Recipe: Reduced Sugar Terryaki Sauce

I don't know about you guys, but one thing I loved preop was terryaki... I've not really tried much of anything like that since surgery due to worries of dumping from a sweet sauce. A friend shared a homemade terryaki sauce recipe and I modified it a bit to keep the sweet, but use less real sugar. Here's what I tried:


REDUCED SUGAR TERRYAKI SAUCE
INGREDIENTS:
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 cup water
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp garlic powder
2 1/2 tbsp packed brown sugar
2 1/2 tbsp Splenda granulated
2 tbsp honey or molasses
2 tbsp corn starch
1/4 cup water

DIRECTIONS:
Mix first 7 ingredients in a small saucepan. Heat on low to medium heat. Mix the corn starch and 1/4 cup water together till corn starch is all dissolved. Add to saucepan mixture and stir well. Simmer, stirring often, till sauce reaches the thickness you want.

Note: To use this sauce as a marinade, add 1/4 cup more water. Also, if you like your sauce a bit less sweet, you can cut back on the honey/molasses amount to about 1 tbsp.

I've got this in the crockpot now with some beef, onions, and minced garlic... We'll see how it turns out!