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I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home.
Masaharu Morimoto

Meaning of "soy sauce" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOY SAUCE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOY SAUCE

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Soy sauce is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SOY SAUCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

soy sauce

Soy sauce

Soy sauce is a condiment made from a fermented paste of boiled soybeans, roasted grain, brine, and Aspergillus oryzae or Aspergillus sojae molds. After fermentation, the paste is pressed, producing a liquid, which is the soy sauce, and a solid byproduct, which is often used as animal feed. Soy sauce is a traditional ingredient in East and Southeast Asian cuisines, where it is used in cooking and as a condiment. It originated in China in the 2nd century BCE and spread throughout Asia. Today, it is used in Western cuisine and prepared foods. Soy sauce has a distinct yet basic taste of umami, due to naturally occurring free glutamates. Most varieties of soy sauce are salty, earthy, brownish liquids intended to season food while cooking or at the table. Many kinds of soy sauce are made in China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Burma and other countries. Variation is usually achieved as the result of different methods and durations of fermentation, different ratios of water, salt, and fermented soy, or through the addition of other ingredients.

Definition of soy sauce in the English dictionary

The definition of soy sauce in the dictionary is a salty dark brown sauce made from fermented soya beans, used esp in Japanese and Chinese cookery Also called: soya sauce.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOY SAUCE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SOY SAUCE

apple sauce
barbecue sauce
brown sauce
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chilli sauce
cranberry sauce
cream sauce
Glauce
hollandaise sauce
horseradish sauce
mint sauce
parsley sauce
satay sauce
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shrimp sauce
tartar sauce
tartare sauce
tomato sauce
white sauce
Worcester sauce
Worcestershire sauce

Synonyms and antonyms of soy sauce in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «soy sauce» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOY SAUCE

Find out the translation of soy sauce to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of soy sauce from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «soy sauce» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

酱油
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

salsa de soja
570 millions of speakers

English

soy sauce
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सोया सॉस
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صَلْصَةُ صُويَا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

соевый соус
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

molho de soja
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সয়া সস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sauce soja
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

sos soya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sojasoße
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

醤油
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

간장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Soy sauce
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tương
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சோயா சாஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सोया सॉस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

soya sosu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

salsa di soia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sos sojowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

соєвий соус
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sos de soia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σάλτσα σόγιας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sojasous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sojasås
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

soyasaus
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOY SAUCE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about soy sauce

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4 QUOTES WITH «SOY SAUCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word soy sauce.
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Rick Moranis
I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view.
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Masaharu Morimoto
I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home.
3
Jose Andres Puerta
Soy sauce and seaweed go really well with potato chips.
4
Martin Yan
If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOY SAUCE»

