Lee Kum Kee Black bean garlic sauce - 8 oz

by Lee Kum Kee

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Product Description

A savory and ready-to-use sauce with aromatic black beans and garlic. Use in stir-frying and as a dip for steamed dishes. For example, you can stir fry 4 oz diced chicken in 1 tbsp black bean garlic sauce, add 1/2 tsp sugar and diced bell pepper, serve with jasmine rice, enjoy!

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000F08KCU
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,697 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good sauce, September 7, 2011

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chamelean75 (berkeley, california) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lee Kum Kee Black bean garlic sauce - 8 oz (Misc.)

This sauce is salty. Before you use the sauce, you need to TRY IT YOURSELF. Then when you use it, you are only suppose to use it in SMALL quantities as in SMALL spoonfuls. Add a little bit first, taste the dish and then add more. This isn't a type of sauce that you can just slather on to something. When you stir fry with it, lets say, black bean chicken, add a little bit, taste and then add more.

DO NOT ADD ANY ADDITIONAL SOY SAUCE to your dish. Black bean sauce is pretty much black beans, salt, soy sauce and oyster sauce. You do not need to add any additional salt or soy sauce.

I bought this sauce because if I'm short on time and I don't have time to soak black beans, this is a good substitute.

Just a warning, sampling the sauce itself is essential, but it is so salty that it may make you gag. However, it is delicious when used in CORRECT quanitities and spread over meat.

Let me remphasize, SMALL QUANTITIES.

3.0 out of 5 stars Very good but very salty, January 18, 2012

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Apache Fog "big_log" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lee Kum Kee Black bean garlic sauce - 8 oz (Misc.)

Like almost everyone else here seems to have mentioned before me, this is incredibly salty. I'm glad I gave it a few tries to finally get it right because it is a very good sauce when used in moderation. Anything more than 1 tbsp is probably too much, and that might even be pushing it.

4.0 out of 5 stars tasty, but only use in small amounts, January 2, 2012

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Frequent Buyer (NE Wyoming) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lee Kum Kee Black bean garlic sauce - 8 oz (Misc.)

not really a sauce, more of a flavoring agent.
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been eating this for years, specifically in dish of cold noodles with peanut sauce and vegetables. We add just a bit, about 1/4 tsp for a large serving. One needs to treat it like a spice rather than a stir-fry-type sauce. It is very strong, salty, and distinctive.
I could live without it, but I choose not to. I'm not sure I'm willing to pay $9 shipped for this, when I used to be able to find it at Safeway. No more. Waa.