Tentsuyu

Name: Tentsuyu
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons mirin (sweet cooking wine); 3 tablespoons mirin (sweet cooking wine); 2 cups ichiban dashi (first fish stock); 2 cups ichiban dashi (first fish stock); 5 tablespoons usukuchi shoyu (light-colored soy sauce); 5 tablespoons usukuchi shoyu (light-colored soy sauce); 1½ tablespoons shoyu (soy sauce); 1½ tablespoons shoyu (soy sauce); 1½ tablespoons sugar

Tempura Dipping Sauce

Preparation info

2⅔ cups
sauce

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Japanese Kitchen

By Hiroko Shimbo

Published 2000

About

Tentsuyu is a dipping sauce that is served with piping-hot fried foods, such as tempura. Dipping hot foods in tentsuyu cools them a little, and at the same time provides extra flavor. This sauce is served at room temperature.

Ingredients

3 tablespoons mirin (sweet cooking wine)
2 cups ichiban dashi (first fish stock)

Asia
Japan
Sauce
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

In a medium pot, bring all the ingredients to a boil. Remove the pot from the heat, and let the sauce cool to room temperature.

You can refrigerate the sauce for up to three days, covered. Before using it, heat it through and let it cool to room temperature.