XO Sauce: Jammy, Umami, Good on Just About Everything

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here XO Sauce XO sauce is a luxurious condiment—named after XO cognac, even though there is no French booze in it—created in Hong Kong, that has become increasingly popular in American restaurant kitchens over the past decade. And for good reason: It's filled with umami-rich ingredients like dried shrimp, dried scallops, and aged ham that get cooked down into a jammy sauce that can give almost any savory dish a huge flavor boost. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Food Processor   To get the paste to the proper texture, start by pulsing the scallops until they are separated into strands, then pulse the shrimp until coarsely chopped. Shop Now   More Must-Have Condiments Sweet and Sour Sauce Traditional Toum (Lebanese Garlic Sauce) Spicy Mayo for Sushi Cheese Sauce for Cheese Fries and Nachos     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe