Tauco

Tauco, Taucu, Taotjo, Tao Jiew or Tauchu (Chinese: 豆醬; pinyin: dòujiàng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāu-chiùⁿ; Thai: เต้าเจี้ยว, RTGS: Tao Jiew) is a paste made from preserved fermented yellow soybeans in Chinese Indonesian, Malaysian and Thai cuisines.^[1] Tauco is made by boiling yellow soybeans, grinding them, mixing them with flour, and fermenting them to make a soy paste. The soy paste is soaked in salt water and sun-dried for several weeks, furthering the fermentation process, until the color of the paste has turned yellow-reddish. Good tauco has a distinct aroma.^[2] The sauce is also commonly used in other Indonesian cuisine traditions, such as Sundanese cuisine and Javanese cuisine. Taucu is generally used in cooking by Chinese Malaysians, Singaporeans, Bruneians, and Thais.^[3]

The sauce is often used as a condiment and flavouring for stir-fried dishes such as tahu tauco (tofu in tauco sauce), kakap tahu tausi (red snapper with tofu in soybean sauce), in soup such as swikee oh (frog legs in tauco soup) and pie oh (softshell turtle in tauco soup), or stir fried with kangkung (water spinach). Today the major production centre of tauco in Indonesia are in Cianjur in West Java, and Pekalongan in Central Java. In Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei, the main commercial brand of taucu is Yeo Hiap Seng (Yeo's).^[4][5] In Thailand, the sauce is often used in stir-fries, such as Pad Mee Korat & stir-fried vegetables, and also dipping sauces such as Khao Man Gai.

See also

• Douchi
• Yellow soybean paste
• Fermented bean paste
• List of fermented soy products
• Miso

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Soy (Glycine max)

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Meat analogues

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Sauces and
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Soy sauce based	Ganjang Ponzu Sweet soy sauce Tamari Teriyaki Tsuyu Yìn yóu
Pastes	Doenjang Doubanjiang Miso Sweet bean sauce Yellow soybean paste Tương
Fermented bean	Akhuni Fermented bean curd Douchi Kinema Tauco Nattō

Other foods

• Mamenori
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• List of fermented soy products

Biochemicals

Phytoestrogens	Genistein Genistin Glycitein Glycitin Ononin Daidzein Equol (metabolite) O-DMA (metabolite) Daidzin (leaves)
Globulins (proteins)	Beta-conglycinin Glycinin
PHAs (Lectins)	Soybean agglutinin (lectin)
Enzymes	Beta-amylase Lipoxygenase Cysteine proteases
Trypsin inhibitors	Kunitz inhibitor Bowman-Birk inhibitor
Other	Soy lecithin (mix of Phospholipids) Lunasin Unsaponifiables Tocopherols Sterols Antinutrients Phytates Protease Inhibitors Cystatins

Companies

• 8th Continent
• Alpro
• Boca Burger
• Gardenburger
• Kikkoman
• Morningstar Farms
• Mr Bean
• Plamil Foods
• Silk
• So Good
• Tofutti
• Vitasoy
• Yamasa
• Yeo Hiap Seng

Other

• Diet for a Small Planet
• Kikkoman Soy Sauce Museum
• William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi
• Yuasa, artisan town of historic soy sauce distilleries

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