Teriyaki

Description of teriyaki

Teriyaki sauce – classical sweet sauce of ethnic Japanese cuisine. The main ingredients which are a part of teriyaki are soy sauce, rice wine a gelding and sugar.

Interesting is the fact that uniform list of teriyaki, as well as the recipe of its preparation, does not exist. In Japan it is considered that teriyaki – is more, than just sauce. It is the whole philosophy of cooking and, as a rule, each Japanese family cooks teriyaki in own way.

Besides, teriyaki has several values:

• Traditional way of preparation in Japan (namely – roastings) meat and fish dishes with use of sweet sauce;
• The dishes prepared with sweet teriyaki sauce.

The word comes from "tera" that means gloss, and "yaks" – fried. Gloss to dishes is added by sugar which in the course of roasting caramelizes. Around the world teriyaki sauce won recognition and huge popularity thanks to the aroma, distinctive taste and universality as it is combined with fish, meat and vegetable dishes.

For preparation of teriyaki dishes are traditionally used:

• In Japan – fish (a herring, a marlin, an aku, a salmon, a trout, a mackerel) and seafood;
• In the western countries – meat (chicken, pork, mutton, beef) and vegetables.

In the western countries, unlike Japan, also add to sauce:

• Sesame, ginger, garlic and other spices;
• Juice from tinned pineapples as it not only provides necessary sweet to sauce, but also helps to soften meat.

In some networks of a fast food sauce is used for preparation of hamburgers – teriyaki sauce is filled in in bread then give with salad.

List of teriyaki

Are a part of teriyaki:

• Mono - and disaccharides;
• Ashes;
• Water;
• B1, PP, B2, B6, B5, B4 vitamins;
• Mineral substances – phosphorus, calcium, sodium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, copper.

Advantage of teriyaki sauce

In Japan where sauce is used traditionally, teriyaki is considered extraordinary useful to health. Treat its main properties:

• Digestion improvement, increase in development of a gastric juice and increase in appetite;
• Normalization of pressure;
• Favorable impact on a nervous system that promotes decrease in level of a stress and tension.

Besides, antioxidant activity of the main ingredient – soy sauce, revealed by scientists of National university of Singapore, surpasses red wine and orange juice. So in the Asian countries consider that teriyaki sauce effectively fights against an organism senilism, and also to a certain extent prevents development of oncological diseases. According to some information teriyaki sauce well influences mental capacities and interferes with developing of such neurodegenerative pathologies as Parkinson's disease.

How to make teriyaki sauce

Are necessary for preparation of teriyaki sauce:

• 100 ml of soy sauce;
• 100 ml to Saca;
• 100 ml of a gelding (sweet rice wine which can be replaced with sugar syrup);
• 1 tablespoon of brown sugar (if necessary the crude sugar can be replaced white, but in this case it it will be required slightly less).

All ingredients should be mixed in a small pan and to bring to boiling on moderate fire, stirring slowly before full dissolution of sugar. Sauce is cooked until he does not sweat twice and will not get a ropish consistence of syrup.

The made sauce can be used right after the end of preparation, or, a modulation in glasswares, to store in the refrigerator.

How to prepare dishes with teriyaki sauce

For preparation of dishes with sauce, fish or meat fry in vegetable oil before formation of a crust on strong fire. After that teriyaki sauce is poured out in a frying pan and boil out a little more. Add fried meat or fish to hot sauce and overturn pieces so that they became covered by sauce as glaze.

Also with teriyaki it is possible to cook seafood and vegetables for what they are pickled in sauce, and then fry on lattices and give together with sauce.

Contraindications

Abuse of teriyaki sauce can provoke development of an urolithiasis (stones in kidneys) and hypertensions because of high content of sodium in this product. Besides, at preparation of sauce it is necessary to choose qualitative soy sauce as its substitutes made with disturbance of technologies are hazardous to health.

It is not recommended to use often teriyaki sauce to the people having diseases of a liver, kidneys and a pancreas, and also that who suffers from an ulcer and gastritis.