This oriental dressing can be prepared at home, but you can also try to recreate its texture and color with other ingredients
There soy sauce is obtained from soy, wheat, water and salt fermentation and is used to flavor many dishes, especially in oriental cuisine.
It may happen not to find it in the supermarket, especially in this period, but the good news is that we can try prepare it at home or replace it with other ingredients.
Homemade soy sauce
Ingredients
450 g of cooked soy beans
350 g of wheat flour
200 g of salt
3.7 l water
Method
First, whisk the cooked soy beans.
Then add the flour and mix everything.
Give the dough an elongated shape and then cut it into slices until you get many discs about half a centimeter thick.
Stack the discs alternating them with moistened napkins and then wrap everything with plastic wrap.
Leave to rest in the pantry in the dark for a week.
After 7 days, place the discs on a baking tray and let them dry until they change color and turn brown.
At this point put them in a pot with water and salt and cover everything with plastic wrap.
Stir the mixture once a day until all the disks have melted.
After a few days, strain with a thin gauze and bottle your soy sauce.
Quick recipes of homemade soy sauce
There's a faster method, are you wondering? Yes here it is!
Ingredients
110 g dried soy beans
15 g wheat flour
65 ml mushroom broth
50 g butter
salt
Method
Cook the soy beans in boiling water until they soften.
Drain and blend them finely adding gradually broth, flour, butter and salt.
Cook the sauce until it boils and then let it cool and use it to flavor your recipes.
How to replace soy sauce
If you don't have time to make soy sauce at home or need it with some urgency, try to replace it with something else.
Here are some suggestions.
The ingredients and mixes we offer you they recall the color, the consistency, but not exactly the taste of soy sauce, but you can use them in all the recipes where it is mentioned among the ingredients, therefore in the almond chicken, in Cantonese rice and in all meat and fish stews to be skipped in wok with vegetables and sprouts.
You can also try replacing soy sauce with other ingredients in hot soups like ramen, although in this case it is better to use more seaweed and mushrooms to give flavor, rather than other different sauces.
Honey and lemon
This combination is certainly less savory than soy sauce, but for example it is an excellent alternative for glazing and flavoring and Oriental meat or fish morsels.
As for the variety of honey you can really play with the one you prefer even if we recommend a strong honey like chestnut if you want to recreate a hint of soy sauce.
Balsamic vinegar
Therebalsamic class it does not have exactly the same taste as soy sauce, but we are very close in color and texture.
You can try it on Cantonese rice, maybe mixed with a little honey if you want a bittersweet effect or with a beef broth if you want a savory aftertaste.
Vinegar and brown sugar
As already mentioned, vinegar and sugar or honey they go very well together.
If you don't like the strong taste of balsamic vinegar, use someWhite wine vinegar in combination with one brown cane sugar which has a stronger flavor.
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