Korean Bulgogi Sauce

Korean bulgogi sauce is easy to make and will up level some of your favorite dishes. Use it to marinate chicken or beef, use it to stir fry chicken or beef, pour it over a homemade bibimbap or even put it on your homemade burger.

What’s Bulgogi Sauce?

It’s a Korean sauce made with soy sauce, brown sugar, apple juice, apple cider vinegar, fresh garlic, fresh ginger, toasted sesame oil and green onions and often used as a marinade for beef and as a sauce for stir fry.

Korean Bulgogi Sauce Ingredients (What is it made of?)

• soy sauce
• brown sugar
• apple juice
• apple cider vinegar
• fresh garlic
• fresh ginger
• toasted sesame oil
• green onions

How to make Bulgogi Sauce from scratch

• Step 1 – Mix the soy sauce with sugar, apple juice and apple cider vinegar and heat until the sugar melts.
• Step 2 – Remove from heat and leave to cool.
• Step 3 – Mix with garlic, ginger, sesame oil and green onions.
• Step 1 – Mix the soy sauce with sugar, apple juice and apple cider vinegar and heat until the sugar melts.
• Step 2 – Remove from heat and leave to cool.
• Step 3 – Mix with garlic, ginger, sesame oil and green onions.

How to make this sauce spicy

Add a little hot pepper to make this sauce spicy!

Tips

• Use a high quality soy sauce for best flavor. (Find out everything you ever wanted to know about Korean soy sauces here.)
• Prep the sauce when you plan to use it.

How to use this sauce

This sauce is so delicious there are so many tasty ways to use it!

• Marinate chicken or beef with this sauce
• Use it to stir fry chicken or beef
• Use it to top your bibimbap
• Smother your burgers with it

What other sauces taste similar?

This sauce is similar to other soy based Asian dipping sauces.

Is bulgogi sauce gluten free?

Most soy sauces contain gluten, so make sure you use a gluten free soy sauce if you want your sauce to be gluten-free.

Is bulgogi sauce vegan?

Soy sauce is a vegan food, as it is made from soybeans, which belong to the legume family. If you are a vegan, you can use soy sauce as a condiment.

Is it sweet?

This sauce is more savory than sweet.

Is it healthy?

This simple Korean sauce is healthy as long as you don’t overdo it, as soy sauce has quite a lot of salt in it.

Is it keto?

Yes, most soy sauces are low in carbs and can be included as part of a keto diet.

More Asian Dinner Recipes

• Burmese Chicken Curry
• Nepali Chicken Curry
• Thai Cashew Chicken
• Vegetarian Japanese Curry
• Chicken Lemongrass Stir Fry

Korean Bulgogi Sauce

Once you start making this easy sauce on your own, you’ll never buy it again.

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