Yum Yum Sauce – Rachel Cooks®

It’s all within the Sauce

Some days you need your sauce to hit with a bang bang, and different days, you’re extra within the temper for yum yum. Like bang bang sauce, this yum yum sauce has a creamy mayo base, nevertheless it’s a bit of bit milder and sweeter. Though there’s sizzling sauce within the combine, it doesn’t make the sauce spicy; it simply provides a bit of oomph and heat.

Questioning the way you’d use yum yum sauce? Grilled shrimp and steak are my high decisions for pairing with this sauce, however given its recognition at hibachi eating places, it’s additionally improbable as a dip for tempura greens or sushi rolls. Use it as a alternative for mayonnaise in your burgers (or some other sandwich). Maintain studying for extra concepts.

Do-it-yourself Yum Yum Sauce Recipe

Simple to make. You in all probability have many of the components readily available already, which implies all that’s left to do is stir all the pieces collectively and begin dipping! Making copycat sauces at house is handy, saving you from final minute runs to the shop once you simply must have an ideal sauce.

Thicker than store-bought. In comparison with bottled sauce, this home made model has a thicker consistency, making it much more dippable and spreadable. Nonetheless, if you wish to make a thinner sauce, it’s simple to do (I’ll present you ways on the recipe card).

The right quantity of sweetness. Whereas this home made yum yum sauce is nice, it’s a contact much less sugary than the model you’ll discover at eating places, as we found once we tasted them facet by facet. We discovered that our home made yum yum sauce has extra balanced taste than store-bought sauce.

Customizable to your preferences. If you make this sauce at dwelling, you possibly can customise the sweetness, tanginess, warmth, and consistency to your liking. 

Ingredient Notes

• Mayonnaise: The bottom of yum yum sauce is mayonnaise. Use your favourite mayonnaise, whether or not it’s common, lite, or olive oil. In order for you an additional wealthy sauce with a bit of extra umami, swap in Kewpie mayo. It’s a Japanese model made with egg yolks fairly than eggs and whites.
• Ketchup: A pair tablespoons of ketchup provides sweetness and tang, together with a refined tomato taste. Use your favourite model.
• Butter: Stirring only a tablespoon of melted butter into the sauce provides a improbable richness.
• Sugar: You received’t want so as to add quite a lot of sugar however a pair teaspoons is critical to mimic bottled yum yum sauce. That is one ingredient that you could simply lower or enhance relying in your private preferences.
• Rice vinegar: Make sure you use unseasoned rice vinegar. Seasoned rice vinegar is sweetened and we’re already including our personal sugar right here.
• Spices: Garlic powder and paprika add complexity to the flavour of the sauce.
• Scorching sauce: You may modify the quantity to your liking. As written, this sauce shouldn’t be spicy in any respect however a really small quantity of sizzling sauce (simply ½ teaspoon!) appears so as to add simply the suitable taste to the yum yum sauce. (We examined it facet by facet with store-bought yum yum sauce so our home made yum yum sauce recipe can be a very good reproduction.)
• Water: A small quantity of water is added to regulate the consistency of the sauce. Nonetheless, you could resolve that you just like a thicker sauce, and never use any water in any respect.

The right way to Make Yum Yum Sauce

Mix. Whisk the entire components besides the water in a small bowl. When you’re planning on storing your sauce to make use of later, you possibly can stir it collectively in a jar.

Regulate the consistency. Whisk within the water a bit of at a time till the sauce reaches your required consistency. (Word that should you add quite a lot of water, the flavour might be watered down too, so watch out!)

End. Utilizing a clear spoon, style the sauce, and add extra sugar, sizzling sauce, or no matter you assume the sauce wants, if something (we love the recipe simply the best way it’s written!). Chill for half-hour to permit the flavors to mix, then serve.

Simple Recipe Changes

• Make your sauce tangier. Add further vinegar or a squeeze of lemon juice if you need your sauce to lean extra towards tangy. That’s the great thing about home made sauces: you may make them to suit your model.
• Or make it sweeter. Whisk in additional sugar for a taste a bit of extra much like store-bought yum yum sauce.
• Make it spicy. Add extra sizzling sauce, or for warmth that doesn’t have an effect on the consistency of the sauce, you possibly can stir in cayenne, a pinch at a time, till it’s precisely the best way you prefer it.

The right way to Serve Yum Yum Sauce

• Steak. Strive drizzling yum yum sauce over your cooked steak or air fryer steak bites for a flavorful end. Yum yum sauce goes nicely with just about any meat, and crispy baked tofu, too.
• Hen wings. Prepare dinner and toss air fryer hen wings in yum yum sauce, or use the sauce for dipping them.  
• Greens. Use this sauce for dipping or drizzling onto sautéed asparagus or grilled zucchini. Strive it on stir fried greens. It’s nice with French fries, tater tots, or candy potato fries, too. Really, yum yum sauce goes nicely with candy potatoes any manner you cook dinner them!
• Meal bowls, sandwiches, wraps. A drizzle of yum yum sauce in your favourite bowl is a simple manner so as to add a bit of pizzazz. I like so as to add it to a salmon bowl. As a substitute of plain mayonnaise, why not unfold yum yum sauce in your burgers, sandwiches, or wraps?

Retailer yum yum sauce in a jar or hermetic container for as much as every week. Stir it nicely earlier than serving. Don’t freeze this recipe; mayo-based sauces aren’t good candidates for freezing as a result of mayonnaise separates when frozen and thawed.