Japanese Restaurant sauce?

Japanese Restaurants use a certain sauce for Teriyaki dishes, does anyone know the recipe?

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(The chicken part)



It's not grossery store sauce and it's not in the yucky TV dinners.Japanese Restaurant sauce?
The dish from the first picture doesn't look like teriyaki sauce, but the second one and the third one (with the chicken) is. Here goes:



In a saucepan, mix equal parts (1/8 cup) soy sauce (use Kikkoman - you can find at any grocery store), mirin (sweet sake), sake (rice wine) and white sugar. Bring to a simmer for about 2 minutes. Add a pinch of salt. In a small bowl, mix together 1 - 2 tbsp cornstarch with 2 - 3 tbsp cold water; mix to disperse. Then slowly add to the saucepan, stir until sauce thickens. The amount of cornstarch is a range depending on how thick or thin you want the sauce.



On the third picture, to the left of the chicken with the sauce is tonkatsu - it's basically a pork fillet, breaded with Japanese breadcrumbs called panko. The sauce for that is very easy - equal parts of catsup and worchestire sauce mixed together. You can add sesame seeds - whole or crushed to make it more interesting.
The recipe below makes fantastic teriyaki chicken or steak. My Mum did Japanese cooking classes in the early 90s in Sydney and got this recipe then, we have been cooking it ever since - yum!



Teriyaki Chicken or Steak

录 C soy sauce

录 C sake

录 C mirin

1 tbsp sugar



Place the sauce ingredients in a saucepan, stir over heat to dissolve sugar, then simmer and reduce by about one third.

Heat a frypan and lightly grease with oil. Add the meat and pan fry on both sides. Add the teriyaki sauce, it will bubble up. Continue to cook and turn the meat once or twice to coat with sauce as it continues to reduce, until thick and sticky.

Slice the meat into fingers and place on chinese cabbage on a serving plate and pour some of the sauce over.Japanese Restaurant sauce?
Is authentic and each dish has it's own defined sauce, not easy to whip up one of their sauces, without the proper ingredients.



Chris