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.
Very tasty and beautiful eggplant salad. The salad is prepared simply and quickly, and consists of 2 main ingredients: eggplant and tomato. The dressing in this salad with the lemon flavor, because the mayonnaise with the lemon juice. This salad is served to the table immediately after cooking in a warm form.
If you have nothing against semi-smoked sausage, then I suggest you prepare this fresh, flavorful salad, which can become a full-fledged dinner and even decorate the festive table.
Sometimes you don’t want to bother with cooking, from the word at all. But, our condition and reluctance few people care, they need to be fed more than once a day. At such times, I prepare very light, time-consuming dishes, such as chicken drumsticks with rice. The main thing is to cook with inspiration.
Delicious and flavorful chicken with juicy vegetables, cooked quickly. Recipe from the Chinese woman Apang, for which she is very grateful. The taste of the dish is no different from those served in Chinese restaurants.
I suggest you prepare a juicy chicken fillet with filling, baked in foil! This portioned dish is prepared from the most common products, but it is suitable for both everyday lunch and a festive table! The taste is very delicate, pleasant, with the aroma of herbs and spices, and the dish is very tender and juicy.