Easy Asian Dipping Sauce Recipe For Dumplings, Pot Stickers, Tempura

An incredibly easy dipping sauce perfect for Asian dumplings, scallion pancakes, gyoza or potstickers, tempura, and egg rolls. Bright, savory, and umami with soy sauce, ginger, rice vinegar, and sesame oil. 

What you'll need

Soy Sauce

(1/4 cup)

Rice Vinegar

(2 teaspoons)

Black Vinegar

(2 teaspoons (opt))

Sugar

(1 teaspoon)

White Pepper

(Pinch)

Grated Ginger

(1 teaspoon)

Sesame Oil

(1/2 teaspoons)

Sesame Seeds

(Pinch)

Sliced Green Onion

(Optional)

Steps

1

To a jar add 1/4 C soy sauce.

2

2 tsp rice vinegar and 2 tsp black vinegar. If you don’t have black just bump up the rice vinegar.

3

1 tsp sugar, 1/4 tsp white pepper, 1 tsp freshly grated ginger.

4

Some sesame seeds. Green onion would be good, too. Then sesame oil to taste. I added 1 tsp.

5

Shake shake. Stays fresh in the refrigerator for a few weeks.

6

Perfect for dumplings, pot stickers, scallion pancakes, tempura.

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My refrigerator is 75% mysterious sauces in jelly jars.

And, I'm always on the hunt for another new sauce. This sauce, like any other, should be tweaked to your liking by adding a bit more of this or that. I think the combination of flavors really works here though. Light or dark soy, a mellow rice vinegar paired with a hearty black vinegar (if you don't have black, just up the rice vinegar by a tsp), sugar, grated ginger, sesame oil, and a pinch of white pepper. I like to top it with green onions and sesame seeds. I'm also known to add a bit more sugar, I really like the sweet and salty combination.

This Asian Dipping Sauce

stays for days in the refrigerator and we use it on everything Asian inspired, especially during sourdough season when I'm using sourdough starter discard to make Sourdough Starter Scallion Pancakes.

Easy Asian Dipping Sauce for Dumplings, Pot Stickers, Gyoza

An incredibly easy dipping sauce perfect for Asian dumplings, pancakes, gyoza, pot stickers, and egg rolls. Bright, savory, and umami with soy sauce, ginger, rice vinegar.

4.75 from 4 votes

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Prep Time 5 mins

Total Time 5 mins

Course Appetizer, Main Course, Side Dish

Cuisine Asian

Servings 4

Calories 18 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 2 tsp rice vinegar
• 2 tsp black vinegar optional, if you don't have it then bump up the rice vinegar to 3 tsp
• 1 tsp sugar
• pinch white pepper (or black pepper)
• 1 tsp grated ginger
• 1/2 tsp sesame oil or to taste
• pinch sesame seeds and sliced green onion optional

Instructions

 

• Add all ingredients into a shaker jar and shake vigorously.

  Serve with any dumpling, eggroll, tempura, etc.

Nutrition

Calories: 18kcalCarbohydrates: 2gProtein: 2gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 810mgPotassium: 31mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1gCalcium: 3mgIron: 1mg

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