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Soy Sauce recipes

Light, dark and the dishes built on it. 416 recipes on the site call for soy sauce.

Soy Sauce is in 416 recipes from 31 cuisines, among them 212 dinners, 71 quick meals, 62 appetisers and small plates and 36 lunches. The cuisines that use it most here are Chinese (170), Japanese (65), American (51) and Korean (26). Of these, 174 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Michelada (5 min), Sesame Ginger Dressing (5 min) and Steak Marinade (5 min). For 132, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 279 easy, 119 medium and 18 hard.

As written, 98 are vegetarian, 57 vegan and 348 dairy-free. Another 9 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.

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Soy Sauce recipes — all 416 recipes

Tonkotsu Ramen
JapaneseEditor’s Pick
Prep
45m
Cook
480m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Tonkotsu Ramen

The milky, collagen-heavy pork broth that made Hakata famous, boiled hard for eight hours until the fat and gelatine…

13 hr+ · Hard
Egg Fried Rice
ChineseFeatured
Prep
10m
Cook
10m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Egg Fried Rice

The test of any wok cook: separate grains, wisps of egg through every mouthful, and that faint smoky note from the…

20 min · Easy
Korean Fried Chicken
KoreanEditor’s Pick
Prep
25m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Korean Fried Chicken

Double-fried until the crust is glassy and stays crisp under the sauce, then glazed in sticky sweet-hot gochujang…

70 min · Medium
Orange Chicken
ChineseFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Orange Chicken

The most ordered dish in American Chinese restaurants: craggy fried chicken tossed in a bright, sticky sauce built…

65 min · Medium
Chicken Katsu Curry
JapaneseFeatured
Prep
25m
Cook
30m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Katsu Curry

Japan's favourite comfort food: a panko-crusted chicken cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with a thick, gently…

55 min · Medium
Chicken Karaage
JapaneseFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Chicken Karaage

Japan's definitive fried chicken: thigh meat marinated in soy, sake and ginger, dusted in potato starch and fried…

65 min · Easy
Steamed Pork Dumplings
Chinese
Prep
45m
Cook
15m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Steamed Pork Dumplings

Juicy jiaozi with a hand-rolled wrapper thick at the centre and thin at the edge — the shape that stops the base…

2.5 hr · Medium
Kung Pao Chicken
ChineseFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Kung Pao Chicken

Sichuan's most travelled dish, done properly: velveted chicken, blistered dried chillies, the numbing buzz of…

55 min · Medium
Bibimbap
KoreanFeatured
Prep
35m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Bibimbap

A bowl of rice topped with individually seasoned vegetables, marinated beef, a fried egg and gochujang, mixed…

75 min · Medium
Miso Ramen
JapaneseEditor’s Pick
Prep
40m
Cook
90m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Miso Ramen

Sapporo-style ramen: a miso tare whisked into rich pork or chicken broth, stir-fried pork and vegetables piled on…

2 hr · Hard
Beef and Broccoli
Chinese
Prep
15m
Cook
12m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Beef and Broccoli

The most useful stir-fry in the repertoire: velveted beef, crisp-tender broccoli and a savoury oyster sauce gravy…

62 min · Easy
Beef Bulgogi
Korean
Prep
20m
Cook
10m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Beef Bulgogi

Thinly sliced beef marinated in soy, pear and sesame, then seared fast so it caramelises without stewing. Twenty…

105 min · Easy
Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup
TaiwaneseEditor’s Pick
Prep
30m
Cook
150m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup

Taiwanese braised beef noodle soup: shin and tendon cooked for hours in a broth built on soy, doubanjiang and…

3 hr · Medium
General Tso's Chicken
Chinese
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

General Tso's Chicken

The Chinese-American classic: crackling battered chicken in a sticky, tangy, faintly sweet sauce with a lick of…

60 min · Medium
Chicken Teriyaki
Japanese
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Chicken Teriyaki

