Homemade teriyaki sauce.
I know right?!
All you need is 7 ingredients…
…a big-ol-jar and like, 10 minutes. {Okay maybe you need a blender or food processor too}
I already had 95 percent of the ingredients for this {and tomorrows post 🙂 } in my grocery cart when I got to the produce section and found there was only nubs of fresh ginger left… WHAT?! This crap allllllways happens to me!
So I wasn’t about to go back through the store putting stuff back on the shelves… so I just decided to sub with some dry ginger instead of the fresh. Which was good… don’t get me wrong, but I like zee fresh. OH! And then, when I got home I realized I forgot the pineapple juice. I know… I wanted to cry. Instead I took a gamble and used my girls white grape juice… and it wasn’t too shabby. However… I’ll stick to the pineapple juice in the future. It’s just feels right.
Start by adding the fresh garlic to the blender or food processor. I gave it a smash and rough chop before adding it in and pulsing a few times. If you’re using fresh ginger {which I hope you are :)} then peel and roughly chop that too! Then add in the brown sugar, spices and the half cup of tamari.
Blend until all the ingredients are mixed and the sugar dissolved.
Pour it into a large jar along with the pineapple juice, shake and *poof* thurrr you go. This can hang out in your fridge for a loooong time, like a month or two or more! I usually use it up before that long of a time BUT the flavors only deepen the longer it refrigerates!
Wait until you see what I made with this tomorrow!!
Enjoy!
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Homemade Teriyaki Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 cloves garlic, smashed, peeled and roughly chopped
- 2 tablespoons peeled minced fresh ginger
- 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup tamari
- 1/2 tablespoon dry mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
- 2 cups pineapple juice
Instructions
- Place the chopped garlic and ginger in a blender or food processor and pulse.
- Add the brown sugar, tamari, dry mustard and white pepper into the food processor with the garlic and ginger and pulse until combined and the sugar is dissolved.
- Pour the tamari/garlic/ginger mixture into a large jar and add in the juice. Shake and store in the fridge for a month {may be longer!}.
- Note: Soy sauce can be used, but to keep this gluten free use tamari.
- Also white grape juice can be substituted if in a pinch!
Notes
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Who knew?? I can’t wait to see what you make with this!!
Fabulous!! Who needs store bought?
I had NO idea this was so simple. Paul loves teriyaki sauce so I’ll be trying this ASAP!
Love this….. plus it’s free of emulsifiers & additives….and you get to reenact scenes from Cocktail while you shake it up.
HAHA exaaaaactly! 🙂
If this is anything like your bbq sauce… then oh man am I excited!
Can’t wait to try this! I hate store bought sauces anyway!
If you keep giving us recipes like this one, I’m pretty sure noone would ever notice a little mixaroo. 🙂 This sauce sounds really good, I’m always on the look out for good homemade sauces!
What a great idea to make teriyaki from scratch! Love it! Can’t way to try it!
This post made me laugh because I have supermarket experiences very similar to what you describe above.. I find myself in the produce area complaining (to myself) all the time. I also, very frequently, go home without the one thing I went to buy! I chalk it up to “too much stuff going on in my brain.” Sauce looks good, Now I know what to make with the pork in my freezer! Thanks.
I love teriyaki! I’m going to have to try this recipe!
AWESOME! Thank you so much. My husband loves teriyaki sauce and I’d feel better serving him this because you know EXACTLY what’s in it, no preservatives, no high fructose corn syrup. Thanks!
Laurie, I’m so glad that you persevered and made this sauce any way!
Yesterday it took me three tries before getting my picture put into a frame from Ikea, and I refused to cry.
I think that I will always have a jar of this delicious sauce in my fridge!
Love teriyaki sauce! Can’t wait to try this!
I’m allergic to pineapple, any recipe substitution suggestions? I saw that you used white grape juice but I am not a big fan of grape juice. Would OJ work perhaps?
Oh no! Well it may… but maybe a mango juice? If you try it let me know how it turns out 🙂
I’m this close to making this and pouring it all over my face. In slow motion.
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Looks delicious! We are trying it tonight!
Where did you get that cute little bird bowl that your dry ingredients are in?
I’m allergic to pineapples too, and I tend to substitute apple juice for the pineapple juice when making sweet and sour or teriyaki sauces. Its really good, just not as ‘sour-y’ I guess. Its been atleast 15 years since I’ve been able to eat pineapple, so i’m not really sure what flavour it adds other than sweet and tart maybe? But others say apple juice works well in those sauces.
I know what you mean, maybe a little lemon juice? Hmmm maybe I’ll give it a whirl?
Tried this tonight, had to make a few substitutions but nothing drastic. Can’t believe the pineapple juice! Turned out fabulous! Thank you!!
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I had a question: when you refer to Tamari, you mean Tamari soy sauce, right? I just want to make sure. Also, I love your site and recipes, both are just amazing.
Yes! Thank you so much Michael!
Looks delicious! But it says it yields two cups, but there are 2 cups of pineapple juice in it alone… Not counting the tamari sauce and everything else. Which is the typo?
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