cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/515275

I like making soups and porridges. I usually add salt and pepper at the beginning to add flavor. Recently, a friend gave me a bottle of soy sauce and Im experimenting with it.

What would it make more sense? to add the soy sauce with the other ingredients before the mix boils, while boiling or only to add it before serving?

Another question is: should I use salt if I use soy sauce? Apparently, this sauce has a lot of sodium.

  • @SpiceDealer
    1•9 months ago

    Most East Asian recipes that I have made include soy sauce as an ingredient in some form. That doesn’t mean that soy sauce is only for Asian dishes. I’ve made steak fajitas and steak phillys with soy sauce as well.

    • FuglyDuckEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      I use soy sauce as a sort of liquid seasoning. It adds a good amount of salt, when I need it in a marinade. though, mostly, I’ve moved to fish sauce, instead. Fish sauce (and thai food in general) has a lot of similar flavors to mexican food in general, to the point that the Abuela next door uses fish sauce in her cooking… for just about everything.

      (She’s a wonderful woman. And I’m not just saying that because she just came over and dropped off about three dozen tammales, or because we have a deal where I give her freshly-grown tomatoes and I get back some salsas and pico.) (though it doesn’t really hurt.)