Mentsuyu

Name: Mentsuyu
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: ½ cup mirin; 2 Tbs sake; ½ cup soy sauce; 1 tsp sugar; 2 cups dashi

👥 8 servings

⏱️ 40 minutes

🗣️ English (detected)

category: Sauces & Gravies

counters: Japanese Home Cooking

aka: めんつゆ, mentsuyu, mentsuyu, 麺つゆ, tsuyu, soba tsuyu, noodle dipping sauce, noodle soup base

pairs-with: dashi

slack: forgiving — boil the dashi in at the end and it cooks the smell off, leaving a bottle that tastes of soy alone

step: cool, then bottle

#japanese #dashi #soy #pantry #make ahead #no cook

🥘 Ingredients

1

One bottle that seasons half this shelf: dashi 4 : soy 1 : mirin 1, which is dipping strength.
2

Boil mirin with sake in a small saucepan 1 min , until the raw alcohol smell has gone and what is left smells sweet.
3

Stir soy sauce and sugar into @&( timer and bring it back 1 min , until the sugar has gone.
4

Pour dashi into @&( timer , bring it to the very edge of a simmer 2 min and take it straight off the heat.
5

Cool @&( timer to room temperature 30 min , then bottle it.