Pesto with roasted potatoes and sirloin steak. Vegan variations of pesto can include mixes of fresh basil, nuts such as walnut or pine nut, olive oil, and the addition of miso paste and nutritional yeast to provide additional flavor enhancement to the dish. For reasons of expense or availability, walnuts, pecans, cashews or even peanuts are sometimes substituted for the traditional pine nuts. Also, while the nuts are traditionally used as is, some recipes call for prior toasting. While not preferable, other culinary nuts may be used due to the taste disturbances that some people may experience after consuming pine nuts
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