hoisin sauce

[ hoi-sin-saws, hoi-sin ]

/ hɔɪˈsɪn ˌsɔs, ˈhɔɪ sɪn /

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noun Chinese Cooking.

a thick, sweet, spicy condiment containing soybeans, sugar, garlic, and chile peppers, used in cooking or as an accompaniment to meat, fish, or poultry, especially Peking duck.

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Origin of hoisin sauce

First recorded in 1960–65; from dialectal Chinese (Guangdong) hóisīn, equivalent to Chinese hǎixiān “seafood”

Words nearby hoisin sauce

hoicks, hoiden, hoi polloi, hoise, hoisin, hoisin sauce, hoist, hoist by one's own petard, hoity-toity, Hojo, hoka

Example sentences from the Web for hoisin sauce

Serve with the warm sauce and your choice of ice cream, whipped cream, or yogurt.
Make ‘The Chew’s’ Carla Hall’s Sticky Toffee Pudding|Carla Hall|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Combine the beans and onion sauce in a 9x9-inch casserole dish and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
Make Carla Hall’s Crispy Shallot Green Bean Casserole|Carla Hall|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Continue to cook until the sauce has reduced by three quarters.
Make Carla Hall’s Roasted Pork Loin With Cranberries|Carla Hall|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Finish the sauce by putting the roasting pan on the stovetop over medium-high heat.
Make Carla Hall’s Roasted Pork Loin With Cranberries|Carla Hall|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The future congressman also had some spaghetti but no sauce.
Kerry Bentivolio: The Congressman Who Believes in Santa Claus|Ben Jacobs|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Marriage is like Mayonnaise sauce, either a great success or an absolute and entire failure.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
It is to be feared that like the sauce of sauces in the hands of the inexperienced cook, the result is more than doubtful.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Mac took that pretty hard, and came mighty near making the major eat his words with gunpowder sauce on the side.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
I must first make a dish of apple-sauce for the seven and seventy guests who are coming to my wedding-feast.
The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1|Various
From the tables outside, one can see into the small kitchen, with its polished copper sauce-pans hanging about the grill.
The Real Latin Quarter|F. Berkeley Smith

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