Discover the use of soy sauce in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to soy sauce and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Handbook of Food and Beverage Fermentation Technology
Taiwan I. INTRODUCTION It is generally accepted that the Chinese invented soy sauce. Over the years, overseas Chinese introduced soy sauce to the different parts of the world. Later, the Kikkoman Company of Japan promoted soy sauce in  ...
Y. H. Hui, Lisbeth Meunier-Goddik, Jytte Josephsen, 2004
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Proceedings of the World Congress on Vegetable Protein ...
Annually, about 200,000 tons of each of these ingredients are used for the production of 1.2 million kl of soy sauce in Japan. However, soy sauce, especially fermented soy sauce, is not a simple hydrolysate but a complexly brewed product  ...
Thomas H. Applewhite, 1989
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Advances in Applied Microbiology
The enzymes from the mold break down the constituents (proteins, starch, and cellulose) in the legume and grain, and subsequent bacterial and yeast growth produce the characteristic flavor of the soy sauce. Beer production depends on ...
‎1997
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Soy Sauce for Beginners
Ba added, “This isn't real soy sauce. The color and flavor come from chemical.” My mother's voice flashed in my head, her American accent honed over years spent studying in Ithaca, New York. “Chemicals, Xiong,” she corrected. “ Chemicals ...
Kirstin Chen, 2014
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Mutagens in Food
soy sauce treated with nitrite in the range 1,000 to 10,000 ppm was mutagenic in direct relation to nitrite concentration. However, soy sauce was not mutagenic in the test when it was treated with 100, 500, or 1000 ppm nitrite.26 There is a ...
Hikoya Hayatsu, 1990
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Industrialization of Indigenous Fermented Foods, Revised and ...
Types of Soy Sauce Generally, soy sauce is divided into two categories: fermented soy sauce and chemical soy sauce. In Japan, however, 100% chemical soy sauce is not recognized as soy sauce by the Japanese government . Chemical soy ...
Keith Steinkraus, 2004
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Applications of Biotechnology to Traditional Fermented ...
16 Continuous Production of Soy Sauce in a Bioreactor Takashi Hamada, Yaichi Fukushima, and Hiroshi Motai Soy sauce is a traditional all-purpose seasoning with a salty taste and sharp flavor. In the conventional method of brewing soy ...
‎1992
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Asian Foods: Science and Technology
After heating, the soy sauce is clarified by either sedimentation or filtration. Kaolin , diatomite, or alum may be added to enhance clarification before filtration. The clear supernatant is packed immediately into cans or bottles. In some cases ...
Catharina Y.W. Ang, Keshun Liu, Yao-Wen Huang, 1999
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Handbook of Fermented Functional Foods, Second Edition
manufacturing white soy sauce, based on the enzyme system produced by each during fermentation.48 16.3.1.2.4 Health Effects In addition to its taste and aroma, soy sauce is now considered a functional seasoning because it has been ...
Edward R.(Ted) Farnworth, 2008
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Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art
Soy sauce is made from soybeans, wheat, and salt. A mixture of carefully selected and roasted beans and wheat is inoculated with an Aspergillus mold. The resulting culture, which takes 3 days to grow, is called koji. The koji is then mixed with ...
Shizuo Tsuji, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOY SAUCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term soy sauce is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why You Should Hard-Cook Lots of Eggs and Soak Them in Soy
After peeling the eggs, you move them to marinate in the fridge in a small vat of soy sauce, sherry vinegar, and sugar for a few hours. (I've left them overnight too, ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
2
'Test Kitchen': How To Make Vegetarian Dishes Pop With A Little …
"It doesn't read as soy sauce in the final dish. But again, it's adding more depth than if you were to just add an equivalent amount of salt. ... If you add soy sauce, ... «NPR, Mar 15»
3
Centuries-old soy sauce makes 'miracle' comeback in tsunami …
The traditional soy-sauce maker, destroyed by the giant tsunami four years ago, has made a comeback, defying tsunami-scale odds. The secret lies in a little ... «Fox News, Mar 15»
4
Dress up spring asparagus with butter sauce
It pairs nutty browned butter with toasted pecans, which add a perfect richness and texture to the asparagus. A final small trick — using soy sauce instead of salt ... «The Courier-Journal, Mar 15»
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A Look At Kenji Ekuan's Design For Kikkoman Soy Sauce
So perhaps Kenji Ekuan, the late designer of this Kikkoman icon, achieved the perfect marriage of elegance and utility with this soy sauce bottle. The design has ... «Strategist Magazine, Feb 15»
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From Soy Sauce To Bullet Trains: Famed Japanese Designer Dies …
As with many elite industrial designers, you know his work even if you don't know his name. Decades after Kenji Ekuan created Kikkoman's iconic soy sauce ... «NPR, Feb 15»
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I poured soy sauce all over my hydrophobic white shirt (hands-on)
I set about designing a torture test for the shirt and came up with this arsenal: water, tea, coffee, red wine and soy sauce. Taking the shirt outside on a cold day, ... «CNET, Dec 14»
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Courtesy of Oliver Wang
The key, Gary says, is to use two different types of soy sauce — light and dark. ... different soy sauces to help balance color and flavor (see the note at bottom). «NPR, Sep 14»
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Media Cooks Up Claim That Soy Sauce Treats, Even Cures HIV
But don't go downing bottles of the brine just yet, because there's a small problem: The HIV-fighting molecule in question is not actually known to be in soy sauce ... «AIDSmeds.com HIV/AIDS Treatment News, May 14»
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Soy Sauce Ingredient Found to Fight HIV
A compound found in soy sauce may be more potent than the current top antiviral therapy in fighting HIV, University of Missouri researchers have found. Seventy ... «LA Weekly, May 14»

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