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.
Remember, when we were kids, we loved baked potatoes. And fried sausages on the fire. Teenagers love hot dogs and hamburgers these days. And if we try to create them based on our childhood? The taste of this snack will take you back to your childhood.
My child, a big fan of hot dogs and pizza, asked me to cook something from this area for the New Year’s table. I decided to make a hot dog pie with pickles, cherries and sausages. The child ate and said that it tasted like a hot dog and pizza combined, and ate the most in one sitting.
A hot dog with potatoes is an ideal snack that is easy to cook in nature. You can also cook it at home, in the kitchen. These hot dogs are low in calories, so you don’t have to worry about the figure. Take everything you need with you and have a quick rest in nature.
While vacationing in the Dominican Republic, I tried the simplest salad of green cucumber with cilantro and olive oil. It was served hot on freshly baked white bread. I was amazed at how simple and delicious it is. Vegetables and greens are soaked in the aromas of hot baking and warmed up a little, and baking absorbs the flavors of salad. So I decided to combine this salad with a hot vegetable pie. It turned out very tasty.
I want to offer you an amazing hot dog. In a rye bun I put a spicy sausage with smoke, almost a kebab, hot sauce with mustard and a fresh salad. It’s very satisfying and delicious. By cooking these hot dogs in nature, you will diversify your BARBECUE menu and easily feed a large company. Turn on a little imagination, and there can be many variations.
The other day I got my hands on a booklet from a local grocery store to order. Looking at the photos, my gaze lingered on an unusual pizza, namely, I was attracted by the original side. As usual, there was a crazy idea to cook the most delicious pizza. I Googled, it turned out that there are no recipes, only photos on the menu from different establishments. I went to experiment in the kitchen, and what came out of it, go look at the recipe.
Try my version of sweet potato pie. Simple and delicious. Suitable for both weekdays and holidays. Do this often if there is a reason to get together and celebrate an event in nature.
A wonderful and very delicious pie with a delicate filling of chicken liver. I’ve always cooked this minced meat pie, now I’ve tried it with liver, it’s very, very tasty.
This dish, although similar in shape to a pie, is not a pie in the usual sense of the word. It is not cooked in the oven, but in the refrigerator, does not contain eggs or flour. In addition to the intriguing appearance and excellent taste, the pie contains a lot of useful substances and a negligible amount of fat, so you can afford a solid portion of it for dinner, even limiting yourself in the diet!