Potsticker dipping sauce

[randomstasis]

Someone on my friendslist said "Happy Chinese New Year! It's the year of the dragon. This calls for potstickers. :D

Comments

[ladymurmur]

Thank you! I've been looking for a good potsticker sauce, since our local place never includes enough. :-)

[coffeeforone]

I usually add a dash of sriracha sauce too :)

[randomstasis]

LOL, a lot of people like that, but I always think the ginger and garlic add enough heat;)

[randomstasis]

You're welcome! They never do, do they? Although the main reason I started making this one is my favorite place changed hands and started serving a really inferior sauce, mostly just soy with chili paste:( so I make this, really close to the one I loved in Japan, and now my friends all ask for it when we make potstickers.

[panduh]

[randomstasis]

You're welcome! If you like the sweeter polynesian sauce, you might want to add more vinegar, or use the seasoned kind. This is something to tweak to your own taste, for sure.

[kamaliitaru]

Oh yum. This is close to mine, but a little different, so I will have to try.

[randomstasis]

Ooh, what's yours like? (Sometimes I mash the sesame oil into the garlic and ginger to make it more pervasive, but that doesn't work so well portioning it out- some people get more, and some get almost none:()

[kamaliitaru]

I really like ginger, so I use less than you, but I shred it with my microplane. I use the same amount of garlic, but shred that on microplane as well. Sometimes I use a roast garlic sesame oil I make myself if I don't want the raw garlic taste.

And, since I can't seem to stay away from the local Asian markets (one Japanese, and one Chinese), sometimes I use black soy sauce, and sometimes I use Chinese Rice wine.