Quick Rich Brown Shoyu Sauce

• 1/2 cup mirin (sweet cooking wine)
• 1/4 cup sake (rice wine)
• 1/4 cup shoyu (soy sauce)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 4 garlic cloves, peeled
• 2 akatogarashi (Japanese dried red chile peppers)

1. Pour the mirin and sake into a small saucepan, set it over medium heat, and bring to a simmer.
2. Add the shoyu, sugar, garlic, and red chile pepper and cook, stirring to dissolve the sugar.
3. Turn the heat to low and cook for 8 minutes.
4. Remove the saucepan from the heat and cool.
5. Store the sauce in a clean jar with a lid.
6. The next day, remove the garlic (but leave the red chile pepper).
7. The sauce keeps several months in the refrigerator.

mirin, sake, shoyu, sugar, garlic, red chile peppers

Taken from www.cookstr.com/recipes/quick-rich-brown-shoyu-sauce (may not work)