Skip buying dumpling sauces in stores and start making your own from scratch! This dumpling sauce recipe requires only 8 ingredients. You can prepare it in advance for future use and have it as your sauce for various dumpling dishes, and even wonton dishes.
All About Soy Sauce Vinegar (Dumpling Sauce)
Dumplings always taste better with flavorful dipping sauce. If you have stumbled upon my Four Dumpling Sauce Recipes, you should also save this soy sauce vinegar sauce for your dumpling dishes. This recipe focuses on creating a large batch of the sauce so you can have it any time you need it.
In this dumpling sauce recipe, I used 8 ingredients: green onions, ginger, garlic, sugar, chicken bouillon powder, Zhenjiang vinegar, light soy sauce, and sesame oil. The ingredients are pantry-friendly and easy to find. The special ingredient needed here is the Zhenjiang vinegar, which is also known as Chinese black vinegar.
With the mix of 8 spices, you will enjoy a combination of garlicky, tangy, umami, sweet, and peppery flavors. The ingredients are chopped and combined in one spice jar ready for storage. This dipping sauce pairs well with all dumplings, whether it is fried, steamed, or boiled.
Once you have this sauce, use it as a dipping sauce for the following recipes:
- Rice Paper Dumplings (Gluten-Free)
- Crispy Dumpling Skirt (Dumpling Lace)
- Gluten-Free Dumplings (Taro Dumpling Skin)
- Ham Sui Gok 咸水角 (Fried Glutinous Rice Dumplings)
- Shrimp Wontons
- Pork And Shrimp Wontons
- Air Fryer Minced Meat Wontons
- Beef Wontons
What Ingredients To Use For Dumpling Sauce
The ingredients are all customizable according to your liking. It is up to you if you want to omit or change an ingredient entirely. You can change the flavor to something sweeter, spicier, or tangier.
Dumpling dipping sauce can be made with the following ingredients:
- Green onions: Green onions or spring onions have an onion and slight sweetness to them. It is milder than regular onions. You don’t have to finely chop these, just chop them according to the size of your container. If you don’t have green onions, you can substitute this ingredient with chives, shallots, white onions, yellow onions, or red onions.
- Ginger: Ginger adds peppery and a warming kick to the sauce. Chop this into thin slices to let the flavors ooze out in the sauce container. You can swap fresh ginger with ground ginger if you still want the ginger’s flavor profile. Use 1/4 to 1/2 tsp ground ginger for every 1 tbsp of fresh ginger.
- Garlic: Garlic adds a nutty and pungent taste to the sauce. You only need to crush the garlic. If you don’t have garlic but want the garlicky flavors, you can substitute 1 clove of garlic with 1/8 tsp of garlic powder or 1/4 tsp of granulated garlic.
- Sugar: The sugar will balance out the salty flavors of the light soy sauce and the tangy taste of the vinegar. You can use any type of sweetener, including white sugar, cane sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup, or coconut sugar.
- Bouillon powder: Chicken bouillon powder enhances the overall taste of the sauce. You can use vegetable powder to make it vegan or vegetarian. Aside from powders, you can also use canned broth or Italian seasoning mix.
- Chinese black vinegar: Look for Chinese black vinegar, Chinkiang vinegar, or Zhenjiang vinegar in Asian grocery stores or Amazon. It is fruity, tangy, and slightly sweet. If you need to replace this, use balsamic vinegar, date vinegar, or red wine vinegar. However, the taste won’t be the same as Chinese black vinegar.
- Light soy sauce: I used a 1:1 ratio for light soy sauce and Chinese black vinegar. It makes the sauce savory, salty, and umami. Aside from regular soy sauce, you can use tamari, liquid aminos, coconut aminos, or gluten-free soy sauce.
- Sesame oil: Lastly, a tablespoon of sesame oil adds a nutty and earthy taste with a slight sweetness. Its nutty taste is strong, which you will not be able to find in other types of oil. However, if you need to replace this, you can use peanut oil, avocado oil, and soybean oil.
How To Store The Dumpling Store
It is best to keep the sauce in a glass container, such as a spice jar or mason jar. It should be airtight to maintain its quality and flavor. Moreover, it prevents the sauce from absorbing odor from other foods in the fridge.
Generally, you can keep it in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. The fresh ingredients used for the sauce are preserved longer because of the light soy sauce and vinegar. Light soy sauce helps prevent microbial spoilage, while the vinegar has a natural preservative because of the acetic acid.
Ingredients And Kitchenware To Prepare
You will need a kitchen knife and chopping board to cut the ingredients. Then, choose your sauce container with a good seal. Here are the ingredients to prepare:
- 2 to 3 stalks of green onions
- 1 ginger (thinly sliced)
- 5 crushed garlic cloves
- 1 tsp of sugar
- 1 tsp of chicken bouillon powder (or vegetable powder)
- 50ml of Zhenjiang vinegar
- 50ml of light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp of sesame oil
How To Make Soy Sauce Vinegar Sauce
Chop the fresh ingredients and combine all the sauces in the container. Check out my Instagram or TikTok tutorial video to learn how I prepared the sauce. If you loved this dipping sauce, don’t forget to try out my other four dumpling sauce recipes and homemade chili oil for dumplings and wontons.
- Cut the green onions and slice the ginger into thin slices.
- Remove the garlic skins and crush them with the knife.
- Combine all the fresh ingredients in a glass container.
- Add sugar and chicken bouillon powder.
- Mix Zhenjiang vinegar and light soy sauce using a 1:1 ratio.
- Finally, add sesame oil.
- Stir well. Give it a taste and adjust the seasonings according to your liking.
- Cover the container and store it in the fridge for later use.
The Best Soy Sauce Vinegar Recipe (Dumpling Sauce)
Ingredients
- 2 to 3 stalks of green onions
- 1 ginger thinly sliced
- 5 crushed garlic cloves
- 1 tsp of sugar
- 1 tsp of chicken bouillon powder or vegetable powder
- 50 ml of Zhenjiang vinegar
- 50 ml of light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp of sesame oil
Instructions
- Cut the green onions and slice the ginger into thin slices.
- Remove the garlic skins and crush them with the knife.
- Combine all the fresh ingredients in a glass container.
- Add sugar and chicken bouillon powder.
- Mix Zhenjiang vinegar and light soy sauce using a 1:1 ratio.
- Finally, add sesame oil.
- Stir well. Give it a taste and adjust the seasonings according to your liking.
- Cover the container and store it in the fridge for later use.
