Hoisin sauce 397grs | Lee Kum Kee

It is one of the best-known sauces in oriental cuisine. It is used above all to season seafood dishes or for pork and also to sauté vegetables with an infinite number of options. It is one of the best-known sauces in oriental cuisine. It is used above all to season seafood dishes or for pork and also to sauté vegetables with an infinite number of options. This sauce is one of the pillars of Cantonese cuisine, especially its use is especially intense in the province of Guangdong (China). The hoisin sauce has a unique and unrepeatable flavor, thanks to the mixture of flavors that produce the fusion of the ingredients it contains. When trying the hoisin sauce, we noticed on the palate a mixture of sweet and salty flavors, with a slight acid touch. Similar to sweet and sour sauce but with a more intense flavor and less acid. Hoisin is ideal for seasoning meats, dumplings or vegetables. And it is that this sauce is known as the Chinese barbecue sauce, although it has little to do with it. Hoisin sauce has fermented soybean paste as its main ingredient and is mixed with five more Chinese spices; starry fennel seeds, chinese cinnamon, cloves, sichuan pepper. The word hoisin, in the Chinese language, means shellfish, even though the sauce itself does not contain this food. The origins of its name are doubtful. According to Lee Kim Lee, one of the leading brands in the marketing of this sauce, in the past it was used mainly to season shellfish and fish.