Soy Sauce- A Traditional Ingredient for Various Indonesian Dishes

2022-04-27 15:26:23

Soy sauce is a tasty ingredient prepared from fermented soybeans or wheat. Nowadays, it is the best soy product across the world. It is one of the essential ingredients in different Asian countries and utilized extensively in many different areas of the World. Sweet soy sauce is a sweetened aromatic soy sauce  that has a dark color, a viscous syrupy, and a molasses-like taste because of the maximum usage of palm sugar. 

Soy Sauce Usage in different Indonesian Dishes

Sweet Soy Sauce is a fundamental sauce in Indonesian dishes. It is utilized to add an enjoyably gentle sweet and umami flavor in most well-known Indonesian dishes; including nasi goreng, mie goreng, kwetiau goreng, ayam kecap (chicken), babi kecap (pork), semur hamburger stew, and ketoprak. 

It is likewise a well-known marinade for barbecued dishes, for example, satay, ayam bakar (flame-broiled chicken), and ikan bakar (barbecued fish). Sweet soy sauce is additionally a famous plunging sauce, blended in with cleaved shallot and higher stew and filled in as plunging sauce to go with tahu goreng (singed tofu).

Steamed rice finished off with radiant side singed egg and showered with sweet soy sauce is a basic yet famous dinner among Indonesian youngsters. In Eastern Indonesia, sweet soy sauce is utilized as the element of colo-colo plunging sauce, albeit customarily this Maluku sauce utilizes dark hued delivered coconut oil buildup.

Recipe of Kecap Manis (Indonesian Sweet Soy Sauce) with Desly Light Soy Sauce

You also can make your own recipe for kacap manis,the most popular condiment in Indonesi.Kecap Manis does wonders for rice and noodle dishes and is equally fantastic added to stir-fries or used in marinades, glazes, soups, and barbecue sauces or used as a dipping sauce!  

Ingredients

ü 1 cup DESLY light soy sauce

ü 1 1/2 cup coconut sugar or brown sugar

ü 1 tbs molasses

ü Half teaspoon fresh ginger, peeled and quartered

ü 3 whole star anise

ü 3 whole cloves

ü 4 cloves garlic, peeled and halved

Direction

· Take a small saucepan and add all ingredients to it and start boiling.   

· Minimize the heat to medium or low and simmer uncovered, stirring constantly, until the sugar’s content is dissolved and the sauce starts to thicken, 12-14 minutes.  

· (Note:  The soya sauce will continue to thicken because it cools thus be ready and avoid over-cooking it.  However, you can have a view of its thickness by keeping the sauce in the freezer a couple of times and then adding a little amount of sauce onto it to observe how thick it is when the sauce starts cooling.)

· After turning off the burner, cover and let cool all the spices, garlic, or ginger content still in it thus they can give their flavors.

· After cooling, separate the pieces and discard them, pour the soy sauce into a jar that is covered or airtight, and store in the fridge.  

· You can store it for weeks and use it whenever you want!