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Oriental Dipping Sauce

Rated as 4.46 out of 5 Stars
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"Serve as a dipping sauce with Asian-inspired dishes. This sauce is terrific with spring rolls or dumplings."
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Ingredients

2 h 5 m servings 35 cals
Original recipe yields 4 servings

Directions

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  1. In a small mixing bowl, combine soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, green onion, water, hoisin sauce, ginger, and sugar. Mix well, add additional hoisin sauce to thicken mixture to your desired consistency if needed. Cover the sauce, and refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours to allow flavors time to blend.
  2. Before serving, pour mixture into a small saucepan and heat. Serve warm.
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Nutrition Facts


Per Serving: 35 calories; 0.9 g fat; 5.6 g carbohydrates; 1.3 g protein; < 1 mg cholesterol; 1031 mg sodium. Full nutrition

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I made this recipe as a dipping sauce for appetizer meatballs. I didn't have any hoisin sauce, so used extra soy sauce. I also used a few dashes of ground ginger and substituted brown sugar fo...

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This was not edible, it was so salty I could have just used soy sauce, it was a waste of time to make it.

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I made this recipe as a dipping sauce for appetizer meatballs. I didn't have any hoisin sauce, so used extra soy sauce. I also used a few dashes of ground ginger and substituted brown sugar fo...

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Wow! This tastes exactly like the dipping sauce that comes with the dumplings from my local Chinese take out place. The stuff is awesome. I used rice wine vinegar in place of the water. I will...

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I loved this recipe, I served it with the Won Ton Snacks recipe I found here too, I did lighten it up with about a tablespoon more water and a dash of rice wine vinegar, I also added a teaspoon ...

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Excellent sauce to serve with Asian appetizers. When I served it with pot stickers at a party, everyone commented on the sauce more than the appetizer.

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Wow Jackie, what a fantastic dipping sauce! I added about five tablespoons of hoisin sauce because I love the stuff and I skipped the sugar as there's enough in the hoisin. Served this with home...

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This dipping sauce is out of this world it's so good and is really terrific for the spring rolls and the dumplings. This would also be good for egrolls and wontons too. This was AWSOME!!!!!!!!!...

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Fantastic dip for spring rolls! We brought home spring rolls from a local restaurant & served them w/ this great sauce. I did decrease the soy some & it was still a bit salty even though I used ...

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A great dipping sauce. Drizzled it on my Oriental Chicken Wraps. Used low sodium soy sauce and didn't bother to heat the sauce before using.

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I also used this with the won ton snacks along with the sweet and sour recipe and some peanut dipping sauce. Excellent sauce! Used rice wine vinegar rather than white. Really tasty!

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