Fu Zhi



This recipe by Fuchsia Dunlop is a  delightfully aromatic soy sauce and perfect in Shanghainese dishes and red cooked meats. She has cleverly entwined ownership with the naming of the sauce. It can be used as a soy sauce ingredient for dumpling dipping sauces, as a table top condiment and as a general cooking condiment.

Ingredients:
  • 80 ml 1/3 cup dark soy sauce
  • 160 ml 2/3 cup water
  • 6 T brown sugar
  • piece cinnamon stick
  • 1/2 tsp fennel seeds
  • 1 star anise
  • 1/2 tsp Szechuan pepper
  • 1 cm  piece...

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