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Teriyaki sauce

Name: Teriyaki sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 13 min
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: 1/2 cup soy sauce; 1/2 cup water; 3 1/2 tbsp honey; 4 tsp rice vinegar; 3 cloves garlic, grated; 1 tsp sesame oil; 1 tbsp cornstarch

The four-ingredient glaze, made once and kept: soy, honey, ginger and garlic thickened to a shine. Cheaper and less sweet than any bottle.

Time: 13 min (5 prep + 8 cook)
Servings: 10
Per serving: 37 kcal
Protein: 1 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

1/2 cup soy sauce120 g
1/2 cup water120 g
3 1/2 tbsp honey70 g
4 tsp rice vinegar20 g
3 cloves garlic, grated10 g
1 tsp sesame oil5 g
1 tbsp cornstarch8 g

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Steps

Whisk the cornstarch into the cold water first — into hot liquid it lumps.
Combine everything in a small pot and bring to a simmer, whisking.
Two minutes and it thickens to a glaze that coats a spoon.
Cool and jar; keeps a month. Use as glaze in the last two minutes of cooking, never as a marinade you then boil away.

Why this score

easy to overeat

No single route carries this one — a moderate amount of protein, volume and fiber.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

11% of kcal

64% water

4 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

29%

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 370 kcal goes into the pot, 353 g of ingredients comes out as ~300 g of food → 123 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 123
Protein: (11%); 4 g
Fat: (13%); 2 g
Carbohydrates: (76%); 25 g
of which sugar: 19 g
Fiber: <1 g
Sodium: 2,199 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.