How to use fish sauce properly?

Fish sauce is the national flavor of the Vietnamese people, used frequently and popularly when processing dishes. But choosing and using fish sauce in the right way is not everyone knows.

How to recognize delicious and healthy fish sauce

To choose delicious and quality fish sauce, you should pay attention to a few factors: color, taste, safety.

1. In terms of color , delicious fish sauce often comes from dark straw yellow to yellow cockroaches, reflecting the source of fresh and quality fish. Delicious fish sauce after opening and exposing to the air will turn darker.This is the natural phenomenon of traditional fish sauce, when the protein level in fish sauce is oxidized.In addition, you should also pay close attention to the bottle of fish sauce under light and upside down the bottle.If the fish sauce is clear and there is no residue is good, if there is sediment and it does not melt, it is an impurity, you should not buy it.

Delicious fish sauce often comes from dark straw yellow to yellow cockroaches.

1. In terms of taste,delicious fish sauce often has aromatic fish flavor, characteristic.When tasting it will taste salty at the tip of the tongue when it comes into contact, but then it will have a sweet taste and throat.This shows that fish sauce has a high natural protein, made from fresh anchovies from famous waters like Phan Thiet.
2. Regarding food hygiene and safety, fish sauce has no bacteria, applying advanced technologies to production such as pasteurization technology.

A few tips when making fish sauce

In fish sauce contains many nutrients such as protein and vitamins such as A, D, B12. So boiling fish sauce for too long on the kitchen will destroy the nutrients and make fish sauce taste change.

1. With soup, fish sauce should be put in the last and then turn off the stove.If you taste fish sauce and let it boil for a long time on the kitchen, the dish will lose its taste due to the flavor of the fish sauce is changed.

Fish sauce contains many nutrients such as protein and vitamins such as A, D, and B12.

1. With stock items such as meat, fish, just marinate the ingredients with sugar, pepper and a little salt, stock until the meat, fish is soft, then add fish sauce, then turn off the stove.This way of creating a unique flavor, not losing the nutrients in fish sauce.

To use fish sauce properly is not difficult, just a little sophistication and ingenuity, women were able to process dishes that are both attractive and nutritious as well as safe for family health. !