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What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
When I make my own (and it generally comes out tasting pretty damn close), I use: soy sauce, mirin, minced garlic, honey, sesame oil, and cornstarch as needed.
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
I just made my own version based off of Claypot's version, and it turned out really well!!
1/2 cup Kikkoman soy sauce
1 1/2 cup vegetable broth
2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp white pepper
1/2 tsp garlic salt
2 tbps (rounded) flour
I just heated up the broth and soy sauce, added everything except for the flour, and then slowly added the flour bit by bit while whisking quickly and kept whisking till it thickened. Even my (picky) husband liked it!!! Now I'm gonna put it on my veggie and seafood stir-fry :D
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
I'm so trying this tonight!! Thank you all you guys!
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
All of these recipes sound so professional! I'm not sure if the $5 special uses anything exotic, though. Soy sauce, cornstarch, some kind of oil, and definitely garlic.
There was a place that I used to eat at on 7th Avenue and 30-something Street in NYC (they've since closed). Their brown sauce was the most addictive. I used to buy some on Friday nights to take home and eat on Saturday.
Their brown sauce probably had a Herculean amount of MSG in it. Whenever you ate there your heartbeat would race, you'd be agitated easily, and your energy level would increase. I ate there for a month straight one time and had to withdraw myself slowly.
Scott
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
Hi Grace - thanks for linking to me. I checked out the other recipes, and will tell you that beef broth is definitely not in the typical Chinese brown sauce because Chinese restaurants don't usually have beef broth. What they might use is chicken broth or stock. Other than that, it's pretty much soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, starch, some sesame oil, some white pepper, and Chinese rice wine depending on the dish. Dark soy sauce might be added too if you want color. Do check out my recipe and see if you like it. :)
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
white pepper is in there.
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
@AnaPowell I generally assume that brown foods, when ordered in restaurants, aren't vegetarian.
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
I forgot one other item - several people mentioned using chicken stock - I use homemade beef stock made with carmelized onionis and roasted garlic as well as the mushroom soy.....
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
I use DARK soy - more accurately - Mushroom Soy - in my "brown" sauce.
It's darker and richer and we like the flavor of it. I took a class - a lot of years ago - from Ken Hom and he introduced us to a lot of ingreients that I hadn't used before.
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
@ wookie...."savorier"....somehow I know exactly what you you mean.
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
@wookie- Amen! I'm also pretty sure that those little Chinese donuts are also laced with crack...only sweeter and greasier
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
I want to thank you for this post - I was just wondering this the other day!
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
Good to know that that sauce probably isn't vegetarian!
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
As with most Asian food that I consume, ignorance is really bliss. I don't know what it is, but if I'm still alive, please don't tell me (and yes, I am from Southeast Asia, so this isn't a racist statement).
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
Mine is very similar to tideandthyme's! I just do two parts broth to one part soy sauce (low sodium for me, though), lots of minced garlic, and 1 TB of cornstarch mixed with a few drops of water. If I feel like spicing it up I'll add Sriracha (so incredible); to make it a little sweeter I'll add some honey or apple/orange juice, whatever I have on hand. But I think that base is pretty versatile.
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
You're all wrong. It's crack, only savorier.
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
I hope this clears things up a bit:
"GLOP: A versatile substance with a pivotal role in the cuisine known as
Chinese-American, where it functions as a binding, flavoring, and
lubricating agent all in one. Not a juice, not a sauce, not a gravy,
not a starch, and not quite an emulsion, it becomes an element of
presentation with the addition of red food coloring."
from The Devil's Food Dictionary: A Pioneering Culinary Reference Work Consisting Entirely of Lies (Frogchart Press)
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
My mom taught me it's soy sauce, garlic, cornstarch slurry to thicken. Very simple. Sometimes I add other stuff to mix it up.
@ mh330 - it's just cornstarch slurry added to the juices of whatever dish as it's cooking.
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
SUCH a good question, and i'm so happy that there are really good answers listed here. In a similar vein, does anyone know what's in the white sauce (usually used in lighter dishes with shrimp and vegetables)???
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
I make mine with soy, hoisin sauce, cornstarch, chickenbroth.
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
Valerie's recipe is close to what we use, and seems to be spot-on.
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
Serious question: I admit to enjoying egg fu yung sometimes. Some restaurants top it with the standard brown sauce being discussed here, others with something lighter brown in color and kind of resembling a milk gravy. I much prefer the latter. Anybody know how to make it?
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
...Oh and I left out a pint of rice wine in the base recipe, thought there was something else.
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
I work at a few chinese restaurants when I was a little younger. "brown sauce" is basically a play on watered(brothed, more accurately)-down soy sauce.
The Chinese restaurants I worked at would pre-combine at least a 5-gallon bucket of it at a time. It starts out with 1/3 Kikkoman soy sauce and 2/3 chicken stock. Between a cup and a pint of sugar and MSG (or a substitute) is added to each 5 gallon bucket along with about a cup of minced garlic. That should give you a good place to start and I don't recall it having any other ingredients (I didn't cook nor make the sauce, but being a food fan at heart, I would watch the cooks make it).
When they actually cook up the dish, pre-mixed brown sauce is heated up and thickened with corn or potato starch.
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
Just try different combination and ration of ingredients you already have, the base is comprised of mostly soy sauce, sugar, oyster sauce, broth, rice wine and a bit of cornstarch. or at least the version I make at home does. but try add different stuff to get the taste you're familiar with. Just experiment and taste to adjust to your likings
What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?
It's a mix of soya and oh, yah, "brown". Is it the same "brown" in English brown sauce? Best not to ask...
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When I make my own (and it generally comes out tasting pretty damn close), I use: soy sauce, mirin, minced garlic, honey, sesame oil, and cornstarch as needed.