Sauces & Condiments Chinese ✦ Inspired by: Rick and Morty

Rick & Morty’s Szechuan Sauce

Hoisin, vinegar, pepper, lemon, Marmite and sesame oil make a tiny, intensely savoury Szechuan-inspired sauce that takes almost no time and still somehow arrives with fandom baggage.

Rick & Morty’s Szechuan Sauce

What It Is

Hoisin, vinegar, pepper, lemon, Marmite and sesame oil make a tiny, intensely savoury Szechuan-inspired sauce that takes almost no time and still somehow arrives with fandom baggage.

Origin

This is a Rick and Morty-inspired Szechuan-style dipping sauce. It is not a traditional Sichuan sauce and does not pretend six ingredients can summarize an entire regional cuisine.

Fun Fact

Real Sichuan cuisine is famous for ma-la flavour: numbing Sichuan pepper paired with chili heat. This fandom sauce goes in a completely different direction.

Prep
5 min
Cook
—
Total
5 min
Servings
3 tbsps
(or 1, if you don't believe in sharing)
Difficulty
easy
Gluten-Free Dairy-Free
Diet
Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Low-Carb
Away Mission
10 min walk
(or beam directly past it, if the transporter's working today)
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Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp hoisin sauce
  • ½ tsp white vinegar
  • ½ tsp cracked black pepper
  • ¼ tsp lemon juice
  • ¼ tsp Marmite
  • ¼ tsp sesame oil

Steps

  1. Blend or whisk all ingredients together until smooth.
  2. Cover and chill before serving.
  3. Use as a dip or a marinade for meat.

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Notes

No, finding this sauce will not complete your character arc. It may, however, make chicken nuggets substantially less depressing.

Nutrition Facts
Per 1 tbsp
Calories 45
Burning this off: about a full driveway of January snow, shovelled with feeling.
% Daily Value*
Fat 0.0 g 0%
Saturated + Trans 0 g 0%
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 0 mg 0%
Carbohydrate 11.0 g
Fibre 0.0 g 0%
Sugars 10.0 g 10%
Protein 0.0 g
Potassium 5 mg 0%
Calcium 0 mg 0%
Iron 0.0 mg 0%
*5% or less is a little, 15% or more is a lot. Sodium levels calculated in a country with universal healthcare — and it's free, so don't worry about it too much.
A genuinely respectable nutrition profile. No red flags here — go ahead and feel a little smug about it.

Substitutions

Soy sauce can replace hoisin in a pinch, though you'll lose the sweetness hoisin brings. Any dark vinegar can stand in for white vinegar for a deeper flavour. Marmite is doing something specific and hard to replace here — Worcestershire is the closest reasonable stand-in if you truly can't find it.

Storage

Store in a sealed jar in the fridge for up to 2 weeks — this sauce holds up well thanks to the vinegar and soy base, no interdimensional preservation required.

Freezing

Freezing is usually unnecessary for a small batch of sauce. If you do freeze it, use small portions and expect creamy or emulsified sauces to need a good whisk after thawing.