Soy Sauce Chocolate Chip Cookies

Soy sauce chocolate chip cookies may sound strange, but after adding a teaspoon of soy sauce to a few different chocolate chip cookie recipes, I'd say it's worth trying at least once. These cookies do not taste like soy sauce. Their flavor is just deeper, a little more interesting, and strangely familiar. It adds a touch of what we know is umami.

Soy Sauce Umami Chocolate Chip Cookies

Umami is often called the fifth taste, and here it shows up quietly. When you add the soy sauce, the dough smells faintly like browned butter. Once baked, the flavor is barely detectable on its own, but it makes the butter, chocolate, and vanilla flavor linger. It adds a subtle savory edge and a slightly tangy finish that keeps you reaching for another cookie.

After testing a teaspoon of Kikkoman soy sauce in several chocolate chip cookie recipes, I can confidently say it's worth trying at least once. I liked it. And not in a novelty way but in a "why does this taste so good?" way.

Soy sauce or not, this is a pretty good cookie recipe.

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Recipe

Soy Sauce Chocolate Chip Cookies

Anna

Chocolate chip cookies made with a secret ingredient, soy sauce.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 12 minutes mins

Cooling Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 22 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 32

Ingredients

 

• ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened (170 grams)
• ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar (120 grams)
• ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons very firmly packed brown sugar (130 grams)
• 1 large egg
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
• ¾ teaspoon soy sauce
• 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour unbleached (280 grams)
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ¾ teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ cups dark or bittersweet chocolate chips

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine the butter and both sugars and beat with an electric mixer until creamy, Beat in the egg, vanilla and soy sauce.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• With a spatula scraper or with lowest speed of mixer, stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture.
• Stir in the chocolate chips.
• Drop by the cookies by rounded tablespoons onto the baking sheets. Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes or until the edges are browned. Alternatively, divide dough into 4 equal sections. Chill the dough, then divide each section into 8 pieces to make 32 cookies.

Keyword Chocolate Chip, Soy Sauce, Umami

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