OK, back from a great visit to Coquitlam to see Grandma Mom and Grandpa Jack. I saw some great rock shows with my buddy Bob and my brother Matt and watched some Kingdom of Heaven and ton of football. I’ll blog more later, but I wanted to quickly throw up on the blog a repeat of the Japanese Village Steak Sauce recipe because I yapped about it on the countdown this weekend but did not have it easy to find on the blog. I came into work to a ton of emails wondering where the heck it is amongst all the jibber jabber.
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A Japanese Village Type Steak Sauce
makes a bunch, so consider halving the recipe
1 cup toasted sesame seeds
1 1/3 cup Vegetable oil
1 cup low sodium Soy Sauce
1/3 chopped white onion
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
The Zoner was very specific on a couple points.
01) It MUST be vegetable oil. She did not get into the reasoning, only that you shouldn’t deviate from vegetable oil
02) the low sodium soy sauce. Regular soy sauce will make your sauce too salty. sad Fugee face 
Coral and I took the toasted sesame seeds and put them in our coffee grinder first. That turned them into a fine pulp type mixture.
Then we dumped that mess into our blender with the chopped onion, soy sauce, oil and we didn’t have any Dijon mustard so we used English hot mustard.
Blend blend blend.
Coral opened the blender and took one smell. She turned to me with a grin that went ear-to-ear. We did it.
Fried up some pan steaks, some minute rice and mushrooms, sprouts, peppers, zucchini and voila… Japanese Village in front of the LCD screen showing Blair looking all hot and bothered on Gossip Girl.
Oh. My God.
I am starving now. That sounds delicious and my mouth is watering just reading that recipe.
Do you heat the sauce up after you blend it? I think I’m going to create this for dinner sometime this week.
Steak Sauce Japanese Village.
I just wanted you to know that your missing a few ingredients.
You should use low sodium Soy sauce
you will need egg yolks to blend with the oil so it doesn’t separate and createds the creamy texture. And finish with 1/2 and 1/2 cream. No water…
Enjoy Jen
Jen that is awesome, but the recipe I got was form a person that worked there. They were pretty adamant about no dairy.
and I think I said low sodium. It really makes a difference to use low salt soy sauce.
as for the egg whites? interesting idea. I find the one my wife and I make, doesn’t separate…
yeah, just a quick microwave and its gold.
You are pretty much a god to me. I have been looking for this weeks now, tried different ideas of what i thought it could be, i wasn’t even close. When i was studying with the Zone playing in the back ground, i heard Japanese village and my ears perked up. Could this be the end of my search… i think it is.
Thanks big time
Phaedra
thank you Phaedra for finding my blog. It is the sauce and it is glorious.
THANK YOU!! This recipe has made my decade. I have tried every single JV steak sauce recipe on the Internet and none have been right until this simple, yet perfect, recipe. Don’t be fooled by the garlic, cream, and “english mustard” tricks found in the other recipes… they are just decoys to make us all think it’s so much more complicated.
Jeremy, you are a hero to many. This type of investigative journalism needs to be recognized properly — if a Pulitzer judge was a steak sauce addict like so many in Victoria, you’d be a shoe-in.
BTW, now that the secret is out, I think the honorable move from the JV gods would be to stop being steak-sauce nazi’s and sell their liquid heaven by the bottle.
why buy Dan, when you can make?
Why buy? Well, I can make a lasagna, but I still buy the $5 pre-made thing from Costco. It’s a matter of laziness. Second, the real deal is still marginally better (probably because it has the JV ‘label’). And third, now that the secret is out, someone else will (should) start to make and sell it; then, JV has nothing.
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I’m Out! 🙂
hey by any chance your zoner never happened to give you the sauce recipe for the yaki shrimp?
hey Jay… sadly no, but maybe I can track that down?
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this recipe:) I have been going to JV in Calgary for 30 years because the steak sauce is my crack. Now I can ‘free base’ at home:)LOL
Thank you again and keep up the good eatin’!
Rachel
@Dan – there is a sushi place (not a good one IMO) in the strip mall at Heritage and MacLeod in Calgary (the same one with a Safeway) that does sell the stuff by the bottle. That’s the only place I’ve seen it, and I haven’t tried it… but options.
It wasn’t until after I’d fully read this post and already been so stoked on the fact that I had possibly stumbled upon the real JV steak sauce that I figured out that this blog belonged to one of my fave broadcasters on the best radio station in Victoria! Double whammy!
SO proud to be a Victorian right now. Thanks, Jeremy! You’ve made my month!
so happy Caitlin you found my blog and listen to the Zone 🙂
Can’t WAIT to make it! Been an addict for years! Thanks so much for sharing!! Any luck with the yaki shrimp “yummy yummy” sauce? 🙂
Yaki Shrimp sauce? hmmmm
Mine didn’t turn out – did u use roasted or toasted cause they sell both – toasted are darker and my sauce was darker so I thought maybe I should try it with the other ones – and is the one cup measured before or after you grind the seeds – trying to figure out what I did wrong.
hmmm, I buy untoasted. Measure out the cup… toast them, then put them in a coffee grinder. then add them to the blender (when I have the time to do that.)
Seems to work for me.
I will try that – maybe the store bought roasted or toasted are different somehow. I was trying to cheat and skip a step 😉 but I have a funny story for you…I live in the states (portland, OR) and used to live in Vic and like so many, I am in love with JV steak sauce. So I googled it and your blog post was one of the first to come up…I was reading, oblivious at first to the name of your blog and all that (didn’t care who u were as long as u had the goods on my sauce! Haha) anyways, read your story and realized…coral…morning after….I used to work with Coral at student loans! Ha! Small world! Tell her I say hi! …and thanks for the recipe 🙂
1/2 C Raw White Sesame Seeds
2 tsp English Mustard, powdered
2/3 C Soy Sauce
2/3 C Vegetable Oil
1 TBSP Garlic, freshly ground
1/2 C Onion, freshly ground
THIS IS THE RECIPIE EVERYONE IS CLAIMING. They claim that is the recipie but its not exacly it. Its close and if you have made it you know what i mean. How to perfect it. Make sure you use garlic pressed not powder. Used hot mustard powder. After blending all of the ingrediants what you have to do to make this is add 1 cup of helmans Mayonaise. MUST BE HELMANS dont use anything but helmans because it won’t taste the same. After adding mayo then cook on stove medium heat for 5 minutes. The end result is the same as japanese village, believe me i know
hmm… so many variations. I took spoke with someone who works at our local Japanese Village. he advised that not only does it need to be low sodium, but that it needs to be japanese soy sauce… specifically they use Yamasa brand. I use mustard powder (the mustard is the emulsifyer for the oil by the way), onion flakes, not fresh, definitely fresh garlic and roasted sesame seeds. Always the veg oil. I couldn’t tell you why either, but whatever.
We don’t heat it up… they don’t heat it up at Japanese Village either. No mayo… you already have the oil/mustard combo so there is no need.
But honestly? if we have all come up with variations that please our palates and make us think we’ve cracked the code, then good on us!! Enjoy!
how come the steak sauce ive had has black sesame seeds in it but none of the recipes do?
I wish I had an answer fro you Kelsey… this sauce does taste pretty epic so give it a try!
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