Wagamama Amai Sauce

£1.2069 kcalSides & ExtrasVegan

sweet tamarind flavoured sauce

Contains: soya

About This Dish

Wagamama amai sauce costs £1.20 and carries 69 kcal, the sweet tamarind dressing whose name simply means sweet in Japanese: the kids menu's beloved katsu alternative, the saku saku duck's under sauce, and the lightest pot on the sauce shelf by a factor of three.

Amai is the shelf's diplomat: fruit sweetness from tamarind's darker end, no heat whatsoever, and a fat figure of zero that makes its 69 kcal the shelf's smallest spend. Children adopted it first via the kids katsu, and adults borrow it wherever a dish wants sweetness without the firecracker's argument or the katsu pot's weight.

The sugar at 15 g is the honest note, sweetness being the entire job description, and the salt sits mid shelf. The how much question answers at £1.20 as across the list.

Its uses run wider than its billing: a glaze brushed over grilling chicken, a dip for the gyoza plates that outgrows their soy, the duck soba's under sauce recreated at home, and the bridge sauce for young palates graduating toward the katsu family proper.

Order it for mixed age tables where one sauce must offend nobody, and beside the plain rice bowls it sweetens into pudding adjacent comfort. Vegan marked, heatless and cheerful, it is the pot with no enemies in the building.

Wagamama Amai Sauce Nutrition Facts

Per serving.

69kcalCalories3% of daily intake

0.8gProtein2% of daily intake

16.4gCarbs6% of daily intake

14.8gSugars16% of daily intake

0gFat0% of daily intake

0gSaturates0% of daily intake

0.1gFibre1% of daily intake

1.5gSalt24% of daily intake

Values approximate, from wagamama's published data. Updated 08 July 2026.Report an error

How to Make Amai Sauce at Home

A home amai: tamarind, sugar and soy loosened to a pour. Three ingredients, five minutes, and the kids' katsu sauce plus the duck soba's under sauce both live in one jar.

Prep5 min

Cook5 min

Total10 min

DifficultyEasy

Servings

Method

0 of 4 steps

Dissolve Everything warmed together in a small pan, stirred until the sugar and tamarind fully dissolve.
Reduce to a pour Three or four gentle minutes until it coats the back of a spoon loosely; it thickens further as it cools.
Balance Tasted and tuned: sugar toward the kids' setting, vinegar toward the adult one. Jarred, it keeps a fortnight.
Jar and deploy Bottled and fridged it keeps a fortnight, stiffening as it chills. Ten seconds of warmth returns the pour, and the glaze use ends most jars early.

Tips

Tamarind pastes vary wildly; taste before the final sugar spoon commits.
Warm slightly before serving; cold amai stiffens.
Brushed on chicken in the oven's last five minutes it becomes a glaze without a recipe.

Variations

A star anise in the warm settles it toward hoisin's neighbourhood.
Chilli flakes build the sweet hot version no menu prints.
Date syrup for the sugar makes a deeper, softer jar.

Serve with: Kids' katsu plates, gyoza that outgrew soy, and grilled chicken wearing it as a glaze.

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Amai Sauce Questions

How much is the amai sauce?

The pot costs £1.20 with the rest of the extras list. It is the shelf's lightest spend by a factor of three.

What does amai mean?

Sweet, in Japanese, and the sauce delivers exactly that: tamarind's darker fruit sweetness, no heat, no weight. The name is the whole label.

How many calories in the pot?

Wagamama lists 69 kcal with zero fat, the sauce shelf's smallest figures. The 15 g of sugar is the job description rather than a surprise.

Who is it for?

Children first, via the kids katsu where it plays the mild alternative to curry sauce, and any table needing one sauce that offends nobody. The saku saku duck soba runs it under the crispy duck.

Is it vegan?

Marked vegan like the rest of the shelf, shared kitchen wording standing. Heatless, dairyless and cheerful by design.