Real teriyaki is a technique, not a bottled sauce: chicken pan-fried until the skin crackles, then glazed in a…

25 min · Easy
Swedish Meatballs
Swedish
Prep
20m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Swedish Meatballs

Small, tender meatballs in a creamy pan gravy, served with lingonberry jam and mashed potato. The bread-and-cream…

75 min · Easy
Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry
ChineseFeatured
Prep
8m
Cook
10m
Serves
2
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Quick Meals

Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry

The dish every Chinese household cooks and no restaurant bothers to: eggs scrambled soft, tomatoes cooked down to a…

18 min · Easy
Chicken Adobo
FilipinoFeatured
Prep
15m
Cook
45m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Adobo

Chicken braised in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and bay until the sauce reduces to a dark glaze. The Philippines'…

2 hr · Easy
Ahi Poke Bowl
InternationalFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
0m
Serves
2
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Healthy

Ahi Poke Bowl

Cubed raw tuna dressed in soy, sesame and sweet onion over rice. Hawaiian in origin and Japanese in influence, and…

20 min+ · Easy
Sweet and Sour Pork
Chinese
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Sweet and Sour Pork

Cantonese gu lou yuk with a genuinely crisp coating and a sauce balanced by real pineapple and rice vinegar rather…

65 min · Medium
Sesame Chicken
Chinese
Prep
25m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Sesame Chicken

Orange chicken's darker, nuttier sibling: the same shattering fried crust in a soy and honey glaze thickened with…

60 min · Medium
Pork Gyoza
Japanese
Prep
40m
Cook
15m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Pork Gyoza

Pan-fried pork dumplings with a lacy crisp base and a juicy, cabbage-sweet filling. The steam-fry technique gives…

90 min · Medium
Pad Kra Pao (Thai Basil Chicken)
Thai
Prep
10m
Cook
10m
Serves
2
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Quick Meals

Pad Kra Pao (Thai Basil Chicken)

Thailand's most-eaten dish: minced pork fried hard with garlic and chillies, tossed with holy basil, and served over…

20 min · Easy
Bánh Mì
Vietnamese
Prep
25m
Cook
10m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Bánh Mì

A crackling baguette filled with pâté, mayonnaise, cold cuts or grilled pork, pickled carrot and daikon, cucumber…

2 hr · Easy
Jamaican Jerk Chicken
JamaicanFeatured
Prep
20m
Cook
45m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Jamaican Jerk Chicken

Chicken marinated overnight in scotch bonnet, allspice and thyme, then cooked slowly over indirect heat until the…

13–25 hr · Easy
Nasi Goreng
Indonesian
Prep
15m
Cook
12m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Nasi Goreng

Indonesian fried rice built on kecap manis and terasi, topped with a fried egg and prawn crackers. Every household…

27 min · Easy
Chicken Lo Mein
Chinese
Prep
15m
Cook
12m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Chicken Lo Mein

Soft egg noodles tossed rather than fried, coated in a glossy soy and oyster sauce with chicken and crisp…

27 min · Easy
Wonton Noodle Soup
Chinese
Prep
35m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Wonton Noodle Soup

Prawn and pork wontons in a clear, dried-flounder broth with springy thin egg noodles. Cantonese, and the noodles go…

55 min · Medium
Chicken Chow Mein
Chinese
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Chow Mein

Springy egg noodles tossed with chicken and vegetables in a savoury brown sauce, with a few noodles crisped against…

45 min · Easy
Scallion Pancakes
Chinese
Prep
40m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Scallion Pancakes

Layered flatbreads made from a hot-water dough, rolled with oil and spring onion, coiled and flattened so they fry…

105 min · Medium
Crispy Spring Rolls
Chinese
Prep
30m
Cook
15m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Crispy Spring Rolls

Shatteringly crisp vegetable spring rolls with a filling that stays crunchy inside the wrapper. Cooling the filling…

