Condiment
Black Bean Garlic Sauce
S tier
Black bean garlic sauce is douchi (fermented black soybeans) mashed with garlic, often a little soy and sugar: the stir-fry sauce of clams and beef. It should taste of the beans' funk, not only of garlic salt. A spoon in a hot wok. Whole beans are the rustic leaf. Spicy adds chilli.
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Characteristics
Preparations
BeefClamsHot Wok
Traits
CantoneseClam WokDouchi GarlicFerment BeanFunkJarNot Only Garlic SaltSpoon
History
CN
Cantonese kitchens mashed douchi with garlic into a wok sauce.
Jars of black bean garlic sauce made the clam dish a weeknight habit abroad.
Black bean garlic stayed the default jar; whole beans stayed the cook's crock.