Homemade Teriyaki Sauce

Teriyaki is actually a cooking technique used in Japanese cuisine in which foods are broiled or grilled with a glaze of soy sauce, mirin, and sugar. So I never thought of making teriyaki at home. But once when I googled about teriyaki I came to know about American style teriyaki sauce which can be easily made at home. I was astonished by the result. The sauce came out so good that it can used to make chicken or any meat or vegetables. Who doesn't like nice sweet thick teriyaki sauce you get from your favorite takeout joint? It needs only a few basic ingredients and very less time.
The original recipe uses ground ginger and garlic powder. But I used fresh ginger and garlic.

How to use this sauce?

Cook or grill meat or vegetables. Heat the teriyaki sauce in a pan add the cooked vegetables or meat and mix well till sauce well coated. Enjoy.

Check here for teriyaki fried cauliflower recipe.

Teriyaki Sauce Recipe

Preparation time:5 minute

Cooking time: 10 minute

Yields:1 cup sauce

Recipe source:here

Ingredients Needed:

1⁄4 cup soy sauce
1 cup water
1⁄2 tsp minced garlic
1⁄4 tsp minced ginger
5 table spoon packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon honey
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1⁄4 cup cold water

Method:

Mix soy sauce, minced ginger, garlic, brown sugar, honey and water in a sauce pan and cook on medium heat for 1-2 minutes.

Mix together cornstarch and cold water without lumps and add this to the pan.

Cook for about 4-5 minutes until sauce thickens.

If you want you can add water to make sauce thin as per your liking.


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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies:These are gorgeous looking cookies, I fell in love with chocolate crinkle cookies by the look of it and right away decided to bake some. Chocolate crinkle cookies are best addition as a holiday cookie and here I am baking these in February 😉.

Chocolate crinkle cookies are basically made by the cookie dough ball coated with icing sugar and then baked hence giving them a crinkle look. It has a quite soft and moist cake like texture inside and a crisp texture outside.

Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Preparation Time:10 min
Baking time:10-15 min
Yields: 10-12 large cookies

Ingredients needed: 

All Purpose Flour  – 1 cup
Unsweetened Cocoa Powder- 1/2 cup
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Baking Powder – 1 tsp

Sugar – 2/3 cup
Unsalted Soft Butter – 1/4 cup

Eggs – 2

Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp

Confectioners Sugar / Icing Sugar – 1/2 cup 

Method:

Take the dry ingredients - flour, salt baking powder and cocoa in a bowl and sieve or mix together and set aside.

Cream together butter and granulated sugar in a bowl til light and fluffy using a  handmixer.
Add in egg and again beat with the handmixer.
Add in vanilla essence and mix well.
Add in the flour mix and mix well using a spatula to form a lumpy mix.
Cover well with a cling wrap and refrigerate for at least 2-3 hrs.
Preheat oven to 350F and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Make even sized balls from the dough using a tablespoon or ice cream scoops and cover generously with icing sugar.
Bake for 10-15 minutes till cookies are done.
Store in an airtight container after cooling down.

How to check crinkle cookies are done?

The cooking of the crinkle cookies cannot be said by look of it. Cookies can be overdone within minutes.The crinkle cookies are done when the top crack open and when you touch lightly in the center no imprints remain.

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Lemon Cake

Lemon Cake: I always like the taste of lemon. So a lemon flavored cake is always in my bucket list, but never actually did it for no reason. Last week we happened to buy a bunch of fresh lemon from our nearby farmers market. So finally I made lemon cake. This lemon cake is so moist with fragrance of fresh lemon and the tanginess from lemon zest. It is so perfect for me. Hope you all like it.

Lemon Cake

Preparation Time:10 min
Baking time:40 min
Serves:5-6

Recipe source:here

Ingredients needed: 

For Cake:
1 1/3 cup All purpose flour
2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
4 tbsp milk
1 tbsp lemon zest
11/2 tsp Baking powder
pinch of salt
1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence(Optional)

For Syrup:
2 tbsp lemon juice
3/4 cup confectioners sugar

For Glaze:
1 tbsp lemon juice
3/4 cup confectioners sugar

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 350F.
Grease the baking pan(I used loaf pan) with butter and dust with flour and set aside.
Sieve or mix together he dry ingredients - flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
Cream butter and sugar using a hand mixer until light and fluffy.
Add eggs one at a time and beat well.
Add vanilla essence and lemon zest and mix well.
Fold in  half of the flour mixture then add milk and finish off with rest of the flour mixture.
Pour the batter to the prepared baking pan and bake for 40 mins  till a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
For the syrup:
Add lemon juice and sugar in a sauce pan and whisk in low heat til the sugar dissolves.
As soon as the cake is out of the oven make holes with toothpick and soak the cake in this syrup by brushing it all over the cake.
For the glaze:
Mix lemon juice and sugar til smooth and white.
Drizzle or spread the glaze on top of the cake.

Notes:

Adjust the amount of sugar and lemon juice in the syrup and glaze as per your taste.