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The BEST Vegan Teriyaki Sauce (Soy Free!)

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Learn how to make the most delicious Best Vegan Gluten-Free Teriyaki Sauce totally oil-free and soy-free! Loaded with flavor and made with coconut aminos, fresh ginger and chives, it will become your go-to teriyaki sauce.

Sesame Teriyaki vegan sauce drizzling off spoon in jar

Meet my new best friend. Sauces can be best friends, can’t they? I originally fell in love with the Teriyaki sauce made by Coconut Secret. It is really delicious and the best list of clean ingredients I’ve seen in teriyaki sauce. But, like with anything, I love to recreate my own homemade sauces. They are fresher, cheaper and can be tailor-made. Well, I think I not only nailed the store-bought version, additionally, I made it oil-free. It’s also made with Coconut aminos, instead of soy sauce, so it’s totally soy-free, whoop!

This sauce is so delicious and so popular with readers that I included it in my cookbook! I have a Teriyaki Burger in the book too and it was featured on NBC News!

THE BEST INGREDIENTS FOR VEGAN TERIYAKI SAUCE

This isn’t your average tasting vegan teriyaki sauce. This teriyaki sauce has 8 delicious ingredients:

  • fresh ginger
  • fresh garlic
  • green chives
  • toasted sesame seeds
  • coconut aminos
  • maple syrup
  • brown rice flour
  • cayenne

Spoon holding vegan teriayki sauce with scattered sesame seeds

THIS TERIYAKI SAUCE WILL BECOME YOUR GO-TO

Eating this with a spoon is likely going to happen for you too, just warning you now. If you aren’t familiar with teriyaki sauce, basically it is a sweet and salty Japanese sauce that is much more sweet than say, a peanut sauce. It has a syrup consistency and really sticks to your food. I lived in Japan many, many years ago, but I don’t know if I ever had any while there. My version is naturally sweetened by using pure maple syrup, instead of refined sugars like brown or white sugar. Much better flavor too, in my opinion.

This vegan teriyaki sauce will go on just about anything your heart desires. In other words, you will want to add it on top of fluffy brown rice, peas and some carrots and drizzled some of this bad boy sauce on it, added extra chives and sesame seeds and it was like the best party in my mouth I’ve had all year. The recipe require just 8 ingredients (+ water).

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Vegan Teriyaki sauce with spoon and jar

The Best Vegan Teriyaki Sauce (Soy Free!)

Brandi Doming
Best Vegan Gluten-Free Teriyaki Sauce totally oil-free, gluten-free and soy-free! Loaded with flavor and made with coconut aminos, fresh ginger and chives, it will become your go-to teriyaki sauce.
5 from 43 votes
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 10 minutes mins
Total Time 20 minutes mins
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Asian, Gluten-free, Vegan
Yields 1 1/4 cups

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup (180g) coconut aminos (this is sweeter and less salty than soy sauce and important-SEE NOTES)
  • 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons (120g) pure maple syrup
  • 1/4 cup (60g) water
  • heaping 1/2 tablespoon finely minced ginger (8g)
  • 1 teaspoon (4g) minced garlic
  • 1 tablespoon (3g) finely chopped chives
  • 1/2 tablespoon (5g) toasted sesame seeds
  • 1/16 - 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons (15g) brown rice flour
  • I use this scale.

Instructions
 

  • Add all of the ingredients, except the rice flour, to a small pot and whisk together well. Now whisk in the brown rice flour until there are no lumps.
  • Turn the heat to medium and once the entire surface is bubbling, let it cook for about 5-7 minutes as it starts to reduce a bit. Whisk around the edges a couple of times while it cooks. Remove from the heat and leave to cool for 5 minutes. It should have a runny syrup consistency as it cools. If it's not a syrup consistency after a few minutes, cook just a couple more minutes. It should not be overly thick, but easily pourable, so it works well for dishes and drizzling. Traditional Japanese Teriyaki is not thick. Use over your favorite dish. I served it over some fluffy brown rice and peas and carrots, then topped with extra chives and sesame seeds. This would also be great over cauliflower wings as a great dipping sauce.
  • To serve this with peas and carrots, zucchini or broccoli, simply cook them in a pan over the stove in a little bit of water, pinch of salt and pepper, and garlic powder until tender. I cook my broccoli in a large wok separately to reach desired tenderness.

Notes

Make sure you are using strictly "coconut aminos". I like the coconut secret brand found at Sprouts, Whole foods, Target or online or the Big Tree Farms "Coco Aminos" is good, too. Make sure you are not using "liquid aminos" or regular soy sauce, or it will be WAY too salty.
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Keyword healthy teriyaki sauce recipe, homemade teriyaki sauce, teriyaki sauce soy free, vegan gluten free teriyaki sauce, vegan teriyaki sauce

Filed Under: Appetizers, Dips/Sauces, Gluten Free, Kid Friendly, Nut Free Tagged With: Chives, garlic, Ginger, Sauce, Sesame seeds, Teriyaki

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  1. Jenn

    June 2, 2024 at 9:27 pm

    I am allergic to soy and ginger and am a salt addict, so I use coconut aminos but add extra salt and just leave out the ginger. Super fantastically delicious!!! Thank you so much for this recipe! You and other amazing souls of online recipe sharing are superheroes that have helped me completely upend my diet three times in the past 18 months to solve my immune system crisis. Please, Please eat whole food grown in the Earth friends. Learn what you’re consuming and what it is doing to your cells. Your life truly does depend on it. Thank you again for this recipe. My whole family loves it.

    Reply
  2. Kayce

    February 26, 2024 at 9:20 pm

    Anything I can do instead of sesame? Thanks! Excited to try

    Reply
    • brandi.doming@yahoo.com

      February 26, 2024 at 10:32 pm

      You can just leave them out!

      Reply
  3. Laurie-Ann

    November 7, 2023 at 3:49 am

    5 stars
    Trying this recipe tonight to use as marinade for tofu. Tastes so yummy

    Reply
    • brandi.doming@yahoo.com

      November 8, 2023 at 12:54 am

      Yay!!

      Reply
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