Pepper Lunch Honey Garlic Sauce Recipe

I saw this trending on TikTok, and couldn’t resist trying. I modified the sauce recipes and thought this was much closer to what you get at Pepper Lunch. Pepper Lunch is a simple concept.

Thinly sliced beef surround rice, topped with butter, corn, spring onions, cheese if you’re boujee, on a hot skillet. It gets delivered like that to your table sizzling hot, and you drizzle over the two sauces – to your liking. Then you grab your spoon and mix everything together while the beef cooks in the sizzling plate.

When you dine in at Pepper Lunch, there would be two bottles of sauces on the table. One of the sauces is a Honey Soy Sauce, called Amakuchi. The other sauce is a peppery Garlic Soy Sauce, called Karakuchi. You’re suppose to add the sauces to your preferences when your sizzling hotplate arrives at the table and mix it in with everything!

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Personally I prefer the more savoury Karakuchi sauce, but I have to have a bit of that sweeter Amakuchi mixed in too! Add this according to your preference. To start off with, I would add two teaspoons of each sauces to the rice.

Here’s a little secret, if not for this recipe, I would simply make just one sauce! The sauce is basically the Karakuchi recipe, plus honey and onions. That’s it!

If you have leftover sauce, keep it in the fridge! Whip it out as a quick, instant stir fry sauce for your next meal. Note to self to make even more sauce portions next time.

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I used quality shabu shabu beef, which are already thinly sliced beef. You can also just thinly slice beef cuts at home. The best beef cuts to use for this (according to Pepper Lunch) would be chuck tender and shortplate.

If you don’t want to use beef, you can also use chicken or salmon slices, just like at Pepper Lunch. Chicken takes longer to cook, so make sure you leave it on the pan for longer.

The standard and most basic toppings used at Pepper Lunch would be corn and spring onions. You can level it up by adding cheese as well as an egg!

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I would not recommend adding too much additional toppings, because you will probably overcrowd the pan. If you want the added nutrients from vegetables, serve it on the side.

The best way to serve this would be on a cast iron skillet or a hot plate. Let the skillet get hot over a stove, before adding the ingredients and serve it immediately.

Most of us probably do not have the luxury of a hot plate. Just use a pan! In this recipe, that’s exactly what I did. With a pan, you will need to cook everything up over the stove since it will not have the heat retention properties of a cast iron to cook at the table.

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I added the sauces straight in the pan, but what you can do is fry up the rice without the sauces. Serve it that way, and drizzle the sauces after – this way everyone can personalise their bowls of pepper lunch!Side note; I went into my handy thesaurus app, thinking I needed another word for magic, and it came up with this of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra

7 ingredients is all it takes and once you have made it once, you will be left wondering where it has been all of your life!

7 ingredients is all you need! Honey garlic sauce is made of, well… honey and garlic! But also some soy sauce, brown sugar, rice vinegar, water, and cornstarch are used to complete this iconic sauce. 

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Store prepared honey garlic sauce in an airtight container and keep in the refrigerator. Enjoy within 2 weeks, giving it a quick stir before serving.

One clove of minced garlic equals anywhere between about ½ teaspoon to 1 ½ teaspoons, it all depends on the size of the garlic clove. For this recipe I calculate each clove to be approximately ½ teaspoon, totalling about 1 ½ Tablespoons (for 7-8 cloves).

Cornstarch! Cornstarch is a great thickening agent for any sauce. Make sure to mix the cornstarch with a liquid BEFORE adding it to the sauce though. Failing to do so will result in the cornstarch seizing up in the sauce and becoming clumpy.

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I hope you caught that one part, the part where I told you it only takes TEN MINUTES. Sometimes it takes me 10 minutes to find my husband to open the jar of the store bought stuff.

Talking about store bought stuff, I highly recommend using freshly minced garlic for this recipe opposed to the pre-minced, the already in a jar kind. Freshly minced garlic is well, fresher. It has a more pungent flavour and zangy taste, which is exactly what you want for homemade honey garlic sauce!

This honey garlic sauce requires very minimal effort to make, kind of a set it and forget it situation. But keep in mind that it only cooks for five minutes, so don't wander too far.

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First, in a small saucepan, add the soy sauce, firmly packed brown sugar*, honey, garlic (only 5 cloves!) and rice vinegar. In a separate small bowl combine the water and cornstarch, stirring to combine. Now add the cornstarch “slurry” into the saucepan with the other ingredients and whisk to combine everything together.

*Press the brown sugar firmly into the measuring utensil. You can tell brown sugar is firmly packed when it makes a little sandcastle in your bowl.

Cook’s Note- A “slurry” is made when you whisk cornstarch with a liquid BEFORE adding it to the rest of the ingredients. Doing this will prevent the cornstarch from seizing and becoming clumpy.

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Now, place your saucepan over medium heat on the stove and bring it to a boil. Once it is boiling, set your timer for five minutes.

After 5 minutes of boiling, remove the saucepan from the heat and stir in the remaining minced garlic cloves. This adds an extra punch of flavour and makes this honey

Transfer the sauce to a container or serving bowl and let cool slightly or completely before serving. Or pop it in the refrigerator and have a handy jar of sauce ready to go on any dish your heart desires!

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If you have any questions about this recipe, I would be happy to answer them in the comments down below! To get a hold of us, you can shoot us an email or leave a comment down below! We can also be found on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.

Please Note- The nutritional information provided is an estimate based on an online nutrition calculator and it will vary based on the ingredients that you use.

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Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.Pepper Lunch Steak and Rice Sizzleis an amazing dish with sizzling tender sukiyaki beef, pepper, rice and a delicious Amakuchi and Karakuchi sauces that can be on your table in less than 30 minutes.

Pepper Lunch is not a high-end luxury dining experience by any means. As a matter of fact, you have to first place your order into a vending machine and pick out your items to get your food ticket and to retrieve your food.

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However please don't misconstrue. Of course, there are not waitresses fluttering about you waiting on you hand in foot. However, their signature dish is simple, quick, inexpensive, filling, hot, delicious and served to you in a matter of moments.

I first posted this recipe on November 17, 2011 and I have made this Pepper Lunch Steak and Rice Sizzle dish about a million times since then for my family. I have added some helpful hints and I have sorted out the recipe for both the Amakuchi and Karakuchi sauce to the best of my tasting abilities.

You are never going to believe this but they just put in a Pepper Lunch restaurant walking distance from my home, here in Hong Kong. Life is good! However, when I don't feel like fighting the crowds or walking 20 minutes, making this dish at home is a great alternative.

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According to Wikipedia, Pepper Lunch restaurant originated in Japan in1994 by chef and inventor Kunio Ichinose, who wanted to serve quality fast food without hiring a chef. He devised a