Sweet Aromatic Soy Sauce

Name: Sweet Aromatic Soy Sauce (Fu Zhi Jiang You 復制醬油)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: ½ tsp Sichuan pepper; ½ star anise; 3 tbsp brown sugar; 10 g piece of ginger, crushed slightly; ⅓ cinnamon stick or a piece of cassia bark; 100 ml light or tamari soy sauce; ½ tsp fennel seeds

Fu Zhi Jiang You 復制醬油

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Every Grain of Rice

By Fuchsia Dunlop

Published 2012

About

This sweetened, spiced soy sauce is the secret ingredient in the glorious, garlicky dressing used for Sichuanese Wontons, as well as salady ingredients such as cucumber and cooked broad beans. It’s easy to make and keeps indefinitely.

Ingredients

100 ml light or tamari soy sauce
⅓ cinnamon stick or a pie

Asia
China
Hangzhou
Sauce
Beijing
Spicy
Christmas

Method

Put the soy sauce into a saucepan with 200 ml water and bring to a boil. Add the spices and ginger, reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes.

Add the sugar and stir to dissolve. You should end up with about 100