Chinese Style Dumpling Garlic Sauce
Tasty, restaurant quality Chinese Style Dumpling Garlic Sauce is just a few minutes away with this quick and easy recipe.
I’m not really sure what it is, but I love this sauce. It’s so tasty. So much so that when ordering take out, I would purposely order the steamed dumplings just for this sauce.Problem is, I didn’t really know how to make it. Admittedly the flavors of the Far East are some of my favorites, but I lack the knowledge of how to make them. This had to change.
The Inspiration
You see, quite close to the beltline in Raleigh, NC is a wonderful Asian market that has just about everything. From pottery and fresh baked goods to live fish, the Grand Asia Market has it all. I love just wandering through this market discovering new foods and flavors and fumbling with them when I get home. Some of our standard purchases when we stop by the market is dumplings, steam buns and assorted shumai. One of the nights following our visit we would have a family night of Dim Sum. As I said above, what was missing from these family nights was the Dumpling Garlic Sauce. From longing comes inspiration to learn.
Learn I would. Through some trial and error the below recipe is what I have been searching for with having to order it. It only takes a few ingredients and a few minutes (to my surprise).
The Ingredients
- Soy Sauce
- Lite Soy Sauce
- Water
- Rice Wine Vinegar
- Sugar
- Garlic
- Sesame Oil
- Scallions
In a small sauce pan over medium high heat chow the garlic in the sesame oil to toast the garlic just a bit. Once the garlic is toasted to your liking add the sugar and liquids. Bring sauce to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar. Remove from heat. Once the sauce has cooled, add the sliced scallions for added flavor.
Whether it’s a night of Chinese take out or we are enjoying a family night of Dim Sum you will see a bowl of this sauce getting passed around the table.
Chinese Style Dumpling Garlic Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Soy Sauce
- 1/4 cup Lite Soy Sauce
- 1/4 cup Water
- 1 Tbsp Sesame Oil
- 1/4 cup Rice Vinegar
- 6 each Garlic Cloves Crushed
- 2 Tspn Sugar
- Scallions
Instructions
- In a small saucepan over medium high heat add the sesame oil, bring to temp and then add crushed garlic. Allow garlic to chow (toast) just a bit.
- Once garlic develops color, add the two soy sauces, rice wine vinegar, water and sugar. Bring to boil to dissolve sugar and remove from heat.
- Once sauce has cooled, add sliced scallions.
