Pop’s Asian-American Grilling Sauce

Name: Pop's Asian-American Grilling Sauce
Total time: PT0D0H0M
Yield: makes About 1 1/2 Cups
Ingredients: 1 cup ketchup; 1 cup roughly chopped cilantro; 1 ⁄ 2 cup honey; 1 ⁄ 3 cup sake; 1 ⁄ 3 cup soy sauce; 1 ⁄ 4 cup fermented bean curd; 1 ⁄ 4 cup fish sauce; 1 ⁄ 4 cup oyster sauce; 1 ⁄ 4 cup sesame oil; 3 tbsp. sriracha hot sauce; 6 cloves garlic, peeled; 2 small red Thai chiles, stemmed; 1 (2") piece ginger, peeled and thinly sliced

Serves
makes About 1 1/2 Cups

TODD COLEMAN

This robust sauce, adapted from a recipe by James Liping Woo, father of writer Mei Chin, adds a balanced sweet and pungent heat as a marinade or baste for all sorts of meats and vegetables. This recipe first appeared in our June/July 2013 issue along with Mei Chin's article Home Fire.