Cantonese XO-Style Sauce

Name: Cantonese XO-Style Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 1¼ cups (280 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: 1 cup (240 ml) Vegetable Oil; 1/2 cup minced (70 g) Shallot; 1/4 cup minced (40 g) Garlic; 1/4 cup soaked chopped (30 g) Dried Shrimp; 2 Tbsp chile flakes (14 g) Gochugaru; 1 Tbsp (15 ml) Soy Sauce; 1 tsp (4 g) Sugar

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Daddy Lau recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Daddy Lau.

CONDIMENT · NOODLES, RICE & VEGETABLES

A condiment for noodles, rice & vegetables.

Made With Lau's Cantonese XO-style sauce.

On the jar

CANTONESE XO

Method: stove
Yield: about 1¼ cups
Ingredients: 7

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Vegetable Oil 240 mlSoy Sauce 15 ml

Ingredients

Vegetable Oil1 cup (240 ml)
Shallot1/2 cup minced (70 g)
Garlic1/4 cup minced (40 g)
Dried Shrimp1/4 cup soaked chopped (30 g)
Gochugaru2 Tbsp chile flakes (14 g)
Soy Sauce1 Tbsp (15 ml)
Sugar1 tsp (4 g)

Method

This sauce is cooked on the stove. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Cook ingredients gently according to the published technique, adapted here as pantry quantities only.
Finish off heat; adjust seasoning.

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Provenance

Cantonese home cook of the Made With Lau YouTube channel with son Randy Lau; James Beard Awards (media). Teaches Cantonese vegetable and sauce technique from a Los Angeles kitchen.

Adapted from a Daddy Lau (Made With Lau) recipe (Made With Lau / Cantonese umami sauces).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Made With Lau / Cantonese umami sauces (published as “Cantonese XO-Style Sauce”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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