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I realized I needed a quick dressing while making a dense bean salad for lunch this week. My fallback recipe for salad dressing is Ina Garten\u2019s simple two-ingredient vinaigrette. I drizzled it over my salad, and while it was pretty good, I felt the chickpeas and edamame pods needed a kick of umami. And that\u2019s when it hit me. I can upgrade the vinaigrette with the umami powerhouse that\u2019s always stocked in my pantry: soy sauce.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n You\u2019re probably thinking, “But Kat, soy sauce is meant for stir-fried veggies and not a salad!” I would have been on that boat, too, had I not tried it myself.\n<\/p>\n After making the vinaigrette, I mixed in a tablespoon of soy sauce. I recommend you start with a teaspoon and go from there, adding more to suit your palate. For those of you who love sweet salad dressing, use a sweeter soy sauce. I wouldn\u2019t go as sweet as kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce), but you\u2019re welcome to experiment.\n<\/p>\n I recommend Lee Kum Kee\u2019s sweet soy sauce, as it also has a bit of smoky caramel flavor. It\u2019s my go-to soy sauce when steaming whole fish or braising meats in a clay pot, and it\u2019s perfect as an addition to vinaigrette because it provides a touch of sweetness without having to add honey or sugar.\n<\/p>\n Having a Vietnamese and Cantonese background, I naturally keep more than just one type of soy sauce at home. My everyday soy sauce is quite special: shirodashi, or white soy sauce, made with oysters, mushrooms, bonito, and kombu extract (all ingredients packed with glutamates, or nature\u2019s MSG). You can tell this is a good soy sauce because everything on the label is written in Japanese, and the name translates to SUPER UMAMI.\n<\/p>\n This soy sauce makes everything better, including Ina Garten\u2019s vinaigrette, by adding umami notes and enhancing other flavors. I buy my soy sauce from my local Japanese supermarket, but you can find it online for a slight upcharge.\n<\/p>\n So, the next time you\u2019re about to make a salad, consider whipping up my three-ingredient vinaigrette to drizzle over your greens. A mere splash will level up even the simplest salads, amping up the flavor with an irresistible umami kick.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Simply Recipes \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n <\/span> <\/p>\n #1Ingredient #Upgrade #Salad #Dressing #Pantry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I realized I needed a quick dressing while making a dense bean salad for lunch this week. My fallback recipe for salad dressing is Ina Garten\u2019s simple two-ingredient vinaigrette. I drizzled it over my salad, and while it was pretty good, I felt the chickpeas and edamame pods needed a kick of umami. And that\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97,79,287,106,98],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinner","tag-1ingredient","tag-dressing","tag-pantry","tag-salad","tag-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoz.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} My Salad Dressing Upgrade <\/span> <\/h2>\n
\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n My Tips for Making Salad Dressing <\/span> <\/h2>\n
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