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.
Delicious and easy to prepare chicken wings. For garnish, you can use vegetable salad or grilled vegetables. This reduces the calorie content of the dish.
I met this wonderful dish at breakfast in China. This dish is suitable for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Ingredients can be any: pickled daikon, cabbage, garlic, onion, celery, fish or meat meatballs, squid, various sprouts, mushrooms, etc.
A simple, delicious recipe for fish baked in the oven. The recipe is suitable for cooking almost any red fish. I usually cook ketu and pink salmon like this, both options are good))
For all its simplicity, this dish can perfectly decorate a festive table, and emotions and impressions will go off scale. The recipe is very simple, the main thing is a good marinade, and the oven will do the rest for you.
Fillet cooked according to this recipe turns out to be incredibly tender, very juicy and fragrant. If you do not take into account the pickling time, then this dish is prepared quite quickly. Very tasty, try it!
Thai soup with an exotic taste will help diversify your diet. This is a classic recipe for Tom Kha coconut soup with chicken. Like all dishes of the Kingdom of Thailand, the soup contains a palette of all tastes. what you can imagine: salty, sweet, creamy, spicy, sour, spicy. It is not recommended to replace the soup components with more affordable options. The exception applies only to tree mushrooms, they can be replaced with oyster mushrooms.
My family loves chicken. Cook today in an oriental way in a sweet glaze with a crispy crust. Roasted sesame seeds give a nutty aftertaste. For convenience, serve in the form of sticks. The kids really like it.
Chicken is very suitable for mushroom fricassee, which, in my case, is prepared separately from mushrooms, but served together. Which gives both dishes sophistication, unique taste and aroma. You can take both the whole chicken and its individual parts. Cooking chicken is not difficult at all, the chicken is cooked quickly, not counting pickling, which can be done in advance. Chicken cooked in such a marinade of starch and rice flour will turn out to be very soft, juicy and tender, unlike an ordinary casserole.