi sodium, go to local market, buy low...