This easy Diabetic Teriyaki Sauce Recipe gushes with flavor and the sweet aroma of ginger and garlic. Thick and sticky like caramel sauce, this sugar free teriyaki sauce recipe only has 5 ingredients. Ready in 10 minutes, you can’t tell that this diabetic friendly teriyaki sauce recipe is actually sugar free.
Need a diabetic friendly dessert? We have plenty of diabetic baking recipes sweetened with monk fruit.
This sugar free teriyaki sauce recipe delivers thick, restaurant-style teriyaki sauce that lusciously hugs the food!
Ingredients in Diabetic Teriyaki Sauce
Here you’ll find everything you need to know to make delicious sugar free teriyaki sauce for diabetics.
- Soy sauce – Use regular or low-sodium soy sauce.
- Mirin – Mirin is Japanese sweet rice cooking wine. Some brands are more diabetic-friendly than others:
Supermarkets usually sell Kikkoman Aji-Mirin which is sweeter than mirin and contains less alcohol. Kikkoman Aji-Mirin is, in fact, sweetened with glucose syrup and corn syrup.
To make diabetic friendly teriyaki sauce, opt for sugar free mirin. For example, Eden Mirin doesn’t contain any refined sugar and is available at health food stores.
There’s also Hon Mirin, or so-called pure mirin, which is produced without sugar and has a high alcohol content. Its main ingredients are glutinous rice, rice koji (malt), and shochu (Japanese distilled alcohol), and you’ll find it in Japanese grocery stores. - Garlic – adds robust but mellow flavor and aroma to sugar friend teriyaki sauce.
- Ginger – enhances the flavor of this keto teriyaki sauce recipe.
- Granulated sweetener of choice – Use a zero-calorie sweetener such as monk fruit to make teriyaki sauce for diabetics.
- Xanthan gum (optional) – to thicken the sauce. With 0 net carbs, xanthan gum is 100% keto-friendly.
Below you can see how plump teriyaki sauce gets immediately after adding a teaspoon of xanthan gum.
How to Make Diabetic Teriyaki Sauce
It only takes a few minutes to make teriyaki sauce for diabetics.
Step 1. Heat soy sauce and mirin in small saucepan on stove to a gentle boil.
Step 2. Add garlic, ginger and sugar free sweetener. Simmer 5 minutes.
Step 3. Add an optional teaspoon of keto-friendly xanthan gum to thicken the sauce. Use a whisk or immersion blender to blend it in properly.
Step 4. Serve diabetic friendly teriyaki sauce on your favorite dish or refrigerate for future use.
Below you can see how thick sweet and savory teriyaki sauce gets if you refrigerate it overnight.
FAQs about Sugar Free Teriyaki Sauce
Teriyaki sauce actually comes from Hawaii and emerged in the 1960s when Japanese immigrants settled there. They ended up making homemade teriyaki sauce by mixing soy sauce with local ingredients such as pineapple juice and brown sugar.
Yes, most teriyaki sauce recipes are vegan.
Teriyaki sauce is traditionally made with soy sauce, which is not gluten free because it contains wheat.
Use sugar free mirin and sweeten diabetic teriyaki sauce with a sugar free, keto-friendly sweetener such as zero-calorie monk fruit.
Yes, you can marinate seafood and meats in teriyaki sauce. You can also use teriyaki sauce as a stir-fry sauce or glaze.
Homemade teriyaki sauce keeps for a good week in the refrigerator. If you want to store diabetic teriyaki sauce longer, just freeze it.
For example, to stir fries or brush meats or seafood with teriyaki sauce before baking them. Other options include drizzling it over a meat or seafood platter that’s ready to be served, or using it as an overnight marinade.
What Goes Well with Keto Diabetic Teriyaki Sauce?
Sugar free teriyaki sauce tastes great on fish, chicken, beef, pork and tofu. Use it to make classics like chicken teriyaki or even salmon teriyaki quiche.
How to Store Diabetic Friendly Teriyaki Sauce
Diabetic friendly teriyaki sauce is easy to store.
To Store Sugar Free Diabetic Teriyaki Sauce
Refrigerate sugar free teriyaki sauce in a sealed container for a good week.
To Freeze Diabetic Teriyaki Sauce
Freeze sugar free teriyaki sauce in a sealed container for up to 2 months.
Want More Diabetic Friendly Recipes?
Try my other delicious sugar free recipes!
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- Black Sesame Keto Pie Crust
- Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie – Easy and Healthy!
- Keto Cream Cheese Frosting
- Keto Chocolate Bundt Cake
- Almond Flour Pizza Crust Recipe
- Chocolate-Avocado Frosting
Recipe Card
Diabetic Teriyaki Sauce Recipe (Sugar Free)
Equipment
- 1 Pan
- 1 Spoon
- 1 Cutting Knife
- 1 immersion blender or blender
Ingredients
- ½ cup Soy Sauce
- ½ cup Mirin
- 1 teaspoon Chopped Garlic
- 1 teaspoon Chopped Ginger
- 2 tablespoons Granulated sweetener of choice The amount of sweetener will vary based on what brand mirin you use and on how sweet you want it. I recommend starting with 2 tablespoons of sweetener and tasting the sauce before adding more sweetener.
- 1 teaspoon Xanthan Gum (optional for thickening)
Instructions
- Put the soy sauce, mirin, garlic, ginger, and sweetener in a pot and bring to a gentle boil.
- Simmer 5 minutes
- With an immersion blender or blender, puree the ingredients.
- If you want to thicken the sauce, add one teaspoon of xanthan gum and disperse it with your immersion blender or blender.Note that the sauce will initially be plump from the xanthan gum but if you refrigerate it for a few hours or overnight, it will thicken up considerably. Either way, it's ready to be added to your favorite dish.
Notes
Love your recipe. I’ve avoided teriyaki sauce for so long because I’m diabetic. Great idea! I had no idea that sugarfree mirin is out there. Thanks.
Glad you can enjoy it again!
Saving this recipe! Your teriyaki sauce looks so good. I love how thick and glossy it is. And your detailed information about the different mirin’s is so helpful. I will have to check out that Eden Mirin 🙂
Glad it was helpful. Yes, there are so many different mirins on the market. Let me know how the Eden Mirin works for you.