6 Best Teppanyaki Hibachi Restaurant-Style Sauce Recipes

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Hibachi restaurants and their teppanyaki-style cooking offer some of the best sauces you’ll ever taste. But, how would you make those at home, you ask?

There are 6 main sauces to get to know if you want those delicious hibachi flavors to go with your meat and vegetables. So I’ve made these easy-to-follow recipes for mustard, ginger, sesame, and soy sauce.

Let’s make some of these flavors ourselves so you can enjoy them at home!

Best teppanyaki hibachi sauce recipes

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Top 6 hibachi sauce recipes

Japanese Hibachi Mustard Sauce

Japanese Hibachi Mustard Sauce Recipe
Great as a dipping sauce for Japanese BBQ and teppanyaki-style dishes!
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Japanese teppanyaki mustard recipes

This mustard sauce can taste sweet or spicy, depending on what kinds of food it’ll be used to pair with. And it’s eaten cold in small amounts, especially with meat.

This best-kept secret of Japanese hibachi-style steakhouse restaurants will make you want to make it over and over again.

And that’s fine, it’s great to eat with any type of meat, so don’t limit yourself to teppanyaki or hibachi, just pair it with your steak or other beef, and you’ll be good to go.

Japanese ginger dipping sauce

Japanese ginger dipping sauce
If you prefer something different, this ginger sauce recipe is a good option if you want to make your teppanyaki dish extra special.
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Japanese ginger dipping sauce

Soy sauce and vinegar are the most common ingredients used in Japanese sauces. Sake, ponzu, and mirin are also popular.

These ingredients can be used as standalone sauces or can be combined with other ingredients.

Usually, the ingredients are mixed together in a bowl. Take a look at my buying guide for a few handy tools to use for teppanyaki.

Is hibachi ginger sauce gluten-free?

Hibachi ginger sauce is not gluten-free because it has soy sauce in it. You could make it with tamari instead of soy sauce, but then chances are the sake used still has gluten in it. Only premium sake won’t have gluten.

Seafood Teppanyaki with Japanese sesame sauce

Seafood Teppanyaki recipe
The food can be served either with rice or on its own. A variety of sauces can also be included in the dish to give it taste. 
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This is a great sauce to add to your seafood teppanyaki that’s straight from the hibachi restaurant.

Japanese sesame sauce

  • 3 tbsp sake
  • 2 tbsp nerigoma (tahini sauce)
  • 1 tbsp ponzu
  • 1 tbsp miso
  • 2 tsp canola oil
  • 2 tsp sesame oil (roasted)
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp rice vinegar
  • 1 tsp mirin
  • 1 clove garlic minced

Teppanyaki twist of Soy Sauce

Teppanyaki twist of Soy Sauce
A classic teppanyaki sauce recipe with soy sauce flavor in it. 
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teppanyaki-sauce

Raise your hand if you ever wanted to try those grilled Japanese dishes that are made right in front of you on a grill and served with mouthwatering flavored sauce.

Now we don’t have to go all the way to Japan or find a Japanese steakhouse to eat these dishes but you can do these dishes all by yourself in the comfort of your home.

Hibachi restaurant yellow sauce

Hibachi Restaurant Yellow Sauce
Here’s my recipe for a delicious homemade hibachi restaurant yellow sauce. With only a few pantry staple ingredients, you often already have everything at home to make this sauce. And the best part is: no cooking is required! You can whip up this tasty sauce anywhere.
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Make Hibachi Restaurant Yellow Sauce at Home | Easier Than You Think

One thing I’ve known throughout my Japanese cooking and eating experience? When there’s hibachi mentioned before anything, it’s already awesome. No further questions.

Hibachi restaurant sauce stands as no exception. Made with plenty but easily accessible ingredients, the flavor it brings to your favorite protein meals is something worth swooned-over.

What you need to do is just mix up the following ingredients with a proper whisk, rest it, and then serve it with anything you like but want to love!

Hibachi restaurant salad dressing

Hibachi Restaurant Salad Dressing
Here's my take on the hibachi restaurant salad dressing recipe, a light and flavorful blend of umami-rich ingredients. It requires hardly any cooking, simply a quick toasting of the sesame seeds and whisking together of the elements. Use with any salad, from simple salad greens to a shredded carrot and cabbage salad.
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Hibachi Restaurant Salad Dressing | Light & Flavorful

Okay, as much as I love lunching and brunching on salads to maintain healthy and balanced eating habits, let’s agree on one thing- they are pretty bland, to begin with.

While a little black pepper and salt always do the trick for me, the craving for that extra flavor never disappears.

So when I have some time to spare, I use it to make hibachi restaurant salad dressing.

It’s a delicious blend of pretty basic ingredients. But when combined, they make a pretty deadly combination that is surely going to tantalize your tastebuds.

There’s a little sugar in there, but you can always replace it with honey to make it fit into your health regimen.

Best hibachi restaurant sauce recipes

6 Best Hibachi Teppanyaki Sauce Recipes

Joost Nusselder
Hibachi restaurants where they cook teppanyaki in front of you have one thing you remember them for: the delicious sauces. Let's learn how to make the best hibachi sauces!
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Prep Time 3 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 13 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 bottle soy sauce
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 white onion sliced
  • 2 clove garlic or any amount you prefer
  • 1/4 lemon sliced

Instructions
 

The most basic delicious hibachi restaurant style sauce

  • Boil the sliced onion and soy sauce in water in a pot.
  • After everything has been boiled, add the garlic in the mixture.
  • Then store the whole thing inside a bowl and let it stay like that for about a week. After
    everything settles down, strain to remove any uneven lumps and the pieces of onion from the sauce and add a dash of lemon juice.

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Is hibachi a sauce?

Hibachi itself doesn’t mean sauce but people often associate hibachi restaurants with the delicious sauces they serve.

Hibachi means fire bowl, and it refers to the open flame grill they use in the kitchen. The grill they cook on in front of you is called a teppan.

Conclusion

Make one or a few of these delicious hibachi sauces to dip your grilled meat and vegetables in, and you’re set for a great teppanyaki meal!

Want to make hibachi at home? I’ve reviewed the best Japanese tabletop grills here

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Joost Nusselder, the founder of Bite My Bun is a content marketer, dad and loves trying out new food with Japanese food at the heart of his passion, and together with his team he's been creating in-depth blog articles since 2016 to help loyal readers with recipes and cooking tips.