hoisin sauce

www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/420/Hoisin_Sauce12082.shtml

4 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp black bean paste
1 tbsp molasses
2 tsp rice vinegar
1 tsp garlic powder
a few drops of tabasco (to taste)
2 tsp sesame oil
1/8 tsp ground szechwan peppercorn

Put all the ingredients in a small bowl and put in the microwave for 20 seconds then mix.

2 comments to this

sasha said on 07 Jun 2006 at 14:34:59:

I'm a bit worried about a couple of ingredients in this recipe: the garlic powder and the Tabasco, neither of which is usually found in recipes for Chinese food. Did this recipe originate in the USA, by any chance?

hem said on 07 Jun 2006 at 14:44:02:

Possibly- I seem to remember a Ken Hom recipe a lot like it. You could always swap the garlic powder for finely chopped garlic and the tabasco for red chili paste