Homemade Hoisin Sauce is full of flavor and is used in many Chinese/Asian dishes. It can be used as a stir fry sauce, a sauce to slather on meats, as a dipping sauce and so much more.
This homemade hoisin sauce will make any dish more flavorful with salty, tangy and sweet.
What is Hoisin Sauce?
Hoisin sauce is an Asian Sauce, that’s very fragrant with a strong flavor. It has the perfect balance between salty and sweet. It is used in Asian dishes for marinades, basting, stir-fry sauces, and dipping sauces.
It is sometimes called a Chinese BBQ Sauce because it is used in so many things and is usually the key ingredient that gives the dish the most flavor. It tastes a little bit like our traditional American BBQ sauce but has a more salty, less tangy flavor.
It’s traditionally made with fermented soybeans (or black bean paste) and can have molasses to sweeten it and Chinese Five Spice for seasoning. But I never have these ingredients on hand!
This doesn’t taste exactly like a traditional authentic hoisin sauce taste with fermented soybean Hoisin Sauce, but the flavor profile is pretty close. It’s yummy salty, sweet and is perfect for a Hoisin Sauce!
Ingredients in Hoisin Sauce
For my Hoisin Sauce I use Peanut Butter (in place of fermented soybeans or Black Bean Paste), honey, cider vinegar, garlic powder, garlic salt, brown sugar, sesame seed oil, sriracha, black pepper, and ground ginger.
This sauce is easy to make. Just add all the ingredients to a small bowl and whisk until fully incorporated! You can add or eliminate seasonings to your liking.
Uses for Hoisin Sauce
I use this Hoisin Sauce recipe for my stir-fry’s, lettuce wraps, my General Tsos chicken recipe and as a dipping sauce for my Egg Rolls! This Hoisin Sauce is great as a meat marinade or as a glaze for meat!
This recipe makes about 3/4 cups Hoisin Sauce.
For some other delicious Asian Inspired recipes try my : Sweet and Sour Chicken, my Mongolian Chicken, Mongolian Beef and Broccoli, Firecracker Chicken, Easy Chicken Stir Fry, Chicken Broccoli Ramen Stir Fry and my Egg Rolls!
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Hoisin Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 2 1/2 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tbsp creamy peanut butter
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 1/2 tbsp cider vinegar
- 1/2 tsp sriracha
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp garlic salt
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/8 tsp sesame seed oil
- 1/8 tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Mix/Whisk all of the ingredients together. (Whisk vigorously, as it takes a minute to completely blend.)
- This can be used for Lettuce Wraps, stir-frys, dipping sauce, basting meat and all types of Chinese-American dishes like my General Tsos chicken recipe.
- Store the Hoison Sauce in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.
Nutrition information is automatically calculated and should only be used as an approximation.
