Homemade Unagi Sauce (Sweet Eel Sauce)

Name: Homemade Unagi Sauce (Sweet Eel Sauce)
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 3 tbsp turbinado sugar ((zarame) coarse light brown sugar); 1 tsp dark brown sugar (muscovado or similar); 5 tbsp sake; 5 tbsp mirin; 5 tbsp Japanese soy sauce (koikuchi shoyu)

Instructions

Cook:15min

With just 5 ingredients and 15 minutes, you can make rich, sweet and glossy Japanese unagi sauce from scratch. Use it for grilled eel, rice and more, you'll never need store-bought again!

Updated at: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:41:44 GMT