My potsticker sauce is soy and vinegar-based, spicy, garlicky, and the most wonderful combination of different Asian spices, seasonings, sauces, and flavors.

Homemade Pot Sticker Dipping Sauce

As much as I love fried wontons, dumplings, and pot stickers, I love the dipping sauce most of all. There are so many different varieties and different names for this amazing Asian-inspired condiment.

I’m not going to kid you here. You’re going to want to open up another tab with Amazon in it because if you have all of these ingredients in your cupboards, you are officially as crazy as I am.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I just don’t know how many of us there could possibly be. 

Don’t let the number of weird ingredients scare you off though. The end result is WAY worth it, and you’ll have enough ingredients for several batches of this wonder sauce, so you won’t have to reorder again for a while. 

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Pot Sticker Sauce Shopping List

Here’s a handy shopping list for you in case you are at the grocery store now, relying on that grocery store wifi, trying to walk and look at your phone and wrangle your kids but still wanna make something awesome for dinner tonight. 😉 Or something. 

• soy sauce
• white vinegar
• seasoned rice vinegar
• gochujang
• gochugaru
• togarashi seasoning
• diced green onions
• diced garlic
• mirin
• sriracha

As you can see, we have a mix of Korean, Japanese, and traditional Chinese ingredients, all coming together in one spicy, umami-heavy sauce. 

Butterflied Chicken Legs with Spicy Chili Garlic Glaze

Chinese Dumpling Dipping Sauce

This sauce is pretty versatile, and you can use it for so many other things besides just pot stickers. 

I like this for Chinese dumplings, egg rolls, and even poured on top of my stir fry. It is the perfect spicy and salty hit to pour over rice, or you could stir in some cornstarch and make a sauce OF this sauce. 

Korean Spicy Stir Fried Chicken and Vegetables

Can this be made mild instead of spicy?

You could omit the spicy ingredients if you aren’t into the heat or need to separate some sauce out that is mild for small children. The spicy ingredients are the gochugang, gochugaru, togarashi, and sriracha.

The rest of the ingredients will still combine to make an amazing sauce, so don’t worry about losing out on too much, but I definitely prefer this in the spicy version, myself. 

Korean Ground Beef Bowl

What can I serve with this pot sticker dipping sauce?

There are a lot of great options here. My favorite thing to serve them with are just frozen potstickers from the grocery store. They are a quick snack after school for the kids, and with all the meat and filling you can seriously make it into a meal if you really wanted to. 

If you want to whip up something yourself, try my fried wontons, egg rolls, pour some over my egg rolls in a bowl, or use to spice up a big bowl of basmati rice topped with my chicken and broccoli stir fry,  or chicken and eggplant stir fry.

Korean Pork Tenderloin