Types of Sauces
Barbecue Sauce: is a mixture of tomato sauce, vinegar, and spices used when preparing kebabs and barbecued chicken.
Tomato Sauce: is one of the most famous types of sauces, the main ingredient of which is tomatoes. In addition to tomatoes, onions, basil, salt, oil, garlic, and other spices are sometimes used. Tomato sauce is used as a raw material in the preparation of many sauces.
Ketchup sauce: One of the important tomato products, ketchup sauce is a type of sauce that is usually made from ripe tomatoes. The main ingredients of today’s ketchup sauce are tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, salt and sweet pepper, which of course sometimes onion, celery and other spices are also used in its preparation. Ketchup is used as a condiment and to flavor food. A man named Hinza was the first to produce factory-made ketchup in 1876.
Chili Sauce: Another tomato product is chili sauce, a spicy sauce made from tomatoes, garlic, onion, pepper, vinegar, sugar, and salt. Its formula is almost similar to ketchup, except that instead of tomato puree used in ketchup, chili sauce uses peeled and chopped tomatoes. Of course, some manufacturers use more sugar and onions than ketchup, and some manufacturers add more pepper to make it more spicy.
Mayonnaise: It is a thick, white, and creamy sauce that is usually served cold. This sauce is an emulsion of vegetable oil suspended in egg yolk. Vinegar or lemon juice and various spices are also used to flavor this sauce. Mayonnaise is considered the mother of all sauces and is the main base of many mixed sauces and salad dressings, for example, aioli is mayonnaise made with olive oil and garlic, tartar sauce is mayonnaise seasoned with pickles and aromatic vegetables. Russian dressing is mayonnaise with a dash of red sauce, and Thousand Island dressing is Russian dressing with pickles and aromatic vegetables.
There are conflicting stories about how mayonnaise originated, but many culinary experts believe that it was first made in France as a mixture of egg yolks and oil. French chefs created this sauce in a neighborhood called Mahon in 1756, which is why they called it maon, meaning sauce made in Mahon, which was later changed to mayonnaise. Of course, the Italians claim that this sauce is similar to a mixture that was made in ancient Rome from a mixture of olive oil and eggs. However, the historical dispute over the inventor of this delicious condiment continues.
Mayonnaise factories first started operating in Manhattan in 1905.
Tanning sauce: A frying sauce is a type of sauce that is added to meat when it is grilled. The content of this category of sauces is often tomatoes with vinegar and sugar. Sugar is an important component of the oven sauce that causes the sauce to caramelize during cooking and absorbs the juices of the meat.
Tartar sauce: A type of thick white sauce made from mayonnaise and chopped vegetables. This sauce is used to season various fish dishes. This sauce is from the mayonnaise family.
Salad dressing: A stable, thick emulsion made from vegetable oil, eggs with egg yolks, and an acidic substance. It contains about 40 to 50 percent oil, and one or more other ingredients such as vinegar, lemon juice, salt, sugar, spices, milk, mustard, starch, gum, and permitted additives are also added to it.
French sauce: It consists of an unstable emulsion of oil, vinegar, and several spices, to which pectin or vegetable gums are sometimes added to stabilize the emulsion. French sauce is used with salads and cold dishes.
Soy sauce: A type of fermented sauce made from soybeans, roasted grains, water, and salt.
This type of sauce is usually used in Asian cuisine. Although there are different types of soy sauce, all of them are salty and brown in color and are used to flavor food when cooking or at the dining table. This sauce was first prepared in China, but today it is used throughout the Asian continent, especially in Japan and even in other parts of the world. Of course, the soy sauce that Japanese people use in cooking is very different from Chinese soy sauce. Soy sauce is usually salty and is not suitable for some people.