Asian Pear Dipping Sauce

Name: Asian Pear Dipping Sauce
Yield: Makes About 2½ Cups
Cuisine: Korea
Ingredients: ½ cup soy sauce; 1 small Asian pear, peeled, cored, and finely chopped; ¼ cup sugar; ½ cup sake or dry sherry; 4 scallions, both white and green parts, trimmed and finely chopped; ¼ cup finely chopped onion; 2 tablespoons sesame seeds, toasted

Korea

Preparation info

Makes About
2½ Cups

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Barbecue Bible

By Steven Raichlen

Published 1998

About

Readers of this book will know of my unbridled enthusiasm for Korean cooking—a cuisine, I might add, that is grossly underappreciated in the West. This sauce reflects the Korean penchant for combining sweet, salty, and nutty flavors in a single dish. Serve it with any Korean meat dish.

Ingredients

½ cup soy sauce
½ cup sake or dry sherry
¼

Asia
Korea
Sauce
Vegan

Method

Combine the soy sauce, sake, sugar, pear, scallions, onion, and sesame seeds in a medium-size bowl and stir until thoroughly mixed and the sugar dissolves. Divide the sauce among as many small bowls as there are people, so each person has his own for dipping, and serve at once.