75 min · Medium
Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken
Taiwanese
Prep
30m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Appetizers

Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken

Marinated chicken chunks coated in sweet potato starch, fried twice, and tossed with salt, white pepper and fried…

3 hr · Medium
Xiao Long Bao
ChineseEditor’s Pick
Prep
90m
Cook
163m
Serves
6
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Appetizers

Xiao Long Bao

Shanghai soup dumplings: pleated parcels holding pork and a mouthful of hot broth, created by folding chilled aspic…

9 hr · Hard
Kimbap
KoreanFeatured
Prep
35m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Kimbap

Seasoned rice and a row of cooked fillings rolled in seaweed, brushed with sesame oil and cut into coins. Korea's…

55 min · Medium
Yakisoba
Japanese
Prep
15m
Cook
12m
Serves
4
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Quick Meals

Yakisoba

Wheat noodles fried on a griddle with cabbage, pork and a thick fruity brown sauce, finished with aonori, bonito…

27 min · Easy
Mapo Tofu
Chinese
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Mapo Tofu

Silken tofu in a fierce, oily red sauce of fermented broad bean paste, minced pork and Sichuan peppercorn. Fifteen…

30 min · Easy
Oyakodon
Japanese
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
2
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Quick Meals

Oyakodon

Chicken and egg over rice — the name means "parent and child" — simmered together in a sweet-savoury dashi until the…

25 min · Easy
Galbi (Korean Short Ribs)
Korean
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Galbi (Korean Short Ribs)

Beef short ribs butterflied thin, marinated in soy, pear and sesame, and grilled over fire until the sugars char…

8–26 hr · Easy
Tteokbokki
KoreanFeatured
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
2
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Quick Meals

Tteokbokki

Chewy rice cakes simmered in a sweet-hot gochujang sauce until it clings. Korea's favourite street snack, and it…

25–45 min · Easy
Lomo Saltado
Peruvian
Prep
20m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Lomo Saltado

Peru's great fusion dish: beef stir-fried in a wok with onion, tomato and soy sauce, served with both chips and…

40 min · Easy
California Roll
Japanese
Prep
40m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Lunch

California Roll

The inside-out roll that introduced the West to sushi: crab, avocado and cucumber wrapped in seasoned rice and…

75 min · Medium
Pad See Ew
Thai
Prep
15m
Cook
12m
Serves
2
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Quick Meals

Pad See Ew

Wide rice noodles charred in a screaming wok with dark soy, egg and Chinese broccoli. The dish is defined by wok…

27 min · Easy
Red-Braised Pork Belly
Chinese
Prep
15m
Cook
90m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Red-Braised Pork Belly

Red-braised pork belly: cubes of belly caramelised in melted rock sugar, then braised in soy and Shaoxing wine until…

105 min · Easy
Sundubu Jjigae
Korean
Prep
10m
Cook
20m
Serves
2
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Dinner

Sundubu Jjigae

Silken tofu stew, arriving at the table in a stone pot still boiling violently, with a raw egg cracked in at the…

30 min · Easy
Char Siu Pork
Chinese
Prep
20m
Cook
40m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Char Siu Pork

Cantonese barbecue pork with a sticky, deeply burnished glaze and rings of red at the edge. It takes forty minutes…

9 hr · Easy
Lu Rou Fan
Taiwanese
Prep
20m
Cook
95m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Lu Rou Fan

Finely diced pork belly braised in soy, five spice and fried shallots until it becomes a glossy, gelatinous sauce…

2–2.5 hr · Easy
Gyudon
Japanese
Prep
10m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Gyudon

Thinly sliced beef and onion simmered for four minutes in dashi, soy and mirin, then tipped over rice. Japan's…

55 min · Easy
Wonton Soup
Chinese
Prep
30m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Lunch

Wonton Soup

Silky wontons with a prawn and pork filling floating in a clear, restorative broth. The wrappers are so thin they…

65 min · Medium

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