Daisho Sesame Ponzu (ごまぽんず) 240g is a Japanese citrus-soy ponzu with creamy sesame paste blended into it. The maker describes it as sesame paste and refreshing yuzu juice brought together into one sauce, and the yuzu is grown in Kyushu, where the sauce is made. The sesame gives it a rounder, nuttier body than a plain ponzu while the citrus keeps the sharp, clean lift that makes ponzu what it is.
About Daisho
Daisho Co., Ltd. (株式会社ダイショー) is a Japanese seasoning maker established in December 1966 in Fukuoka — originally as Daisho Foods, set up to make grilled-meat seasoning, and its very first product was a yakiniku sauce called Yakiniku Ichiban. It now works from dual headquarters in Tokyo and Fukuoka, and is known across Japan for yakiniku and steak sauces, seasoned salt-and-pepper, and nabe hot-pot soup bases, under the company motto "creating happiness through deliciousness".
What is ponzu, and what makes a sesame ponzu different?
Ponzu (ポン酢) is a Japanese citrus-soy sauce — soy sauce lifted with the juice of a Japanese citrus such as yuzu, sudachi or kabosu and balanced with vinegar. It is tangy, thin and splashable, and it is one of the two sauces you are usually handed at a shabu-shabu table: the bright citrus ponzu on one side and a creamy, nutty sesame goma-dare on the other. A sesame ponzu puts both of those characters in a single bottle — the citrus base of a ponzu, with sesame blended through it.
How to use & enjoy
Ponzu is a dipping sauce first. It is traditionally the dip for hot pot — shabu-shabu and other nabemono — and for sashimi and lightly seared tataki. Away from the hot pot it is used uncooked as a finishing sauce rather than cooked into a dish: splashed over salads and cold tofu, or over grilled and pan-fried meat, fish and vegetables once they come off the heat.
Ingredients
Refer to the product packaging.
Allergens
The manufacturer's own description of this sauce names sesame paste among its ingredients. For the allergen declaration as printed for the Australian market, please refer to the product packaging.
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Japanese sesame ponzu made with Kyushu yuzu · ごまぽんず 240g · Daisho.
