Thanks to its excellent taste and amazing versatility, soy sauce is now popular all over the world. It is used everywhere – from marinating meat to cooking unusual Asian desserts. This is a great base for salad dressings – especially when combined with lemon juice, mustard, aromatic spices and fresh herbs. You can marinate meat or chicken in it so that they are juicier, more tender and tastier. Dishes with soy sauce are baked with a beautiful golden crust. You can even make a crispy glaze from it, just by adding a little honey.
How to Use Soy Sauce?
Soy sauce is added to noodles, stewed vegetables, soups and wherever salt is needed. It is a natural flavor enhancer that has no analogues. Dark types are more saturated and concentrated, so they also give an expressive shade. Soy sauce is served with rice, rolls and sushi. Japanese, Chinese and Korean cuisine consists almost entirely of dishes with soy sauce. Other popular additives are also prepared on its basis – for example, unagi or teriyaki!
Types of Soy Sauce
There are two types of soy sauce — light and dark, which differ in the fermentation period. Dark sauce has a longer exposure, it is sharper, thicker and sharper, so it is used for marinating meat and served with sushi. Salads are seasoned with a saltier light sauce, light and pleasant to the taste, meat and fish dishes, seafood, rice, pasta and vegetable stews are watered.
It’s hard to say which soy sauce is the most delicious, because everyone has their own preferences, the most important thing is to choose a high—quality and healthy sauce. It is enough to remember a few rules — a good soy sauce is sold only in transparent glass bottles, and the product should contain the following ingredients: soybeans, wheat, salt, sugar and vinegar.
Real soy sauce is brown and at the same time transparent, there is no sediment in it, and the protein content is about 6-8%.
So imperceptibly, the exotic sauce has become one of the favorite condiments around the world, and its low calorie content has turned it into a popular dietary salad dressing instead of butter, sour cream and mayonnaise.
Spring salad with jam sauce.In the spring, try to cook salads with lots of fresh herbs and various fillings made up of it for a variety of tastes. One of the last interesting experiments was the sauce of blackcurrant jam. The salad with it turned out very tasty.
I present to you a very simple and very quick to prepare salad. Cook for only 5-8 minutes, but it will please you and your family with its juiciness and pleasant taste. I cooked it for a family dinner, and we liked it so much that the next day I decided to treat myself to this salad for breakfast and at the same time share it with you.
Chicken legs marinated in mustard-soy marinade and baked with assorted vegetables, basil and rosemary. Having prepared this dish, the perfect dinner is provided for you.
Tender, creamy, spicy cream soup. The difference between the soup-puree in a velvety consistency, a ready-made dish with a creamy taste. I indicated in the description that cream soup can be served as an aperitif, offering it to guests in a chilled form. My cream is shrimp soup, but you can cook with any seafood or chicken.
Eggplant season begins, they are always easy to prepare and always very tasty. This snack can be used as an independent dish, or as a side dish, you can take a barbecue picnic with you and even serve a salad on the festive table that your guests will like.
