Kim’s Zippy Sauce

  4.1 – 18 reviews  • Sauces

I leave the tomato skins on for this vegan tomato soup recipe since they are packed with vitamins and fiber. You won’t taste them if you thoroughly purée the soup. I use a combination of cherry and normal tomatoes.

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 1 mins
Total Time: 11 mins
Servings: 8
Yield: 1 cup

Ingredients

  1. ¼ cup butter
  2. 1 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
  3. ¼ teaspoon dried thyme, crushed
  4. ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
  5. 1 teaspoon dried parsley
  6. 1 teaspoon salt
  7. 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  8. ½ teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
  9. 1 ½ tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
  10. ¼ teaspoon ground cumin
  11. ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
  12. ⅓ cup beef drippings

Instructions

  1. Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the rosemary, thyme, garlic powder, parsley flakes and salt. Mix in the mustard, black pepper, Worcestershire sauce, cumin, and cayenne pepper. Warm gently for about a minute. Mix equal parts of the sauce with beef steak drippings to complete the sauce just before serving.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 79 kcal
Carbohydrate 1 g
Cholesterol 27 mg
Dietary Fiber 0 g
Protein 4 g
Saturated Fat 4 g
Sodium 415 mg
Sugars 0 g
Fat 6 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Teresa Ward
I have no idea what zip sauce is or what restaurant it’s from, but I think this version is delish!! Oh used fresh garlic instead of powdered, I just had too! Served over a NY strip and it was beautiful 🙂
Megan Navarro
oh my gosh!! nothing else to say … perfect compliment to a tenderloin or other steak … keeps in fridge forever (until you add the beef drippings)
Albert Bradford
ZipSauce.com has the ORIGINAL ZIPSAUCE!! Exact same Zip Sauce from Leilli’s in Detroit 🙂 Just add butter 🙂
Jamie Hansen
The only recipe I know of for Zip sauce is clarified butter, garlic powder (or finely chopped garlic) and Maggi Sauce. It is not overpowering – it only enhances the taste of the steak!!
Savannah Robinson
I’ve tried this recipe several times with no luck of it turning remotely similar to the famous zip sauces at the Detroit restuarants (Lelli’s, Andiamo, Rochester Chop House, Red Coat, etc). I do have a friend who worked at 2 of the restuarants that serve the zip sause and he WILL NOT give out the recipe but he will make it at home when entertaining. The closest thing I’ve come to is actually buying the pre packaged Zip Sauce at the local Grocer, you can find it at many of the small Detroit Grocer’s, mine Fresh Approach in Royal Oak. Although there are different versions of the recipe, one is gravy like and the other isn’t, I perfer mine the thicker, gravy like version, I will add Wondra flour mixed with water to the Zip Sauce I bought, and mix until desired consistency.
Ricky Wheeler
I tried this recipe today for the first time… it was a definite hit with all my guests…. served up some terrific stakes from the grill…makes great marinade as well.. yeaha
Craig Butler
My family enjoyed it but found it a bit over whelming. Great flavor but very strong
Sean Chen
This Recipe was very good but nothing like the original. I must say it was good.
Courtney Wilson
The sauce is pretty good, but not quite the real thing. I actually work at that little Italian restaurant, and love love love their zip sauce. This was close, but there was some sort of spice/taste that was too strong.
Donald Williams
Although tasty, this isn’t the closely guarded recipe for zip sauce. I managed an Italian restaurant that served it and have had zip sauce at other Detroit area stores and it never had all these herbs and spices. As I said, the zip sauce recipe is closely guarded, so I don’t have it, but it tastes more like a reduced beef broth, butter and soy sauce combination.
Justin Griffin
Amazing!
Wayne Powell
this sauce is fantastic
Joseph Scott
It’s a steak sauce, it’s a mult-purpose marinade. It’s a varnish stripper. It’s everything real men demand of an industrial steak sauce. Forget A-1. This is the real thing. Warning: zip sauce needs to be used only by real men and real women. If you’re in doubt about what side of the fence you’re on, you’re in for a rough ride with this sauce. This is not something you want to just pour on your polite little ribeye. It will refuse to be placed on anything less than a 1.25″ thick strip sirloin– butcher shop stuff– forget Kroger. Whatever you do, do not put a California freakin’ vegetable medley anywhere near this sauce. It’ll chase it off the plate, and then turn around and come after you. About the only thing it will tolerate on the same plate is a baked Idaho potato. A wine selection: screw the wine. This sauce demands Scotch, neat. Although I have heard of some folks doing this sauce with a stiff Manhattan. Make sure you do two good ones while the steak is grilling , and then gun down the third before your first bite. You’ll be channeling Hunter S. Thompson and Rodney Dangerfield before you wrestle the dog for the last scrap of fat. After you pick yourself off the floor, THEN you can talk about wine. Afterwards, sweep the dishes off the table and grab your partner by the hair and show her what real men and real women do. She’ll understand and be ready.
Cynthia Lozano
I love the restaurant that serves this zip sauce & have been trying to duplicate it for a while. This is the closest Ive come! Its missing something from the original but this is a very yummy version!
Norma Le
Really, really good. I put 1/2 tsp of salt instead of a full tsp. And I use olive oil + a little water instead of beef drippings – it’s very good like this too.
Alex Walker
So tasty.. Even my husband liked this, and he is a finicky eater..
Samuel Hughes
Wonderful taste,easy to make. My family really enjoyed this recipe.
Jonathan Shah
Nice flavor. I adapted the recipe a bit in order to make it into a gravy and I had to use beef bouillon granules because I didn’t have any drippings. Despite those changes it still turned out quite well!

 

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