How To Make Ponzu Sauce Our Way
- 1 liter Soy sauce
- 100 ml Cooking sake
- 50 ml Mirin
- 50 grams Bonito flakes
- 20 cm Kombu
- 1 liter Sudachi (a citrus fruit) juice
- 200 ml Yuzu juice
- In a pot, boil the soy sauce, cooking sake, mirin and part of the konbu seaweed.
- Turn off the heat, add the bonito flakes and the rest of the konbu seaweed, and leave to rest overnight.
- This is nikiri.
- Wash the yuzu and sudachi.
- Spread them out to dry.
- Cut the citrus fruit in half and juice.
- It's a lot of sudachi juice.
- Transfer from the juicer to containers.
- When all the fruit are juiced, strain through a sieve to remove the seeds and pulp.
- The sudachi juice is a deep yellow.
- If there's too much sudachi in the ponzu, it will be very sour.
- If you wait until the sudachi is yellow and ripe it will be fruity.
- Yuzu juice is lightly colored and translucent.
- After letting it rest overnight, the bonito flakes and konbu seaweed in the nikiri will have sunk to the bottom.
- Drain the nikiri through a sieve to remove the konbu seaweed and bonito flakes.
- Add the citrus juices to the nikiri.
- Gently combine.
- Use a funnel to transfer the sauce to bottles.
- The bottles should be sterilized in boiling water and dried completely beforehand.
- If there's any moisture on the bottles, it may lead to mold growth.
- Dry-roast the leftover bonito flakes from making nikiri in a pan and turn it into furikake.
- The konbu seaweed can be cut up thinly, and simmered with sugar to make tsukudani.
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Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/145057-how-to-make-ponzu-sauce-our-way (may not work)