| If other people use red wine or vinegar in their | | | | almost always seems sweet, it is because of this |
| cooking, there is also Japanese cooking wine. | | | | Japanese cooking wine. Teriyaki is a sweet sauce |
| Thanks to the ever-increasing popularity of | | | | in Japanese dishes, and its main ingredient is mirin. |
| Japanese food, this can be found in your local | | | | Mirin is composed of about forty to fifty percent |
| grocery store. Also called mirin, Japanese cooking | | | | sugar. |
| wine is a sweet rice wine that is a mixture of | | | | It is found in bottles, and has a light gold colour. |
| steamed rice, rice yeast, and liquor, which is then | | | | Almost all supermarkets and grocery stores now |
| fermented. First used as an alcoholic beverage, | | | | carry mirin. Look for it in the international foods |
| today, it is primarily used for cooking purposes, as | | | | section, and not in wine sections. |
| it is made to be sweeter and thicker. | | | | One of the reasons why mirin is popular for |
| Many people confuse mirin with sake, as both are | | | | preparing Japanese dishes is because most of |
| Japanese wine. Mirin has lower alcohol content | | | | their food includes fish and other seafood; mirin is |
| than sake, and the different kinds of mirin differ in | | | | a good ingredient that takes away the smell of |
| their alcohol content. Mirin that has less than a | | | | seafood. Truly, the Japanese cooking wine or mirin |
| percent of alcohol is called shin mirin, while mirin | | | | is an ingredient no Japanese kitchen can do |
| with fourteen percent alcohol is hon mirin. They | | | | without. It is as common as soy sauce, and both |
| both taste the same, so many opt for shin mirin | | | | are in fact used frequently in preparing Japanese |
| for cooking. Sake has twenty percent alcohol. | | | | dishes. |
| Also, if you have noticed that Japanese food | | | | |