If you make your own stir fry sauce..

[SparklyUnicorn]

Would you share the basic recipe please?  Don't need to list amounts, just wondering which ingredients you use.  A recipe/menu plan I'm following says to use a cup of stir fry sauce.  I need to be able to control ingredients so I don't want to buy a prepared sauce.

 

 

[Sarah CB]

A common one I do uses garlic, ginger, soy sauce (or coconut aminoes if I'm avoiding soy), Chinese Five Spice, and sesame oil.

 

I just made a different on the other night with garlic, soy sauce, fish sauce, dried chilies and lime juice.

[SparklyUnicorn]

Awesome thanks! 

[Sneezyone]

My basic stir-fry sauce is soy sauce, sesame oil (a tad), garlic, ginger, and red chile flakes. For teriyaki-ish flavors, I increase the ginger and add brown sugar and pineapple juice. For Chinese flavours, I sub hoisin for soy sauce and leave out the ginger. For Thai flavors, I decrease the soy, eliminate the sesame oil and add fish sauce, lime juice and Mirin. For Vietnamese (my fave) flavors, I use Mirin, white sugar, garlic, fish sauce, lime juice, and garlic-chili paste (no soy sauce) for a basic Nuoc mam. Add a bit of cornstarch if you like thicker sauces.

Edited September 20, 2017 by Sneezyone

[Jean in Newcastle]

Gluten free Tamari sauce (like soy sauce)

 

Ginger paste

 

Water or gf chicken stock

 

Sesame oil

 

Garlic

 

 

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[kewb]

My basic go to:

Bragg's liquid aminos

Water

Sriracha or red chili paste

Honey

Garlic

Ginger

Red pepper flakes

Sesame oil

 

Depending on what I am making I will add fish sauce and/or hoisen sauce

[ScoutTN]

I use soy sauce, chx or beef stock, rice vinegar, sesame oil, a little brown sugar and arrowroot as a thickener.

 

Lots of garlic and ginger, plus some crushed red pepper. Not too much heat, since dh will add Siracha generously to his portion.

Edited September 20, 2017 by ScoutTN

[kiana]

Two glugs of soy sauce, one of rice vinegar, garlic, ginger, cayenne. Gonna start trying some fish sauce too. I'd put in some sesame oil if I hadn't added it to the olive oil I put into the pan in the first place. 

[EmseB]

Fry garlic, ginger, and red pepper flakes in oil, stir fry the stuff in that, then add soy sauce at the very end.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Sometimes I add a bit of mirin (rice wine) as well.

 

I tend to stay away from fish sauce because of the very high sodium content. 

[Familia]

Main Ingredients:

• Soy Sauce. low Na
• Chicken Broth, low Na
• Hoisin Sauce
• Peanut Butter

 

Edited September 20, 2017 by secretgarden

[SparklyUnicorn]

Sometimes I add a bit of mirin (rice wine) as well.

 

I tend to stay away from fish sauce because of the very high sodium content. 

 

Mirin is very difficult to find.  Never saw it in a liquor store and they can't sell liquor of any kind in grocery stores (so not even an Asian market would carry it).

 

I probably could order it on-line.

[MEmama]

Mirin is very difficult to find. Never saw it in a liquor store and they can't sell liquor of any kind in grocery stores (so not even an Asian market would carry it).

 

I probably could order it on-line.

Whole Foods and our natural foods coop sell it. I'll check the local grocery; I'm pretty sure they do too. It's typically found in the Asian section--it's not liquor. Unless NY has extra crazy laws?! Rice vinegar can be substituted at any rate.

 

A favourite super simple sauce (yummy on salads too):

4 Tbs soy sauce/tamari

4 Tbs toasted sesame oil

2 Tbs brown rice vinegar

 

Another:

1/4 cup soy sauce/tamari

1 Tbs toasted sesame oil

1 Tbs sriracha

1 Tbs rice vinegar

1 tsp curry powder

[Jean in Newcastle]

Mirin does have some alcohol content but less than other liquor.  In our state, you could still find it in the Asian section of the grocery store even before it became legal for grocery stores to sell liquor.  But I'm sure that it depends on the state. 

[Cinder]

The dc still living at home don't care for teriyaki flavors so for stir fry I use the sesame chicken sauce from Budget Bytes. I double most of the ingredients except the cornstarch and ginger (dc don't like ginger). I also omit the sesame seeds. I don't follow her directions for the chicken prep--I just do my regular stir-fry with chicken and lots of veggies.

[desertstrawberry5]

Soy sauce, garlic, brown sugar (or whatever), ginger.

[Katy]

My family's favorite is teriyaki: soy sauce, ginger, garlic, brown sugar

[Upennmama]

Some combo of:

 

soy sauce

oyster sauce 

fish sauce

 

for the base, then a sweetener- such as brown sugar, honey, orange juice, white sugar, etc, 

 

then an acid, such as lime juice, rice vinegar or rice wine vinegar, and then I usually throw in things like: ginger or ginger paste, hot chili garlic paste, garlic, scallion, sesame seeds and or sesame oil. 

 

Then I throw in a little cornstarch/water slurry at the end to thicken.