What is Mentsuyu Sauce?
Mentsuyu sauce is a soup base used in Japanese cooking. It is made from soy sauce, mirin, sake, and bonito flakes (dried skipjack tuna). It is a dark brown color and thin like soy sauce. It is used as a flavoring in many dishes from meat, tofu to vegetables. The flavors are intensely salty and umami with a very mild ocean taste.
Ingredients
Soy sauce is a liquid condiment and seasoning made from fermented soybeans. Traditionally it was been mad ...
Mirin is a condiment used in East Asian cuisine and is a type of rice wine with a higher sugar content an ...
Sake is an alcoholic beverage made from rice and differs slightly from rice wine. Sake is made by ferment ...
Bonito flakes are tissue paper thin flakes of fermented skipjack tuna. The color of the flakes are a pale ...