This simple recipe for teriyaki sauce makes about 1 1/2 cups and can be used with any of your Asian-inspired recipes instead of unhealthy bottled versions from the store with toxic additives.
I go through a lot of homemade sauces cooking for my family. I use the easy teriyaki sauce recipe below primarily for marinating chicken.
It is also very useful for making homemade barbecue sauce as well.
Bottled teriyaki sauce from the grocery store has so many additives that it is downright frightening to read the label.
The brands at the healthfood store are, disappointingly, not a whole lot better. For example, the organic brands I’ve examined are either loaded with sugar and/or contain toxic seed oils!
Canola oil, a popular choice in commercial teriyaki sauce brands, is surprisingly STILL considered by some in the health community to be a quality oil.
Nearly all restaurants cook with an olive oil/canola oil blend (25/75). Even when nonGMO, organic, and cold-pressed, canola oil should be actively avoided.
For this reason, skip any bottled sauces or dressings that contain this very misunderstood, unhealthy fat.
My teriyaki sauce recipe below is inspired by the version in Nourishing Traditions Cookbook. My method differs by using ground ginger and garlic powder (quicker for busy Moms!), and uses wheat-free, traditionally fermented, unpasteurized Tamari sauce instead of soy sauce to make it friendly for those healing their gut microbiome.
Use this delicious DIY teriyaki sauce to make this teriyaki chicken recipe with roasted vegetables.
By the way, making your own homemade steak sauce is a good idea too for the same reasons outlined above!
Homemade Teriyaki Sauce
This recipe for teriyaki sauce makes about 1 1/2 cups and can be used for any of your Asian recipes instead of unhealthy bottled versions from the store.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Tamari sauce naturally fermented, unpasteurized
- 1/4-3/4 tsp ground ginger or 1-3 tsp freshly grated
- 3/4-1 tsp garlic powder or 3 cloves, freshly minced
- 2 Tbsp toasted sesame oil
- 2 Tbsp rice vinegar preferably organic
- 2 Tbsp raw honey or date syrup
- 1 Tbsp liquid whey optional
Instructions
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Mix all the ingredients together except the whey in a small glass bowl until well blended.
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If not using the optional whey, the sauce is ready to enjoy immediately.
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If using whey, stir it into the sauce, pour into a one pint mason jar and affix the lid. Leave the jar on the counter overnight to lightly culture it before refrigerating.
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Homemade teriyaki sauce will keep for a couple of weeks without whey added and over a month when this optional ingredient is used.
Recipe Notes
*Use date syrup instead of raw honey if you plan to cook with your homemade teriyaki sauce.
Homemade Teriyaki Sauce – The Healthy Home Economist http://t.co/hPpNCJF
Sarah how do you make your chicken teriyaki?
I would like to know also, Sarah, Is the San J Ok? Mine has alcohol in it.
Not canola oil…OOps I forgot the rest of my reply?
I doubt it. I haven’t found an acceptable bottle of teriyaki sauce!!! They are all full of junky additives and cheap oil that I’ve seen.
Coconut Secret makes Coconut Aminos Teriyaki Sauce, available on Amazon. Maybe it wasn’t available when you posted. The ingredients are: organic coconut sap, sea salt, organic ginger, organic onion, organic garlic, organic cayenne pepper. Sounds pretty healthy to me. 🙂
Awesome .. this is definitely new. Haven’t seen this before.
I’ll post the recipe later this week or early next week. I’ve got it half written up.
Thanks. I love the simple recipe too!
Great timing I was thinking the same thing, wondering how hard it would be to make home made teriyaki. Thanks, great recipe.
Sarah, what’s the difference between the tamari sauce you linked to and, for instance, the San-J brand?
http://www.san-j.com/product_info.asp?id=3
I usually buy the latter in bulk through a buying club to save money.
I didn’t know about the deodorizing of the oil so I’m glad to know it. But I was already avoiding canola for another reason. Pretty much all canola grown in the U.S. is already GMO. It’s even growing wild in some places like Oregon so it’s escaped to the wild and it’s only a matter of time before there is no canola that doesn’t have the GMO pollen. Japan doesn’t allow GMO plants to be grown there but they import GMO canola from Canada for processing. They now have GMO canola growing wild in Japan. Heirloom corn growers are facing the same thing in America. They are finding that heirloom corn is turning up with GMO pollen even when grown in remote places. Baker’s Creek heirloom seed tests their seed and they’ve had this warning in their catalog for the corn for at least the last two years. Grow your heirloom corn in a high tunnel green house or something to help protect your seed. Pandora’s box…but I bet you already knew all of this, Sarah. LOL!
I love teriyaki, but have never made it myself…will give this a try.
So making this teriyaki sauce! http://fb.me/y0oR4VxD
Yum…I love teriyaki sauce. This rcipe sounds like a must try!
Wow! Thanks so much, Sarah! I was just thinking last night how I wish I had a better alternative to store-bought Teriyaki.