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a soy-and-sugar lacquer that makes anything taste like it earned a standing ovation
means A Japanese cooking technique and sauce in which foods are glazed and grilled with a glossy mixture of soy sauce, sugar or mirin, and sake.
from Straight from Japanese: 'teri' (照り) means shine or luster — the glossy sheen of the glaze — and 'yaki' (焼き) means grilled or broiled. So the word literally promises 'shining-grilled,' a built-in description of that lacquered gleam. The same 'yaki' shows up in cousins like 'yakitori' (grilled bird) and 'teppanyaki' (grilled on an iron plate).
- name meaning
- teri means shine, yaki means grill
- the shine
- sugar caramelizes into that signature glossy coat
- origin
- developed in Japan around the 17th century
- american twist
- thicker bottled versions exploded postwar in Hawaii
- core four
- soy sauce, sake, mirin, sugar
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