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[podling]

Yesterday I was really tired. And the theme song from the Gummi Bears cartoon kept running through my head.

My coworker has told me that the sauce I made for my stir fry had too many ingredients and was in fact many sauces mashed together. I disagree. Here's the listing, answer the poll after reading...

Soy sauce
Water
Lemon vinegar
Sugar
Sesame oil
Grated ginger
Wasabi powder

[Poll #752218]

Comments

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I was expecting a long list of ingredients... nothing resembling multiple sauces there!

I'm not a fan of wasabi, so I'd leave that out. I probably wouldn't use sugar (carmelizing and all that,) but that's a matter of taste. Maybe it balances out the wasabi?

I use tamari, rice vinegar, ginger, garlic, and onion, generally with canola oil, although I've used sesame oil at times.

A soy/tamari, a vinegar, and an oil are must-haves. The ginger is also a must, but the other two - garlic and onion vs. wasabi and sugar - are spice and flavor. Those are things I might vary from time to time, to come up with different tastes; they are relatively minor and certainly don't turn it into another sauce.

The water is the only thing I'd truly consider extraneous in that - generally, you get (more than) enough water from the veggies themselves - but water on its own isn't enough to count as another sauce.

I'll have to remember to bring a selection of real, actual sauces and spices to add flavor to what must be a very bland menu if I ever eat at their restaurant! (Hmmm, I bet they'd make you pay extra to have two salad dressings... oil and vinegar... =)