sweet bean sauce

noun

A thick, dark paste used in East Asian cuisine, made from fermented wheat flour with soybeans.

Meanings

nounsweet bean sauce (countable and uncountable, plural sweet bean sauces)

plural sweet bean sauces

  1. countableuncountableA thick, dark paste used in East Asian cuisine, made from fermented wheat flour with soybeans.
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