Budget-Friendly A little soy sauce Recipes – Save Money, Eat Well

Cooking with A little soy sauce doesn’t have to be expensive. Try these cheap, tasty, and filling recipes.

Recipes with A little soy sauce

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Cabbage and Minced Pork Casserole

The soup made from cabbage and minced meat is sweet and fresh, the cabbage is soft, and the minced meat is tender and juicy. It is a home-cooked dish that goes well with rice.

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Scrambled eggs with green pepper and lean meat

Wash and cut green pepper into strips, cut ham into strips, beat eggs and stir-fry until they are chunky and serve. Heat oil and sauté minced garlic, add green pepper and stir-fry until half soft, add ham and stir-fry until fragrant, pour in eggs, add salt and a little light soy sauce to season, stir-fry quickly and evenly. The color is bright, the green pepper is slightly spicy, the ham is salty and fragrant, and the eggs are tender and smooth. It goes well with rice and is quick and easy to make.

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Cantonese style blanched lettuce

Cantonese style blanched lettuce is very popular because it is simple to make but can highlight the delicious taste. The "blanching" method uses boiling water or soup to quickly cook the lettuce, which retains its fresh taste and sweet juice to the greatest extent. The key is seasoning. Soy sauce, oyster sauce and a little sugar are added to bring out the freshness, and then hot oil is poured to enhance the aroma. The salty and fresh sauce blends with the sweetness of the lettuce, with rich layers without being heavy. It has a refreshing taste, can balance greasy dishes, and let people taste the original flavor of vegetables.

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Beef brisket with turnips

1. Cut the beef brisket into pieces, simmer over high heat, add sliced ginger, add the beef brisket, and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Drain and rinse for later use. 2. Peel and cut the radish into pieces. Set aside. 3. Heat oil in a pan, saute sliced ginger, spring onions, garlic, star anise, bay leaves, add minced beef, saute until fragrant. 4. Add white radish, oyster sauce, a little sugar and soy sauce, stir well, add enough water and simmer. 5. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes, until the sauce reduces. Turn off heat and bake for 15 minutes. Then, simmer again over low heat for 20 minutes, turn off heat, and simmer for another 15 minutes.

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Chicken rice

This "Chicken Thigh Rice" marinates boneless chicken thighs with scallion, ginger, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar and a little oil, then puts them into a pot with washed rice, adds water to cover the rice, and cooks them in one click. The rice absorbs the sauce and chicken aroma, and each grain has a warm, salty and sweet taste. The chicken is tender and juicy; the fragrance of scallion and ginger is looming in the heat, adding layers. The whole thing is done in one pot, saving time and effort, and full of homely flavor, but you need to reserve about half an hour for marinating, and the ratio of water and marinade must be properly controlled to avoid the rice being too wet or the chicken being too salty/slightly dry.

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Braised young pigeon in soy sauce

Young pigeon in soy sauce is a typical Asian dish that combines the tenderness of young pigeon meat with the rich flavors of soy sauce and aromatic spices. The cooking process begins by boiling the pigeon with ginger to remove the fishy smell, then stir-frying it with garlic and ginger until fragrant. Next, the pigeon is cooked with soy sauce and a little salt, boiled over high heat for 10 minutes, then continued over low heat for 30 minutes until the spices are perfectly absorbed. The result is tender meat with a distinctive savory and sweet taste, perfect served with warm rice.

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Long beans and scrambled eggs

Wash and cut fresh long beans into sections, stir-fry until they turn emerald green, with a crisp and tender taste and its own fragrance; stir-fry the beaten eggs into golden and fluffy egg cubes, exuding a rich egg aroma. After the two are mixed, the freshness of the long beans neutralizes the mellowness of the eggs, and then add a little salt and a little light soy sauce for seasoning. Simple seasoning can stimulate the most authentic taste of the ingredients.