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.
Juicy marinated veal with eggplant, tomatoes and onions, baked under a cheese-mustard crust. The cheese crust will retain the juice, the veal will be tender and softened.
Very simple, very tasty and very fragrant! Vegetables that almost every housewife has in the house, seasoned with honey-mustard filling with garlic and herbs, baked in the oven!
Tender and juicy chicken in a spicy and thick cheese sauce with crunchy cheese and bread crust. Perfect for a festive table, it looks great on the table. The guests will be delighted.
A classic combination of shrimp, avocado and tomatoes in a new form. On the warm potato gratin, the salad sparkled with new colors, and the rich sauce perfectly complements the dish and gives piquancy.
Fruit dessert is served hot. I took French orange gratin as a basis, adding notes of soy sauce and slices of papaya (melon) to the recipe. Here soy sauce goes well with sweet fruity and creamy tones. Bright juicy dessert will brighten up the autumn cloudy days.
This dish is always prepared in our Chinese restaurant. It is prepared in two versions – vegetarian or with meat. Spicy and crispy vegetables in tandem with baked meat, very tasty and nutritious.
A simple snack / side dish or an independent dish with juicy sweet cherry tomatoes that burst on the tongue, sprinkled with fragrant hot juice and delight the taste buds. A quick hot dish for tomato lovers and those who do not like to mess around in the kitchen for a long time.
Basically, for the festive table on the side dish – potatoes of their own preparation. I suggest breaking this tradition and using polenta instead of potatoes. The dish turns out to be hearty, beautiful and very, very tasty. And it will not require much effort from you!