California Farm Fresh Thick Sweet Soy Sauce: Ketjap Manis

Name: California Farm Fresh Thick Sweet Soy Sauce: Ketjap Manis
Total time: 900 s
Yield: 2 people, makes 2 cups
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups regular dark soy sauce like dark Kikkoman (or see my recipe to brew from scratch); 1 cup molten and slightly burned palm or brown sugar; 1/2 cup warm water

Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman

California, United States

My favorite sauce, a drop or two on fried rice, omelettes, noodles. We make this with regular soy sauce and sugar. Home made, no artificial coloring agents, preservatives, thickening agents added! The flavor is from melting, carmelizing and almost burning half the sugar before adding the other ingredients. Fermented soy sauce stays fresh for at least three years.

Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman

California, United States

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Ingredients

15 minutes

2 people, makes 2 cups

1 1/2 cupsregular dark soy sauce like dark Kikkoman (or see my recipe to brew from scratch)
1 cupmolten and slightly burned palm or brown sugar
1/2 cupwarm water
Cost: sugar $1, soy sauce $2, pint bottle $3

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Steps

15 minutes

1

In cast iron sauce pan, at medium heat, melt cup of sugar in 1/2 cup of dark soy sauce, 5 minutes, then carmelize, 5 minutes, then brown till smelling slightly burned like coffee, 5 minutes. Cool, add 1/2 cup of dark soy sauce, stir vigorously to dissolve molten sugar into soy sauce.
2

Taste. Add more soy sauce if too sweet. Add 1/2 cup water if too salty. When perfect, label and seal in bottle.

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Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman

on August 27, 2022 03:28

California, United States

I teach people at the farmers market to grow small scale fruits and vegetables. My grandparents and parents taught me growing, cooking and preserving home grown fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and fish. I got certified by the University of California Master Gardener Program in 2005. I try to bring out the original flavor of ingredients, then add layers of spices, herbs and flavorings that enhance, not distort the taste. These are the global, organic and vegan family recipes we use.