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hoisin
[HOY-sihn; hoy-SIHN] Also called Peking sauce, this thick, reddish-brown sauce is sweet and spicy, and widely used in Chinese cooking.
It’s a mixture of soybeans, garlic, chile peppers and various spices. Hoisin is mainly used as a table condiment and as a flavoring agent for many meat, poultry and shellfish dishes.
Once opened, canned hoisin should be transferred to a nonmetal container, tightly sealed and refrigerated. Bottled hoisin can be refrigerated as is. Both will keep indefinitely when stored in this manner.
