Best Gochujang Sauce
This Best Gochujang Sauce recipe is made from Korean Gochujang paste—a rich and savory fermented chili paste. It’s paired with coconut milk and lime, and makes a sweet sauce for veggies, grilled meats, rice, and more.
Gochujang sauce is most often used in Korean recipes, but it’s so delicious that you’ll want to drizzle it over everything! We love it for stir fries, rice bowls, summer rolls, and even adding to grilled meat.
Best Gochujang Sauce
The distinct taste of this Best Gochujang Sauce recipe comes from gochujang, a fermented Korean chili paste made from glutinous rice, fermented soybeans, red chili pepper flakes, and salt. It’s a bit spicy, but gochujang traditionally also gets its gentle sweetness from its fermentation process. They also say gochujang promotes weight loss and kicks up your metabolism, and also improves heart health, lowering blood sugar levels. So in other words, there are health benefits in every bite.
Why I love this Gochujang Sauce
- Delicious on chicken, pork, and fish.
- Adds flavor to any rice bowl.
- Love to use as a dipping sauce
- Comes together in about 20 minutes
Have I told you how good it is on dumplings, shrimp cocktail, healthy Korean beef bowls, salmon bowls, and chicken burgers?
Gather these ingredienets
- Full fat coconut milk
- Gochujang chili paste
- Fish sauce
- Coconut sugar
- Coconut oil
- Limes
- Kosher salt
How do you make
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine the coconut milk, chili paste, fish sauce, salt, and coconut sugar. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer.
- Whisk semi-frequently until the sauce thickens and reduces almost by half.
- Add the coconut oil and whisk until combined. Finish by mixing in the lime juice and zest and tasting for salt.
- Serve hot over chicken, rice, or sautéed veggies.
Tips and substitutions:
- Replace coconut sugar with honey, maple syrup, or agave.
- Make different levels of heat with gochujang, ranging from mild to hot.
- Find gochujang in grocery stores, usually in the international aisle, but you can also buy a good brand online.
- You can buy Coconut Secret brand (gluten free, vegan, and mildly spiced). But each brand has its own spice level and unique flavor.
How do you serve the sauce?
- This sauce is perfect for noodles or rice dishes, but you definitely do not need to limit its use to Korean food. We love it for a “basic dipping sauce,” which means there are many ways to use it.
- Think of a spicy ramen, a dipping sauce for shrimp or chicken, spooning small amounts over pizza or even wings (instead of traditional Buffalo wing sauce).
- We really love it drizzled over salmon, beef, shrimp or chicken stir fry.
- It’s a great marinade for all meats, but specifically Korean fried chicken.
Storage
Store gochujang in the refrigerator in an airtight container. It will last 2 weeks or longer.
You can also freeze the sauce and thaw for later use.
Bring on the flavor for your next dinner by adding this amazing sauce!
ENJOY!
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Best Gochujang Sauce
Ingredients
- ⅔ c full fat coconut milk
- 3-4 Tbsp Gochujang chili paste
- 1-2 Tbsp fish sauce
- 3 Tbsp coconut sugar
- 1 Tbsp coconut oil
- 2-3 limes, juiced
- 2 limes, zested
- 1 tsp kosher salt, plus more to taste
Instructions
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine the coconut milk, chili paste, fish sauce, salt, and coconut sugar. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer. Whisk semi-frequently until the sauce thickens and reduces almost by half—8-10 minutes.
- Add the coconut oil and whisk until combined. Finish by mixing in the lime juice and zest and tasting for salt. Serve hot over chicken, rice, or sautéed veggies.
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