Kecap manis recipe

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Kecap manis is a flavoured sweet soy sauce, which has a thick, almost syrupy consistency and a pronounced sweet, treacle-like flavour due to generous addition of palm sugar or molasses.

This recipe and photograph, has reproduced by kind permission of Robin

Ingredients

• 100 ml light soy sauce (or Kikoman)
• 50-100 ml molasses
• 2 slices ginger
• 1 small clove garlic, crushed
• ½ red chilli (fresh or dried)
• 1 star anise

Method

1. Bring to the boil, simmer for about 10 minutes until syrupy consistence.
2. When you use blackstrap molasses you probably need to add palm sugar too because the resulting sauce should be quite sweet.