10 NEW WAYS TO MAKE SOY-BASED SAUCE | VEGETARIAN SOY-BASED SAUCE

I love having Hot Pot dinner parties and setting out all the sauce ingredients in pretty dishes for each guest to make his or her own sauce. Hot Pot is a traditional Chinese food experience. Raw meat and vegetables are served at a formal table. Hot decorative pots full of flavorful broth are provided for each guest and everyone cooks his or her own food in the hot broth. Each person has dipping sauces to season their own cooked meat and vegetables.

When I host a hot pot experience, I make it more like a buffet with several hot pots and a large array of meats, vegetables and spices for each guest to make their own plate. I often hang out by the sauce area to help with quantities and combinations, but most people just love creating the perfect complement to their plate of meat and vegetables.

Ingredients

• 2 parts soy sauce

• 1 part lemon juice

• 1 part sesame seeds

• ¼ part minced garlic

Instructions

1. Mix all ingredients and taste.

2. Serve over rice or use as a dip for anything that can be dipped into a light sauce.

3. Be daring and add any of the ingredients below.

Make it your own

Add any of these ingredients to your sauce to add more flavor and create your own signature sauce. Have fun with all these ingredients and proportions.

• chives (fresh or dry)

• red crushed peppers

• mint (fresh or dry)

• white vinegar

• ginger (fresh or dry)

• Szechuan peppers (only a few for fun)

• sriracha hot chili sauce (only a few drops)

• oyster flavored sauce (only a few drops)

• sesame oil (only a few drops)

• Mongolian fire oil (only a few drops)

• crushed peanuts

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