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.
Another quick, but quite bright and spectacular dish for the festive table. An interesting alternative to traditional canapes with caviar or stuffed eggs.
The simplest recipe with amazing results! My husband doesn’t like eggplants, he doesn’t like eggplants. But when he tasted gratin and said it was delicious, I thought maybe he was just very hungry. And the next day I saw my faithful devouring the remains of this dish in cold form. And I realized that this recipe has stuck with us for a long time! Try it, lovers and non-lovers of eggplant!
The salad recipe came together spontaneously, I love all the products in it separately, putting them together, they only complement each other! Dried tomatoes with soy sauce give a piquant taste, and dill gives a touch of freshness, the rest of the ingredients are responsible for satiety!
After listening to delicious stories about overseas treats on foreign trips, such a salad was born. Very tasty, spring-like, bright! Union of Europe and Asia. For the speed of cooking, even more intense taste and aroma, I discovered a mixture of bulgur with mushrooms and spices.
The salad consists of two main ingredients, you can always find these products in the refrigerator! This salad of red beans with carrots and onions is very simple, but it turns out to be insanely tasty, satisfying and piquant.
A very unusual salad with a sweet note. Very useful and easy to prepare. It is very tasty and quickly prepared. Serve it as an independent dish or with a side dish – buckwheat porridge, rice.
Pork in mustard-honey sauce is a great option for a family dinner. This dish is prepared from ordinary products, and the result is a real delicacy. Sweet and spicy sauce gives pork tenderness and juiciness. It goes well with any side dish, whether it’s potatoes, beans, cereals, pasta or fresh vegetables and herbs. Cooking pork is quite simple, but the result will be great and your family will certainly like it.
Chocolate cake with cocoa – you will say, looking at the photo. And you will be right, but only half right. Because there are 2 more important ingredients – beetroot, which gives this brownie moisture and an amazing reddish hue, and sweet soy sauce, which is responsible for a pleasant aftertaste.
