Looing Sauce

This is a Chinese sauce for “red cooking.” You stew things in it, and it imparts a wonderful flavor to just about any sort of meat.

YIELD: 6 1/2 cups

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups soy sauce
• 1 star anise
• 1/2 cup dry sherry (the cheap stuff is fine)
• 4 tablespoons Splenda
• 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
• 4 cups water

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Combine the ingredients well and use the mixture to stew things in.
2. After using Looing Sauce, you can strain it and refrigerate or freeze it to use again, if you like.

PER SERVING:

• 50 grams of usable carbohydrates, but only a very small amount of that is transferred to the foods you stew in it.