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.
This vegetable dish can be used as a separate dish and as a side dish. Very satisfying, delicious and flavorful. Perfect for fasting and vegetarian food.
This recipe for chicken in a hot and sweet sauce was brought by me from Qingdao. A quick recipe without difficulties, just like it is prepared at home in ordinary Chinese cuisine. It is especially nice that the meat in the marinade can be prepared in advance and then cooking will take a few minutes.
Festive, but fast and easy to prepare fish (when there is no extra time to stand at the stove). I really liked the combination of fish and tangerine to taste, and looks good on the festive table.
This recipe, quite simple, but quite interesting, I dedicate to my beloved husband-a great lover of delicious meat and tomatoes. I suggest you try this dish and please your loved ones!
Chicken breast itself often turns out to be dry, but according to this recipe it is always juicy, spicy and very flavorful. We tried this chicken in Phuket, where we rested with the whole family and even celebrated a wedding with my husband according to local customs.
