Homemade Korean Red Chili Sauce
Friday 22 July 2016 — Category: Cooking & Food
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After years of enjoying their scrumptious sauce and wishing they would sell bottles of it, earlier this year I got the idea to try to make my own version at home. How close could I get to their special taste? The first step was to research some recipes on the Web. It didn’t take long to discover that the primary ingredient is Gochujang red chili paste. Doubting that I could find this at a grocery store in Albany, I ordered a 500g tub on Amazon. More recently I found it at some Asian grocery stores in Portland. As of this writing, the $6.99 price on Amazon, with free Prime shipping, seems a really good deal. With Gochujang paste in hand, it was time to make a sauce out of it. The 1/3-cup recipe is really quite simple: 2 tablespoons Gochujang chili paste
2 tablespoons rice (or any) vinegar 4 teaspoons corn syrup 1 teaspoon sesame seeds ![]() Because I didn’t want to have to make small quantities of this sauce each time I wanted to enjoy it with a meal, I decided to make a larger batch and bottle it. Around that time I had finished a 7.5 oz bottle of Taco Bell sauce, so I saved and washed the bottle, making it all ready to hold my Korean chili sauce. Here’s the scaled-up, 1-cup recipe:
This recipe is just the beginning. You can easily experiment with your own variations. I’m quite happy with this simple version. It does not taste exactly like the excellent sauce at Toki Teriyaki, but it is still really good, and is now the reigning Asian hot sauce in the house. As with numerous other recipes on this Web site, I have made a downloadable PDF version which is especially suited for any mobile device you might be using in the kitchen. It contains both the small and large batch recipes, plus related notes. Check it out and give it a try! I've been scoping out some empty hot sauce bottles on Amazon, as well as some printable bottle labels. My sauce is so tasty that perhaps I should make a huge batch and give away bottles of it for Christmas gifts!
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On August 10, 2016,
Cindi Wells wrote:
Sounds great Brian!! David loves hot sauces so if you make some for Christmas presents put him on your list!! :)
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