Food has different taste depending on original scent. Even if food is tasty, but does not have scent, the purpose of the food can't be accomplished, so a spice is considered as a critical element.
In Western food culture, various kinds of spices are...
Food has different taste depending on original scent. Even if food is tasty, but does not have scent, the purpose of the food can't be accomplished, so a spice is considered as a critical element.
In Western food culture, various kinds of spices are used, which remove odors of fish and meats, improve taste and scent and play a role as preservatives. Spices are extracted from flowers, stems, roots, leaves and skin of plants. These are brewed while cooked.
Lemongrass is herb that smells like lemon as the name indicates. It is a critical main ingredient of Tom Yum Goong, one of the three greatest soups in the world.
When the leaves of lemongrass that look like silver grass are torn and rubbed, they smell like lemon. The ingredient of the scent is citral, which is the same as lemon and takes up 70~80% of essential oils. The essential oil of lemongrass is used for candy, soap, perfume, hair conditioner and medicine. The part used for cooking is mostly the white part near the root, and it is used for chicken soup, sauce and fish dishes. Young yellow leave are made into teas, which have great scent, improve digestion and prevent anemia. They are also used to cure diarrhea, fever and headache. 1001 Foods You Must Taste Before You Die. Frances Case (2009). Maronie Books.
Sauce is usually used for western food, improves colors, flavor and taste, enhances appetite and nutritional value, maintains moist and functions to mix ingredients well. Choi SK (2004). Theory and Practice of Sauce.
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For meat sauce, ground beef is completely sauteed. Carrots, onions, salary and garlic are sauteed. After the sauteed beef and vegetables are mixed, tomato paste is added and stirred with spatula to prevent sauce pan from being burned. With tomato puree, bay leaves, oregano, basil, dried clove buds added, it is slowly cooked in a low heat and seasoned with salt.
The consumption of sauce is increasing because people eat it as normal meals and convenience food due to the development of food and restaurant industry along with the popularity of western food.
Among them, tomato sauce is one of the five greatest original sauces in western food culture, and it is especially used for pasta of Italian food. It is also used for various dishes including fish, vegetables and meats. Lycopersicon esculeulentum Mill in tomatoes prevents lung cancer, stomach cancer and prostate cancer and have excellent effects on kidney, high blood pressure, diabetes, low blood pressure, anemia. This is because tomatoes have a variety of bio-active substances, and especially they are supply food of lycopene, which is excellent on anticancer effect and anti-oxidative activity. Kim HR, Ahn JB (2014). Analysis of free aminoacids and polyphenol compounds from lycopene variety of cherry tomatoes. The Korean J Culinary Res 20(3):37-49.
In producing sauce with tomatoes that have various bio-active substances, this study did not use starch or roux as thickening materials, but instead used the original thickness of tomatoes and tomato puree, and the quality of tomato meat sauce was intended to analyzed according to the amount of lemongrass that has medical action. In addition, through a sensory test, the optimized sauce with the most proper mixture in taste and preference was selected, and through tests of anti-oxidation, chromaticity, concentration and Ph, a new type of tomato meat sauce that has the optimum condition was intended to be produced.