How To Make Ponzu Sauce Our Way

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   In a pot, boil the soy sauce, cooking sake, mirin and part of the konbu seaweed.

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   Turn off the heat, add the bonito flakes and the rest of the konbu seaweed, and leave to rest overnight.

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   This is nikiri.

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   Wash the yuzu and sudachi.

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   Spread them out to dry.

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   Cut the citrus fruit in half and juice.

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   It's a lot of sudachi juice.

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   Transfer from the juicer to containers.

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   When all the fruit are juiced, strain through a sieve to remove the seeds and pulp.

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    The sudachi juice is a deep yellow.

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    If there's too much sudachi in the ponzu, it will be very sour.

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    If you wait until the sudachi is yellow and ripe it will be fruity.

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    Yuzu juice is lightly colored and translucent.

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    After letting it rest overnight, the bonito flakes and konbu seaweed in the nikiri will have sunk to the bottom.

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    Drain the nikiri through a sieve to remove the konbu seaweed and bonito flakes.

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    Add the citrus juices to the nikiri.

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    Gently combine.

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    Use a funnel to transfer the sauce to bottles.

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    The bottles should be sterilized in boiling water and dried completely beforehand.

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    If there's any moisture on the bottles, it may lead to mold growth.

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    Dry-roast the leftover bonito flakes from making nikiri in a pan and turn it into furikake.

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    The konbu seaweed can be cut up thinly, and simmered with sugar to make tsukudani.

* Per serving · 4 servings · Values may vary.