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Sweet Island Teriyaki Sauce

"This is a great recipe for any meat marinade. Also a wonderful stir fry sauce. Marinate your choice of meat or vegetables for 4 to 24 hours; grill to your liking. Can be refrigerated for 2 weeks. The better quality soy sauce you use, the better your final product will be. Sauce can always be thinned with water if desired."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Sake and pineapple share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

10 servings
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: soy, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Combine the soy sauce, sake, minced pineapple, honey, sugar, minced garlic and grated ginger in a small saucepan. Add the fish sauce now if you want it.

  2. Set the pan over medium heat and stir until the sugar and honey dissolve.

  3. Bring the mixture to a gentle simmer, then cook for about 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until it thickens slightly and the garlic softens.

  4. Remove from the heat and let the sauce cool for about 10 minutes.

  5. Strain out the pineapple and ginger pieces if you prefer a smooth sauce, or leave them in. Store in a sealed jar in the refrigerator.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sake + pineappletop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pineapple + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together262 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Sake + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Garlic + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Honey + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, sake, pineapple, honey, sugar, ginger, fish sauce):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Peppermintbetter flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, sake, pineapple, honey, sugar, ginger, fish sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).