Homemade Browning Sauce
Homemade Browning Sauce is surprisingly easy to make and lasts for months in the fridge!
Ingredients
- 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar or sugar of choice
- 1/2 Cup Room Temp Water separated into two
Instructions
- Make sure you're wearing an oven mit or heat safe glove to protect the hand thats holding the pot. Sugar burns are NOT fun!Put your brown sugar into a small sauce pan on medium heat. Stir this vigorously for about 45 seconds so that each sugar bit is touching the heat. Now, allow the sugar to sit untouched for about 30 seconds. You will start to see the sugar melt in some patches. Continue to stir on and off every couple of seconds. The goal is to get the sugar to melt without burning it. It will take about 5 minutes for the sugar to fully melt.
- Once the sugar has fully melted and liquified, it will turn a gorgeous golden brown color. Continue to alternate between stirring and leaving it alone every few seconds for the next 5 minutes. You will start to see dark brown bubbles appear and the mixture may even start to smoke. Stay calm, you can do this.
- Rapidly, you will see the sugar turn from a golden caramel color to a dark woodsy brown within a couple of seconds. The sugar will kind of go from being a dense liquid to a light, fluffy, and almost airy liquid. See the video below for explanation. This is when the major color change happens.Once the browning color turns to a deep dark brown (almost black), turn off the heat.SLOWLY add in half of your room temp water. We're not using hot water for this recipe. As soon as the water touches the browning, the mixture will bubble up and possibly sputter. Stay calm, you're all good, it's just ~science~. Be safe and mind yuh face.
- Once you've stirred in that water, turn the heat back on medium low. Add in the rest of your water and allow the browning to simmer for the next 35 minutes. Once finished, the browning will look extremely glossy. The browning sauce will still be liquid because it is hot. Once it cools, it will turn into the thick, runny browning texture Jamaican and Caribbean people know and love. Store in a heat safe mason jar and enjoy the fruit of your labor!
Notes
👩🏿🍳Some people use hot water but I don't find it necessary and can make the recipe even more dangerous. For this homemade browning recipe, we're going to be using room temperature water.
👩🏿🍳Once you take your browning off the stove, it will be a bit liquid-y. Trust the process, this will thicken SO much once it cools down into the browning sauce we know and love.
👩🏿🍳Making browning sauce requires burning sugar which is extremely hot. Please be very cautious and careful in the kitchen.
👩🏿🍳View the article for photos that match the step by step instructions and watch he video to see how the process works.