Daisho Unagi Kabayaki Grilled Eel Sauce 240g is the glossy, sweet-savoury glaze that makes unagi kabayaki — Japanese grilled eel — taste the way it does in a specialist eel restaurant. Daisho builds it on koikuchi (dark) soy sauce, adds the rounded depth of sanontou sugar and the umami of Hokkaido-grown Rishiri kombu dashi, then finishes it with hon-mirin and sake. One bottle is enough for around eight grilled eel fillets, and the maker recommends it just as readily for teriyaki and for simmering fish.
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 kabayaki?
Kabayaki (蒲焼) is the Japanese method of butterflying an eel, skewering it and grilling it while brushing on a sweet soy glaze in layers, so the surface builds up a lacquered sheen. The glaze itself is called the tare. Served over rice it becomes unadon or unaju — one of Japan's most prized summer dishes — and the same sauce is what gives supermarket kabayaki eel its familiar flavour.
How to use it — Daisho's directions
Daisho's instruction is simply to pour a suitable amount over grilled eel kabayaki and serve, and notes that one bottle covers roughly eight eel fillets. Beyond eel, the maker suggests it for teriyaki and for simmered fish — a recommendation printed on the bottle itself as well as on the product page.
Ingredients
Soy sauce (produced in Japan), starch syrup, fructose-glucose syrup, sanontou sugar, hon-mirin, sake, kombu extract, yeast extract, vegetable oil / caramel colour, alcohol, thickeners (modified starch, xanthan gum), seasoning (amino acids etc.).
Allergens
Contains: wheat, soy. For the allergen declaration as printed for the Australian market, please refer to the product packaging.
Nutrition (per serving, or per 100 g — as printed by the manufacturer)
- Energy: 184 kcal
- Protein: 3.2 g
- Fat: 0.2 g
- Carbohydrate: 42.4 g
- Salt equivalent: 6.1 g
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Japanese glaze for grilled eel · うなぎ蒲焼きのたれ 240g · Daisho sauce range.
