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Sweet Garlic Soy Sauce

In Philippine cuisine, dark, fairly harsh soy sauce is favored, but it's often combined with sugar to create a syrupy dressing for vegetables. The added garlic gives this sweet and salty sauce a pleasant kick.This recipe originally accompaniedLumpia Rolls.
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  • Total Time

    10 minutes

Ingredients

Makes 1/2 cup

1/2 cup dark soy sauce
2/3 cup palm or brown sugar
2 garlic cloves, minced
  1. Step 1

    1. Place the soy sauce and sugar in a saucepan and cook over low heat until slightly caramelized and thickened, about 5 minutes.

    Step 2

    2. Remove from the heat and stir in the garlic. Cool and serve. This sauce will keep well, refrigerated, for a couple of days; bring to room temperature if you're using it as a dipping sauce. (If you're cooking with it, you can use it directly from the refrigerator, of course.)

The Best Recipes in the Worldby Mark Bittman. © 2005 by Mark Bittman. Published by Broadway Books. All Rights Reserved. MARK BITTMAN is the author of the blockbusterThe Best Recipes in the World(Broadway, 2005) and the classic bestsellerHow to Cook Everything, which has sold more than one million copies. He is also the coauthor, with Jean-Georges Vongerichten, ofSimple to SpectacularandJean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef.Mr. Bittman is a prolific writer, makes frequent appearances on radio and television, and is the host of The Best Recipes in the World, a 13-part series on public television. He lives in New York and Connecticut.
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  • I used this with the lumpia recipe and I thought it worked well. It was sweet, syrupy and salty. You do not need a lot of it.

    • ritajoyholmberg6443

    • 12/28/2020

  • I would have to agree with you, a very disappointment. Mark I have been to the Philippines and Married on for our Fresh Lumpia we use SWEET GARLIC SAUCE: 1/4 cup all purpose flour 4 cups Chicken stock 1 tsp salt 1/2 can condensed milk 1 head garlic finely chopped petchay • Mix an ingredients except chopped garlic. Boil until not so thick. Remove from heat and add garlic • Spread a little amount of sauce at center of apa

    • davessmith1

    • Pikesville, MD

    • 5/4/2016

  • This was a real disappointment. In fact, the dish was returned to the kitchen to be "fixed" so that we would have dinner. It was way too salty, lacked body, and otherwise was pretty boring.

    • Anonymous

    • 12/16/2009

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