Mark Bittman

Sweet Garlic Soy Sauce

Preparation info
  • Makes

    ½ cup

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      10 min

Appears in
The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home
The Best Recipes in the World

By Mark Bittman

Published 2005

  • About

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.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup dark soy sauce
  • ⅔ cup palm or brown sugar
  • 2

Method

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