Description
Simple 3-ingredient stir-fry sauce elevates home cooking with bold Asian flavors. Soy sauce, rice vinegar, and honey blend perfectly to create a quick, delicious coating for vegetables and proteins you’ll crave.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 2 tbsps honey or brown sugar
- ¼ cup (60 ml) soy sauce (low sodium recommended)
Instructions
- Blend Sauce Components: Whisk liquid umami enhancer, golden sweetener, and powdery thickening agent in a mixing vessel until achieving a smooth, homogeneous liquid with no granular traces.
- Prepare Protein Canvas: Heat wok or skillet to a sizzling temperature, allowing protein and vegetable medley to develop golden edges and aromatic complexity.
- Integrate Flavor Profile: Pour glossy sauce over heated ingredients, using deliberate circular stirring motions to ensure comprehensive coating and even distribution of culinary essence.
- Develop Sauce Consistency: Monitor sauce transformation as it gradually thickens, creating a luxurious glaze that clings sensuously to each ingredient, signaling peak cooking moment.
- Plate and Present: Immediately transfer the glistening culinary creation onto a bed of steamed grains or tender noodles, presenting a harmonious symphony of textures and flavors designed to captivate the palate.
Notes
- Adjust Sauce Consistency: Control the thickness by gradually adding cornstarch or reducing heat to prevent over-thickening or clumping.
- Balance Flavor Intensity: Taste and modify the umami-sweetener ratio to match personal preference or specific protein choices.
- Prevent Burning: Maintain high heat but watch carefully to avoid scorching, stirring constantly for even sauce distribution and caramelization.
- Customize Dietary Needs: Swap ingredients like using coconut aminos for soy sauce or maple syrup for honey to accommodate gluten-free or vegan requirements.
- Prep Time: 3 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Dinner, Lunch, Appetizer
- Method: Mixing
- Cuisine: Asian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 3
- Calories: 60
- Sugar: 6 g
- Sodium: 600 mg
- Fat: 0 g
- Saturated Fat: 0 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 15 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg