Tonkatsu Sauce

[Dave the Cook]

Tonkatsu Sauce

Marlene reported about this on her Christmas Blog.

Marlene's notes:

A word about the sauce. I've been making a ketchup based sauce which we liked. Dave the Cook persuded me to try a new sauce and in keeping with experiment week, I agreed. In a word, wow.

This sauce is spicy and very different from the the sauce I usually make. It was an instant hit in the house. I had doubts when I saw the ingredients, but it was totally awesome.

• 1/4 c chopped, dried apple slices
  
• 1/4 c chopped onion
  
• 1/4 c minced fresh ginger
  
• 1 tsp vegetable oil
  
• 1/4 c raisins, soaked in mirin or dry sherry to cover
  
• 1/2 c mirin, or 1/4 C dry sherry plus 1/4 C white wine
  
• 1 c soy sauce
  

1. Saute the apple, onion and ginger in the oil until soft but not browned.

2. Add the mirin (or sherry-wine mixture) and reduce by half. (It will

look almost like syrup.)

3. Turn everything (don't forget the raisins) into a blender or food

processor. Add the soy sauce and blend until smooth.

edited to add: I just noticed that I misread the ingredients for this sauce when I made it. I used fresh minced garlic instead of onion. Of course, you'd really have to like garlic to use a 1/4 cup of garlic instead of onion, but we liked it!

( RG1209 )