Homemade Hoisin Sauce Recipe

Hoisin sauce is super easy to make it at home and so much better than store brought sauce. This recipes uses basic pantry ingredients, and no cooking is required. The consistency of the sauce is thick like a paste, dark brown in color, and has a sweet – salty taste. Hoisin sauce is commonly used in Chinese, Vietnamese and in American cuisine. Recipe includes detailed instructions with stepwise picture and recipe links which uses this sauce.

I have used store brought hoisin sauce, but I personally feel this homemade version is much better and healthier than that. Store brought sauce is very sweet with high content from the molasses, starch from potato, artificial colors added for the deep brown color and all the preservatives added to it. So I decided to make it homemade with the ingredients available in the pantry. Tried it few times with different variations before I ended up with this recipe, you’ll not make out any difference between homemade and store brought hoisin sauce.

The word hoisin is derived from a shortening of the Chinese words for seafood sauce although the sauce does not contain any seafood ingredients and is not commonly consumed with seafood. The reason for the name is seafood flavor. Traditionally, hoisin sauce is made using toasted mashed soybeans, but in this recipe we are not going to use it.

Where can this hoisin sauce be used?

• In Chinese cuisine –  hoisin sauce is used in as a marinade sauce for meat or as a dipping sauce. It can be used as a dipping sauce for steamed or pan fried rice noodle roll and dumplings.
• American cuisine – It can be used as a dipping sauce for Peking duck, lettuce wraps, and sliced pork tenderloin.
• Vietnamese cuisine – In Vietnamese, hoisin sauce is a popular condiment for Vietnamese noodle soup. The sauce can be directly added into a bowl of noodle soup , or it can be used as a dip for the meat. The hoisin sauce is also used to make a dipping sauce for Vietnamese spring roll, and other similar dishes. In cooking, it can be used for glazing broiled chicken.

These recipe from the blog uses this homemade hoisin sauce, check the links below for detailed recipe instructions with stepwise pictures.

• PF Chang’s Chicken Lettuce Wraps

• PF Chang’s Inspired – Vegetarian Lettuce Wraps – used textured vegetable protein 

Storing instructions

Sauce can be refrigerated in a clean air tight glass container ( preferred). When using it, make sure to use a clean dry spoon every time and refrigerate any leftover sauce immediately. I have tested it with max of three weeks in the refrigerator, but I am sure it can keep good for more time. Tamarind, vinegar, oil, acts as a natural preservative for the sauce.

Other homemade sauces, syrups, dips, and spread recipes, I have listed few below, for the complete list of the recipes check the link here – accompaniment & condiment

• Cream Of Pistachio Nut | Spread
• Simple Pancake Syrup Recipe 
• Mango – Radish And Jalapeno Salsa

Check the Chinese cuisines recipes in the links below, I have listed few below, for the complete list of recipes, check the link here – Chinese Cuisines Recipes

• Air Fryer Crispy Tofu In Sweet Chili Sauce
• Instant Pot Mango Bubble Tea
• Wow Bao Spicy Kung Pao Chicken Bao – Instant Pot
• Easy Vegetable Noodles Recipe
• Veggie Fried Rice

Step by step pictures of how to make the hoisin sauce

Ingredients required – Soy sauce , rice vinegar , honey, sriracha sauce , tamarind paste , minced garlic , cornstarch , peanut butter and sesame oil.

In a bowl, add all the above mentioned ingredients.

Now mix the ingredients well to a smooth paste using a hand whisk or beat well using a spoon.