Store-bought Asian Sauces (healthy)

soccerkon26
soccerkon26 Posts: 596 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Are there any store-bought Asian sauces that you use? Trying to find one..like sweet and sour or teriyaki...anything!

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  • nickatine
    nickatine Posts: 451 Member
    I like Asian family peanut satay it's not exactly low cal though.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,537 Member
    I'm a big fan of Hoisin, it's good for stirfries, good as a dipping sauce and good as a marinade. It's high in sugar though.

    Teriyaki is good, there tend to be 2 different types, one a gooey sauce, and the other a marinade the consistency of water. I like the marinade for chicken and pork.

    Satay is a staple in my house, again not low calorie but so yummy.

    I'm not a fan of sweet & sour, but that's a personal taste.
  • Vailara
    Vailara Posts: 2,475 Member
    edited January 2015
    I've been using chilli garlic sauce recently - 10 calories a portion (depending on how much you use, obviously, but it's mainly just chilli so I wouldn't eat loads). I also use soy sauce and sesame oil quite lot. Again, you only use a little bit so they don't add a lot of calories.
  • mangrothian
    mangrothian Posts: 1,351 Member
    I love ponzu sauce - it's not a thick sauce, but it's tangy and salty and slightly sweet at the same time. My favourite way to use it is just before I've finished cooking some meat, I add about 10-20ml of the sauce to the frypan and toss the meat in it until it forms a slightly sticky coating.

    Great, its now 10pm and I'm drooling from reading this thread...
  • firebloom
    firebloom Posts: 109 Member
    I really like tamari. It makes nice stir fries if you cook the vegetables in a little sesame oil and then add tamari sauce and honey.
  • jessiemjporter
    jessiemjporter Posts: 174 Member
    Being part asian we make maybe 60% of ours but on a lazy day, i use Blue dragon.
    Oyster sauce is good~
  • lealorali
    lealorali Posts: 22 Member
    I actually make a really easy unprocessed Asian sauce- add low-sodium soy sauce (or Tamari sauce), honey, ginger (fresh or ground), and sesame seed oil. It has that great Asian sweet and tangy-ness but without all those toxic ingredients you find in store bought mixes. I put oit on fish and in rice/ veggies.
    Also, Trader Joe's makes a good natural Asian sauce too :)
  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    lealorali wrote: »
    I actually make a really easy unprocessed Asian sauce- add low-sodium soy sauce (or Tamari sauce), honey, ginger (fresh or ground), and sesame seed oil. It has that great Asian sweet and tangy-ness but without all those toxic ingredients you find in store bought mixes. I put oit on fish and in rice/ veggies.
    Also, Trader Joe's makes a good natural Asian sauce too :)

    Toxic ingredients?? Hooooh boy. :|
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