This eel sauce recipe is extremely popular in Japanese culture. You can find it anywhere from sushi topping to barbeque. Frequently it is found on a grilled eel dish, otherwise called unagi, hence why it is called unagi eel sauce! Recipes do no get much simpler than this! Chances are, the toughest part of the recipe is finding the ingredients!

Unagi is the Japanese word for freshwater eel which is an extremely popular dish in that culture. Unagi is typically grilled, roasted, or barbequed and is frequently found as an ingredient in sushi rolls such as the dragon roll. Just like with barbeque sauce on brisket, unagi eel is frequently paired with unagi sauce which is sweet, tangy, and extremely sticky.

Unagi eel sauce is extremely simple to make and only takes three ingredients. The toughest part of making the eel sauce isn’t cooking, it’s finding the mirin! Mirin can be found in many grocery stores if you know where to look. Frequently it is with the Asian spices. Fortunately for you, I have provided a link to purchase a cheap bottle off of Amazon. Mirin comes in a wide variety of price ranges. In my experience, the cheaper bottles taste just as good as the expensive.