Sweet Soy-Garlic Dipping Sauce Recipe

J. Kenji López-Alt
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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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J. Kenji López-Alt Chief Culinary Advisor

J. Kenji López-Alt is a stay-at-home dad who moonlights as the Chief Culinary Consultant of Serious Eats and the Chef/Partner of Wursthall, a German-inspired California beer hall near his home in San Mateo. His first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (based on his Serious Eats column of the same name) is a New York Times best-seller, recipient of a James Beard Award, and was named Cookbook of the Year in 2015 by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Kenji's next project is a children’s book called Every Night is Pizza Night, to be released in 2020, followed by another big cookbook in 2021.

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