Cooking Made Simple With Special Sauces
Friday, November 12, 2010

One of the special skill set you must acquired is mastering the use of sauces. Yes, you are right, sauces are the most important ingredients in any cuisines. Sauces help in adding extra flavors, bring out the original taste of the foods, add on more natural coloring, add on fragrant smell to the dish and sometimes it also helps in softening and smoothing meats, soups, noodles, rice, and others.

Here are the top 6 type of usage of sauces:
1. Seasoning
2. Condiment
3. Dipping
4. Soup based
5. Water based marination

The raw material of sauces are around spices, herbs, fermented soy bean sauce, chili powders, meat stocks, pepper powders, vinegar, chili oil, garlic mince, onion mince, lemon grass mince, fruit juices, yogurt, cheese, mayonnaise, milk, wine, draft beer, rice wine, flour, and a lot more to listed down here.

There are multiple common sauces family show here for your reference:

1. Chinese. It is the most complicated and yet the most interesting sauces around in the world that has more then few thousands of sauce recipes to go along all the Chinese cuisines. A lot of Chinese foods in western countries are no longer genuine with the traditional and secret sauces used back in China.

2. Japanese. It has heavy use with miso paste and rice wine in the sauce preparation. Emphasis a lot in using natural raw materials and fermented soy in sauce making. Japanese sake is also the most authentic symbol of Japanese sauce.

3. Western. It has a lot to do with either Italian, American, Mexican or English sauces. Since they are much different from each other, but they all do have some comment use of cheese, mayonnaise, yogurt, fruits, butter, milk, olive oil, garden spices and vinegar in the sauce making.

4. South East Asian. This region of cuisines use a lot of spices, chili, pepper in the sauce making. An authentic flour is the use of coconut milk in the curries, strong pepper and curry powders in dry or wet dishes. Spicy and heavy fragrant sauce is the unique dressing in this region.

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Posted byJessica at 12:50 AM  

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