Vodka sauce Vodka sauce Vodka sauce is an American cuisine sauce made from a smooth tomato sauce, vodka, typical Italian herbs and heavy cream, which gives the sauce its distinctive orange coloration. It gained popularity in the 1970s, when a variation won a national recipe contest in Italy, although it may well have been a sauce before its popularization in the 1970s. It is a key ingredient in penne alla vodka. The vodka's function is, ostensibly, to release flavors in the tomato that are normally inaccessible; using alcoholic beverages for this purpose is common in Italian cooking, although usually accomplished with wine.
Soy sauce the acid-hydrolyzed vegetable protein variety. In Indonesia, soy sauce is known as "kecap" (old spelling: "ketjap"), which is a catch-all term for fermented sauces, and cognate to the English word "ketchup". The most popular type of soy sauce in Indonesian cuisine is "kecap manis" or sweet soy sauce. The term "kecap" is also used to describe other non soy-based sauces, such as "kecap ikan" (fish sauce) and "kecap Inggris" (worcestershire sauce; lit. "English sauce", due to worchestershire sauce originating in England). Three common varieties of soy-based "kecap" exist in Indonesian cuisine, used either as ingredients or condiments: "Shōyu" is traditionally