Hoisin sauce is a thick, pungent sauce commonly used in Chinese cuisine as a glaze for meat, an addition to stir fries, or as dipping sauce. It is darkly colored in appearance and sweet and salty in taste.
Traditionally hoisin sauce is made with fermented black soy beans. Other common ingredients in this sweet and sour Asian condiments are - vinegar, sugar or molasses or honey, garlic, sesame oil, chilies. Molasses or honey or caramelized sugar gives this sauce its natural dark color and sweet bite.
Hoisin sauce is very commonly used in Chinese or Vietnamese cuisines.
Mix equal parts soy sauce, molasses, vinegar with 1 teaspoon each of garlic powder, chili powder and sesame oil to make a homemade hoisin sauce.
