Making your own Homemade Teriyaki Sauce is incredibly easy, fast, and can be customized to your own taste!
Guys. Did you know you can make your own Homemade Teriyaki Sauce?! Our homemade condiment world has just been changed for the better.
Homemade and from scratch cooking often seems like a daunting under taking. Especially those weekdays when I’m gone 6 am to 6 pm at night and come home to laundry, cleaning, and often times both Dan and I have work we need to do at home. But then there are recipes like this. It doesn’t get much easier than this to be able to cut out another processed, bottled condiment and opens up a whole new world of homemade deliciousness to us!
Who knew teriyaki sauce was made up of such simple ingredients!
They’re all just added to a pan,
and then brought to a boil. 
That’s it. That’s all and you have yourself some Homemade Teriyaki Sauce!Now you can add teriyaki sauce to your list of condiments from scratch! All done in 10 minutes and it can be customized to your taste. I prefer less sweet teriyaki sauce so this is a little less sweet, but you can totally add another tablespoon of sugar to make it a little sweeter. Totally customizeable!
Stay tuned for recipe I use this in! Now I’m off to fold more laundry. 😉
Homemade Teriyaki Sauce
Ingredients
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon minced ginger
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup loosely packed light light brown sugar*
- 3 tablespoons mirin
- 1 1/2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch mixed in 1/4 cup of water
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a medium sauce pan on medium low.
- Bring to a boil and then turn to low and let simmer for 4 minutes.
- Transfer to a mason jar or airtight container or use immediately. Store in fridge for up to a week.
Just made this and it seized up. No good.
I’m so sorry to hear this! Oil based sauces can sometimes break when they get too hot so when you brought it to a boil you didn’t then immediately turn it down to a simmer, that could have broken it. Sorry again that this happened – it’s frustrating when a sauce breaks.
I am considering making this with Coconut Palm sugar instead of Brown Sugar as it has less of a negative impact than regular sugar when it comes to diabetics. What are your thoughts? It isn’t sugar free, obviously, but honey is a natural sugar and coconut palm is a better alternative (at least in baking) when brown sugar is called for.
Hi JR! This sounds like a GREAT idea. I haven’t used coconut palm sugar much but I’m pretty sure it has a really similar flavor to brown sugar so it should work out fine! Please let me know how it goes!
Homemade teriyaki sauce is so good! I need to try your recipe!
Love teriyaki sauce, definitely need try this. Especially as it means I can make it gluten free!