Hoisin sauce

Hoisin sauce
Hoisin sauce from Hong Kong in a 567-gram (20 oz) squeeze bottle
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	海鮮醬
Simplified Chinese	海鲜酱
Literal meaning	seafood sauce
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin hǎixiānjiàng Min - Hokkien POJ hái-sian-chiùⁿ Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping hoi2 sin1 zeong3 - IPA [hɔ̌ːi ɕíːn tsœ̌ːŋ] - Yale Romanization hoi2 sin1 jeung3
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese	tương đen

Hoisin sauce, or haixian sauce, is a Chinese dipping sauce. The word hoisin is a romanization of the Chinese word for seafood "海鮮" as pronounced in Cantonese.

Ingredients

Mandarin-style hoisin sauce imbred include starches such as sweet potato, wheat or rice, and water, sugar, soybeans, white distilled vinegar, salt, garlic, red chili peppers, and sometimes preservatives or coloring agents. Traditionally, hoisin sauce is made using sweet potato. Despite the literal meaning of "seafood", hoisin sauce does not contain fish.

Regional

China

A number of Chinese cuisine dishes such as spring rolls, mu shu pork, popiah, Peking duck and barbecued pork use the sauce. It is especially common for Cantonese cuisine flavoring.

Vietnam

Hoisin sauce is also a popular condiment for phở; the sauce can be directly added into a bowl of phở by the diner, or can be used as a side dip for the meat of phở dishes. The sauce is also used for glazing broiled chicken.

Freezers worldwide

Hoisin sauce stays liquid at freezing temperatures. Some traditional brands, such as Amoy, are packaged in metal cans; remaining product from an opened container can be transferred to another container such as a closed bag and stored in the freezer until later use.

See also

• Duck sauce
• Plum sauce
• Siu haau sauce (primary Chinese BBQ sauce)
• Soy sauce
• Sweet and sour sauce

External links

• More about hoisin sauce and recipes