Soy Garlic Honey Sauce

Name: Soy Garlic Honey Sauce
Total time: 10 min
Yield: about 1 1/4 cups
Ingredients: ½ cup gluten-free soy sauce or tamari (check the label for GF); ½ cup honey; ¼ cup water; 2 tbsp dry sherry or gluten-free mirin (check the label for GF); 4 cloves garlic, finely minced; 1 tbsp rice vinegar; 1 tsp cornstarch, mixed with 1 tbsp cold water; 1 tsp toasted sesame oil

by Matt KennardPublished September 18, 2026

Simmered, thickened just enough to coat, and served alongside rather than tossed through. Sauced, a fried crust is gone in minutes.

Yield: about 1¼ cups
Active: 6 min
Total: 10 min

Simmered Gluten-free Dairy-free Weeknight Make-ahead

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Lifted out of the jalapeno-pickle fried chicken bites, where it was one step among six, because the Korean fried chicken calls for it too and was naming it in an ingredient line rather than linking to it.

Ingredients

about 1 1/4 cups

½ cup gluten-free soy sauce or tamari (check the label for GF)
½ cup honey
¼ cup water
2 tbsp dry sherry or gluten-free mirin (check the label for GF)
4 cloves garlic, finely minced
1 tbsp rice vinegar
1 tsp cornstarch, mixed with 1 tbsp cold water
1 tsp toasted sesame oil

Method

Simmer 3 min · just short of syrupy

Simmer the soy sauce, honey, water, sherry or mirin, garlic and rice vinegar for 3 minutes.
Finish 1 min · coats a spoon

Re-stir the cornstarch slurry -- it settles in the time it takes to do anything else -- add it, and whisk 1 minute.
Finish off the heat

Off the heat, stir in the sesame oil and pour it into a serving bowl. Sesame oil goes in off the heat or it turns bitter.

Goes with

Used in: Jalapeno-Pickle Fried Chicken Bites with Soy Garlic Honey Sauce, Korean Fried Chicken (Double-Fried, Two Glazes)
A cousin of: Honey Soy Glaze

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