Condiments for consideration#

This recipe is a dumpling dipping sauce that is easy and vegan. With a couple of tweaks you can make it gluten free as well. There are plenty of options for dipping sauce certain things for a dipping sauce are essential, some things are optional. This recipe riffs on some of the ideas from the great Woks of Life website.

You do not need to have the best soy sauce in the world. You can get as fancy as you want, but even a standard like Kikkoman will work for this recipe.

Soy sauce is going to provide saltiness, but there is typically hate in this source that comes from the chili, and an acidic zing to the source that will come from vinegar.

With this in mind, you can see that you could flexibly move some of these elements around to experiment. You could add something like Japanese plum based to the soy for sour tang and replace the vinegar and if you don’t have chili oil handy, swapping another super handy go to condiment sample. Olek can add in spiciness to the level that suits your taste buds.

To make a version of this that is going to steer clear of any ingredients that some people might have allergies or intolerances too, you can drop the sesame seeds, don’t use Sesame oil, and swapping a gluten-free Tara instead of soy sauce.

If you have fresh garlic crush that is ideal, but a jar of minced garlic will do the trick just as well. There is a huge flavour difference between dunking your dumplings into the condiment combination that you encounter in this stepping sauce, compared to just soy sauce.

Creative alternatives#

If you want to get creative, a good place to play is with what creates the zing. Ponzu sauce gets this with a citrus edge. If you’re doing it with vinegar try experimenting with different vinegar and see what works. Rice vinegar is traditional, but soy plus balsamic? Or even apple cider? You might be surprised but it still works. Salt plus tank complained with garlic And chili is always going to be a winner. Give it a go. It’s super easy, and you’ll polish off your dumplings even faster than before.