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Korean Fried Chicken Sauce

Total Time
1h 6m
17m prep · 49m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Hard
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🌾 Gluten-Free 🥛 Dairy-Free 🥜 Nut-Free ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

This is my take on the classic Korean fried chicken sauce. I like to add lots of green onion and garlic, and not cook this quite as long. The result is a sauce with those ingredients a little more in the flavor profile's forefront. Try to find Korean chili flakes and/or paste if you can. I've used them before and the flavor is great (and obviously more authentic), but if you can't, any hot chili flakes or paste will work.

Ingredients

  • 0.5 cups ketchup
  • 2 greens onions , minced
  • 4 cloves garlic , minced
  • 1 lemon , juiced, or more to taste
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 1 tablespoon chile-garlic sauce , such as sambal
  • 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes , or to taste
  • 0.5 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper , or to taste
  • 0.25 cups water , or as needed
  • 1 pinch salt , or to taste

Instructions

  1. 1

    Whisk ketchup, green onion, garlic, lemon juice, honey, chile-garlic sauce, red pepper flakes, and black pepper together in a saucepan over medium-high heat; add enough water to reach desired sauce consistency. Bring sauce to a simmer; reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until thick and flavors blend, about 5 minutes. Cool to room temperature and season with salt.

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