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Takoyaki Sauce is used for Takoyaki (Octopus Ball, Octopus Dumplings).
What’s the Best Substitute?
You can use Tonkastsu Sauce.
How to Make Homemade Takoyaki Sauce
If you can’t find Takoyaki Sauce, you can make it with condiments you have in your pantry.
Recipes Using Takoyaki Sauce
Hi 🙂 I have gone through a lot of your recipes and have felt very inspired to cook! You have a ton of awesome recipes as well, and I am very grateful for them I’ve always wanted to make my own Chuno sauce, especially for Takoyaki and Yakosoba.
On I wanted to leave a message also to ask if you can check the Takoyaki sauce recipe, you have T tbsp mentsuyu. I just thought I’d let you know in case there were other people who were interested. Thank you for a wonderful site!
Hi Emi! Thank you so much for your kind words and I’m so happy you’re inspired to cook Japanese food! 🙂
Thank you for letting me know. I actually worked on all the recipes for Tonkatsu, Yakisoba, and Takoyaki sauces today and I have to say Takoyaki sauce was the closest to the real one! I’m so proud of myself. 😀
Please check the link again as I fixed it and updated. THANK YOU!
https://www.justonecookbook.com/pantry/tonkatsu-sauce/
I am absolutely in LOVE with Japan. Their culture, music, style, and food!! I’m so happy I found your website!! I am only missing a way to get most of the ingredients to make these amazing dishes! My parents call me crazy to see their teenage daughter wanting takoyaki sauce or hon dashi for christmas or her birthday. To be honest, I haven’t even cooked one Japanese meal yet, but I really want to!!! Do you know a way I can order Japanese ingredients fast and easy?
Hi Tatiana! I’m happy to hear that you enjoy Japanese cultures, and that you found my site! I’m not sure where you live, but if you live in the US. There are some online Japanese stores that are available such as:
http://www.marukaiestore.com/
http://shop.mitsuwa.com/eng/eindex
http://www.asianfoodgrocer.com/
Hope this helps. 🙂
Hello Nami!
I just recently came back from my amazing trip to Japan and actually bought a bottle of Takoyaki sauce out of impulse, not really knowing what it was haha, when I got back home to Australia though I realised I can’t make takoyaki because I don’t own a cake pop / takoyaki maker .. so I was wondering what are some other ways I can use up my unopened bottle of takoyaki sauce? As a stir fry sauce perhaps? 🙂
Thank you for your amazing recipes by the way, they make me so nostalgic of my trip!
Hi Crystal! Takoyaki sauce is similar to Tonkatsu and Yakisoba sauce, so you can use it for those recipes, or I’d recommend to use for panko fried dishes such as Korokke (croquette), Ebi Fry (fried prawn), Chicken katsu, tonkatsu, etc etc.
I sometimes use it for fried rice too – only when I put katsu in the fried rice… so delicious. 😀
Thank you so much for reading my blog! I’m so glad to hear you enjoy it. 🙂