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.
I want to offer you to try spicy string beans in soy sauce, which can be a side dish, as well as an independent dish. The amount of hot pepper can be adjusted to your taste.
I suggest you prepare an incredibly delicious salad of liver, caramelized apple, with an amazing soy-currant sauce. Cooking is not long and without much hassle, but I guarantee delight and satisfaction with the taste. For lovers of the liver and everything incongruous at first glance.
Try a simple, healthy, bright, delicious and quick to prepare warm salad of vegetables with beans. The salad is hearty, while dietary. You can use it both in a warm form and in a cold one.
Very tasty warm salad. And when there is a great abundance of vegetables in the summer, and even from your own garden, you want to cook, cook and cook such a salad.
Juicy vegetable salad with chickpeas is both healthy, and satisfying, and delicious! Legumes just need to be included in your diet, so I suggest that you supplement your menu with such a salad in the post and not only!
I have no words to describe the taste and simplicity of cooking this dish. You can call it an appetizer, side dish, or main course. Suitable for fasting and not only. Beautifully decorated, you can serve it on a festive table.