Hoisin sauce

Hoisin sauce
Deep-fried Jiaozi with hoisin sauce
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	海鮮醬
Simplified Chinese	海鲜酱
Literal meaning	seafood sauce
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin hǎixiānjiàng IPA [xàɪɕjɛ́ntɕjɑ̂ŋ] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization hói sīn jeung Jyutping hoi2 sin1 zoeng3 IPA [hɔ̌ːi síːn tsœ̌ːŋ] Southern Min Hokkien POJ hái-sian-chiùⁿ
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese	tương đen
Literal meaning	black sauce

Hoisin sauce is a thick, fragrant sauce commonly used in Cantonese cuisine as a glaze for meat, an addition to stir fry, or as dipping sauce. It is darkly-coloured in appearance and sweet and salty in taste. Although regional variants exist, hoisin sauce usually includes soybeans, fennel, red chili peppers, and garlic. Vinegar, five-spice powder and sugar are also commonly added.

Name[]

The word hoisin is derived from a shortening of the Chinese words for "seafood sauce" (simplified Chinese: 海鲜酱; traditional Chinese: 海鮮醬; Cantonese Yale: hói sīn jeung; pinyin: hǎixiānjiàng), although the sauce does not contain any seafood ingredients and is not commonly consumed with seafood.^[1] The reason for the name is "seafood flavour", a common adjective in Chinese cuisine, especially Sichuanese ("fish fragrant").

Ingredients[]

The key ingredient of hoisin sauce is fermented soybean paste.^[2]

Some hoisin sauce ingredients include starches such as sweet potato, wheat and rice, and water, sugar, soybeans, sesame seeds, white distilled vinegar, salt, garlic, red chili peppers, and sometimes preservatives or coloring agents. Traditionally, hoisin sauce is made using toasted mashed soybeans.

Uses in regional cuisines[]

Cantonese cuisine[]

Hoisin sauce is used in Cantonese cuisine as a marinade sauce for meat or as a dipping sauce.

Hoisin sauce can be used as a marinade sauce for meat such as char siu.

Hoisin sauce can be used as a dipping sauce for steamed or panfried rice noodle roll (chángfĕn 肠粉).^[3]

American cuisine[]

Hoisin sauce can be used as a dipping sauce for Peking duck and lettuce wraps.

Hoisin sauce can be used as a dipping sauce for moo shu pork.^{[4] [5]}

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  Hoisin sauce on a Peking duck wrap

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  Plain cheungfan with hoisin sauce and sesame seed sauce

Vietnamese cuisine[]

In Vietnamese, hoisin sauce is called tương đen. It is a popular condiment for phở, a Vietnamese noodle soup, in southern Vietnam. The sauce can be directly added into a bowl of phở at the table, or it can be used as a dip for the meat of phở dishes. In phở, hoisin is typically accompanied by Sriracha sauce or tương đỏ. The hoisin sauce is also used to make a dipping sauce for Vietnamese gỏi cuốn (often translated as 'spring roll') and other similar dishes. In cooking, it can be used for glazing broiled chicken.

See also[]

• Duck sauce
• List of dips
• List of Chinese sauces
• List of sauces
• Plum sauce
• Siu haau sauce, primary Chinese barbecue sauce
• Soy sauce
• Sweet and sour sauce

References[]

External links[]

• More about hoisin sauce and recipes
• What Are the Origins of Hoisin Sauce from realclearlife.com