This dark and rich sauce is very simple to make and follows an easy ratio of four ingredients; Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, soy sauce, and honey.
Okonomiyaki Sauce
Course: Sauces, Salsas, and CondimentsCuisine: JapaneseDifficulty: CR – 1A sweet and tangy sauce typically accompanying Okonomiyaki pancakes. But this sauce is still delicious with all sorts of food from noodles, to dumplings, to drizzling on a taco.
The amount of sauce you make is dependent on the measuring size you choose to use for each part. Measured with a tablespoon, a single batch is about 5 fluid ounces, enough to fill a small bottle or jar.
Ingredients
4 parts Worcestershire Sauce
2 parts ketchup
1 part soy sauce
1 part honey
Directions
- Mix all the ingredients in a container until well incorporated.
- Store in a bottle and refrigerate.
My Suggestions
Being a sauce named, quite literally, ‘As you like it’ I would say that the ingredients for this sauce are by no means hard and fast rules. Homebrew this sauce to your heart’s content! Though I would say that the spirit of this recipe is to have sour, tangy, sweet, and salty flavors combined in a dark, rich and slightly viscous texture.
I like to keep it simple on this one. My only substitution is the use of Blue Agave nectar instead of honey. Agave nectar is runnier than honey, so the finished product is thusly less thick than usual. Some recipes call for sugar, brown sugar, or other dry sources of sweetness, but I find that these frequently don’t dissolve entirely leaving a slight graininess to the sauce.
For a Tangier Sauce
Instead of using a bottled ketchup, you can use another tomato sauce, such as the sauce found in canned peeled tomatoes, etc. You can also make your own by cooking down tomato puree, brown sugar, and vinegar (apple cider, rice wine, red wine, white, etc. Which ever sounds or tastes good).
For a Punch of Umami
Soy sauce adds the salt to this recipe, and while the right amount of salt can definitely elevate the taste of a recipe, the soy sauces you can easily find at the local grocery store is just the tip of entire ice shelf. I have a quest for you. Go to your local grocery store and photo the shelf where the soy sauce is located. Next, go to the soy sauce isle at the nearest Asian supermarket. The soy sauce bounty will drop your jaw. Soy sauce is a wet fermented soy bean derivative, and there are as many brews as there are brews of brewskies. I’m fairly particular to darker soy sauces that have been brewed with mushrooms as an additional flavor profile. You can swap a standard soy sauce, or a low-sodium soy sauce for one of these darker mushroom sauces for that added umami.
Let me know your thoughts! I’d love to hear from you and find out if you loved this recipe, changed something or added ingredients. And don’t forget to turn your quest in to the quest giver!