Eel sauce, how to make Eel sauce

Ingredients

•  1 cup of mirin
•  ½ cup unflavoured sake
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup soy sauce
• 1 tbsp cornstarch + water (1:1)
• 4 tbsp hondashi pellets

Method

• Take a sauce pan. Add mirin, sake, sugar and hondashi pellets. Mix until everything has dissolved.
•  Bring everything to a boil and add soy sauce.
• Mix it well.
• Once your sauce is boiling, reduce the heat to low.
• Allow the sauce to simmer for 15 minutes.
• After 15 minutes, bring the sauce up to a rolling boil (where you see lots of bubble).
• While stirring, slowly add cornstarch slurry.
• Stir continuously until the sauce lowers back down. If you don’t stir, your sauce will boil down over the pot.
• Allow the sauce to boil for another 5 minutes or until it looks something like syrup.
• Allow the sauce to cool in the refrigerator for 1 hour and then pour it into sauce bottle.
• Enjoy!
• Store this sauce in the air tight container for up to 2 weeks.