Ponzu Sauce

In addition to many of the basic dipping sauce ingredients—soy sauce, mirin, bonito flakes, and konbu—Ponzu Sauce contains a large amount of lemon juice. In Japan, yuzu, a very sour lemon, is used, so recipes adapted for American readers usually call for a combination of lemon and lime juice.

In Japan, Ponzu Sauce is served as a dipping sauce for raw, very firm–fleshed fish that are sliced very thinly and traditionally served in a rosette pattern. (Fugu, the blowfish known to be fat