# Brown Sauce

A homemade brown sauce that can be adapted into a spicy Hunan or Szechuan sauce.

- Cuisine: Chinese
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 pint plain water or light chicken bouillon base, chicken stock, or soup
- 1 tsp hoisin sauce
- 1 tsp oyster sauce
- 1 tsp Kikkoman soy sauce
- 1 tsp cooking wine or cooking sherry
- 1 dab white pepper
- 1 tsp dark soy sauce
- 1 little bit minced garlic
- 1 little bit cornstarch
- 1 little bit MSG
- 1 little bit hot chili

## Instructions

1. Add one teaspoon of hoisin sauce.
2. Add another teaspoon of oyster sauce.
3. Add another teaspoon of Kikkoman soy sauce.
4. Add a teaspoon of cooking wine or cooking sherry.
5. Add a dab of white pepper.
6. Add another teaspoon of dark soy sauce for coloring.
7. Add a little bit of minced garlic if you like a heavy garlic flavor.
8. Add a little bit of cornstarch.
9. Add a little bit of MSG.
10. Do not add salt.
11. If you want your brown sauce to turn into a Hunan or Szechuan spicy sauce, add a little bit of hot chili.

## Tips

- Add hot chili to turn it into a Hunan or Szechuan spicy sauce.
- Do not add salt.

## Source

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- Extracted: 2026-06-01

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