teriyaki sauce

Teriyaki sauce is the sweet-salty glaze people use when they want chicken, fish, tofu or vegetables to pick up a glossy, Japanese-style finish. By our assessment, it does one job very well: it gives quick color, stickiness and a familiar soy-ginger profile without much work. The limit is that it can run sweet, and in a pan it can turn from shiny to scorched if left alone too long. In practice it is a sauce for brushing, tossing and quick marinades, not for subtle cooking. Compared with plain soy sauce, teriyaki sauce is thicker and more ready-made in flavor; compared with homemade glaze, it is less precise but far faster. teriyaki sauce suits weeknight cooking and simple grilling, and it matters most when the dish needs a fast, recognizable finish.