There are a few brands of gluten free soy sauce or tamari on the market.

Tamari soy sauce is usually produced without wheat. 

Although, when Japanese soy sauce was first introduced to the market place it was sold as tamari even though it contained wheat.

"True" tamari is a wheat and gluten free soy sauce.  However, other types of shoyu or soy sauce are not gluten free and are usually fermented with wheat.

These brands carry a gluten free Tamari soy sauce:

• San-J
• Eden Foods
• Kikkoman

Highly sensitive individuals who need a gluten free soy sauce should only use one that is advertised as "gluten free" and the list of ingredients should not include wheat. 

A lot of people will also need to lower their salt intake - soy sauce is very salty! 

At least one of these brands will offer you a naturally brewed organic lower-sodium gluten free Tamari soy sauce (that was a mouth full - lol).

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. Chicken Breasts or Thighs (boneless & skinless)
• Black Pepper (to taste)
• Scallions or Green Onions for Garnish
  
• Homemade Teriyaki Sauce (1/4 cup organic honey, 3/4 cup low sodium soy sauce, & 1 1/4 tsp. minced ginger - simmered for 5 minutes)

Instructions:

1. If using chicken breasts - pound until 1/2 inch thick and cut chicken breasts in half - season with pepper.
2. Heat 4 tsp. of a healthy cooking oil in a large frying pan on med-high heat.
3. Add the chicken breasts or thighs to the hot pan and cook for about 3 minutes or until browned.
4. Then flip chicken over to cook the other side for another 3 minutes or until browned.
5. Reduce pan to medium heat and add in some teriyaki sauce. 
6. Turn the chicken in the teriyaki sauce for about 3 minutes to finish cooking and to flavor the chicken.
7. Take the chicken out of the pan and reduce teriyaki sauce recipe for about 3 more minutes.
8. Slice the chicken and pour reduced teriyaki sauce over the chicken.
9. Top teriyaki chicken with scallions or green onions.

When you make your own teriyaki sauce recipe, you can alter the ingredients to suit your own needs.

For example, you can use a low-sodium soy sauce or water down a gluten free soy sauce.  And you can also use your preferred choice of sweeteners.

There are two processes to make soy sauce - the chemical way or the natural fermentation way.

Naturally fermented or brewed soy sauce is much better tasting and much much safer than the soy sauce made chemically.

However, the cost of the chemically produced soy sauce is much cheaper, so be very careful when dining out at a sushi bar or at a restaurant that offers you soy sauce.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup Filtered Water
• 3/4 cup Organic Tamari or Low Sodium Soy Sauce (traditionally fermented)
• 2 Tbsp. Organic Raw Brown Sugar (or to taste)
• 1 Clove Garlic (pressed)
• Freshly Grated Ginger (to taste)
• 2 Tbsp. of Organic Raw Honey (or to taste)

Instructions:

1. Cook to marry the flavors and reduce teriyaki sauce for a few minutes.

Other ingredients like green onions and sesame seeds are also used to flavor a teriyaki sauce.

Mirin is considered another key ingredient in teriyaki sauce recipes which is a sweet cooking wine from Japan. 

And as far as sweeteners go, you can use brown sugar, raw honey, molasses, or whatever sweetener you prefer.

You can add teriyaki sauce to chicken, fish, shrimp, tofu, or any protein you want to flavor with this popular Japanese sauce.

Make teriyaki chicken kabobs or a favorite is stir frying with teriyaki sauce to add more flavor. 

Teriyaki sauce recipes will help to kick up what might have otherwise been a very boring meal.

You can find pre-made teriyaki sauce at most grocery stores in the Asian section, but it's so easy to make your own homemade teriyaki sauce recipes. 

And this way, you'll know what you are consuming!

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