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🥢 A sweet sauce 🍗 Flavored with sauce
hoisin

hoisin

5.4
Flavored with a thick sweet Chinese sauce made from soybeans
  • adjective
  • /ˈhɔɪsɪn/
translation icon : glaseado con hoisin
  • And then they got the hoisin glazed pork tenderloin with scallion rice, ponzu, roasted green beans and Sriracha Mayo.

But they've got these bow buns that are like hoisin duck, and then they have the chicken gaiosas, which honestly are so good if you like Japanese food.

Examples

  • Actually, today I made some hoisin Vietnamese tacos.

  • But they've got these bow buns that are like hoisin duck, and then they have the chicken gaiosas, which honestly are so good if you like Japanese food.

    Jamie Genevieve

  • The stir-fried vegetables were flavored with hoisin sauce, giving them a deliciously sweet and savory taste.

  • He prepared a hoisin-glazed chicken stir-fry that was both fragrant and flavorful.

  • The chef recommended the hoisin sauce as a perfect complement to the grilled shrimp.

Compounds

hoisin sauce
1 3.9

A thick sweet Chinese sauce used to add flavor to meat and stir-fry

How Flavorful

robust
6 4.5
hoisin
5.4
mild
107 1.0
bland
23 2.0

Surface Forms

hoisin positive

Etymology

The adjective hoisin also comes from Cantonese hoi sin, meaning 'seafood', because the name began as a sauce for seafood. So when a dish is called hoisin (for example, 'hoisin chicken') it means the food is flavored with that sweet, savory Chinese sauce.