Hoisin Sauce

I found a recipe that looked great today and I really wanted to try it, unfortunately I did not have any hoisin sauce on hand so I thought I would be out of luck.  Then I decided I might as well see if I could find a recipe to make my own hoisin sauce online and I was fortunate because not only did I find a recipe for homemade hoisin sauce I also happened to have all the ingredients I needed on hand in my pantry.
It was so easy to put together and had an amazing flavour I don't think I will buy the store bought variety anymore.  I really like that I had the ability to pick the amount of spice I wanted to put in.

Hoisin Sauce

4 tbsp soy sauce

2 tbsp peanut butter

1 tbsp molases or honey

2 tbsp seasoned rice vinegar

1 garlic clove finely chopped

2 tsp sesame seed oil

1 tsp Chinese hot sauce (or to taste)

1/8 tsp cracked black pepper

1. Combine ingredients into a small bowl.
2. Whisk the ingredients until they are well blended.
   ***You may need to heat it up to really blend in the peanut butter.  I microwaved mine for a minute and then it blended really well.

You can view the original recipe here.