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Question by Alice: What is the function of soy sauce?
What does it actually do in a recipe such as sweet and sour sauce?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Answer by Gina
It’s quite salty and has quite a plain taste. If you use soy sauce, make sure you have other types of sauces or flavours in your recipe.
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Soya sauce; use to flavour and colour in Oriental Cuisine.
Soya sauce, used extensively in Far Eastern cooking and made from fermented soya beans, is an extremely concentrated source of sodium – it contains almost six times as much sodium as brown sauce. It also contains wheat and should therefore be avoided by anyone with gluten or wheat intolerance.
Japanese and Chinese sauce often contain mono sodium glutamate (MSG), which was thought to cause headaches in susceptible people.
Researchers are currently examining the possible role of soya beans and related products such as tofu and soya bean paste in protecting against breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and menopausal symptoms.
Black and yellow bean sauce are also frequently used in Chinese cooking. Both are made from soya beans, either salted or fermented, and are high in salt.
Bottled bean sauce may be thickened with wheat flour.
Hosin sauce is a salty-sweet condiment made from soya beans and red rice (tinted by red beans).
It is used to flavour Peking for example, duck, which is traditionally accompanied by a sauce made from tart, pickled plums and sugar. (sweet and sour).
The Malaysian and Indonesian dish Satay, which consists of meat kebabs, is usually served with a spicy peanut sauce.
All oriental sauce that are high in sodium should be avoided by people on a low-salt diet.
Sweet and sour sauce recipe, include sugar, for sweet taste, whilst the sour is achieved by adding vinegar and in the more authentic recipe rice vinegar.
Other ingredients include soya sauce, ketchup/tomato puree for the bright colour and cornstarch mix with water to give the sauce a thicker texture.
It has the flavor known as umami.