Sweet Soy-Garlic Dipping Sauce Recipe

J. Kenji López-Alt
Sweet Soy-Garlic Dipping Sauce Recipe

[Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt]

Update your fried chicken with these no-cook dipping sauces in under 7 minutes »

Read more: Upgrade Your Fried Chicken: 7 No-Cook Dipping Sauces in Under 7 Minutes

  • Yield:makes 1 cup
  • Active time: 5 minutes
  • Total time:5 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup soy sauce
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup rice vinegar
  • 3 medium cloves of garlic, grated on a microplane grater (about 3 teaspoons)
  • 1/4 cup thinly sliced scallions
  • 1/4 cup roughly chopped cilantro
  • 2 teaspoons toasted sesame seed oil

Directions

  1. 1.

    Whisk all ingredients together in a small bowl until sugar is dissolved. Serve with fried chicken.

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Upgrade Your Fried Chicken: 7 No-Cook Dipping Sauces in Under 7 Minutes
Chief Culinary Advisor

J. Kenji López-Alt is the Chief Culinary Advisor of Serious Eats, and author of the James Beard Award-nominated column The Food Lab, where he unravels the science of home cooking. A restaurant-trained chef and former Editor at Cook's Illustrated magazine, his first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science is a New York Times Best-Seller, the recipient of a James Beard Award, and was named Cookbook of the Year in 2015 by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

He's currently raising a daughter by day, writing his second book by night (Now with 10% more science!), and is working on Wursthall, a beer hall in downtown San Mateo which will be open by the end of 2017.

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