Recipe: Sweet soy sauce

Use this recipe to create your own Sweet soy sauce (NL: ketjap saus) and combine it with for example noodles.

Ingredients (+/- 800 ml sauce)

• 150 ml Ketjap Manis – Sweet soy sauce
• 1 onion
• 2 cloves of garlic
• olive oil
• 1 tablespoon sambal badjak
• 1 tablespoon soft brown sugar
• 450 ml + 2×100 ml water
• 2x swabbed tablespoons flour

Preparation

1. Squeeze the onion and garlic as fine as possible;
2. Fry this substance in the oil on low heat till it changes color a bit. Don’t let it burn!;
3. While stirring on low heat, add the sambal and soft brown sugar;
4. Now add the main ingredient: the ketjap while still stirring on low heat;
5. Add 450 ml water and warm up till it boils;

Thicken the sauce

Now comes a bit more difficult part, thicken it without lumps. My favourite way to do this is by using flour. To thicken this sauce I do this in two steps. In between check whether the sauce has the right thickness already or when the sauce is still too thin after two passes, add a third pass.

1. Add one swabbed tablespoon flour into a cup;
2. Add 100 ml (hot) water;
3. Stir it as much as possible;
4. Remove any lumps;
5. Add this mix to the sauce
6. Stir and warm up the sauce till it boils;

Now your sweet soy sauce is ready!