Doenjang Sauce
Put some funk into your dance moves with this sweet, sticky, mild, umami-packed sauce. Get your groove on with Doenjang Sauce!
Equipment
- 1 bowl
- 1 spatula
- 1 measuring spoons
- 1 measuring cup
Ingredients
- ½ cup Doenjang paste
- ¼ cup water
- ¼ cup sesame oil preferably toasted
- 2 tablespoons date syrup or other sweetener
- 1 tablespoon garlic crushed
- 2 tablespoons ginger chopped finely
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together in a bowl.
- Mix well.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Doenjang is a fermented soybean product from Korea that has a much stronger and more complex taste when compared with miso. Both are giving the sauce umami, so you really want to use one or the other. Sempio has a vegan doenjang. You can find it online or possibly at a local Asian Market, I bought mine at my local H Mart.
You could replace the doenjang with miso. The flavor profile will be much more mild, but still tasty. If you use miso, consider using red miso.
Other sweeteners can be used, I just like the flavor of the date syrup. Even dry ones like coconut sugar would work well.
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