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If you have ever tasted a good teriyaki sauce, you already know the joys of a piece of meat slathered in that sweet, salty, gingery dark sauce.Traditionally, teriyaki is used for grilling. In Japanese, yaki means to cook over direct heat. (Teri means shiny or lustrous, which is the quality of the thickened sauce required for grilling.) Here, we are not cooking over direct heat, so this is a ChefSteps twist. It is also why we use xanthan gum—to thicken the sauce quickly—in this recipe. If you don’t want to use the xanthan gum, your sauce will be thinner, more like a teriyaki marinade. That’s not bad either. Cook pork chops sous vide in this sauce, then pair it with rice, broccoli—teriyaki broccoli is another joy—and green onions. Dinner is served.