Looo Basic Sauce

Looo Basic Sauce

1 c. dark soy sauce
1 c. thin soy sauce
1 c. sugar
2 c. water
3 dried chili peppers
2 ginger root, slices
2 T. five whole flowerets, star-anise
1/2 c. peanut oil
2 cloves garlic, split

Add all ingredients to saucepan, and boil 15 mins.
Refrigerate sauce.

Simmer foods in this sauce, as the foods absorb
the salty taste, you may need to add more soy
sauce to compensate.

Do not use fish in this sauce, if you want to
keep it for a long time.

Basic Sauce is used over and over again to
slow-simmer a number of foods. It imparts its
own flavor to what is cooked, and grows more
savory with the cooking of different foods.