Best Substitutes for Soy Sauce
Out of Soy Sauce? Here are the best alternatives that work in cocktail recipes.
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Original Ingredient
Soy Sauce
Other
Intensely savory nose with deep umami, fermented soybean, and briny salt. Palate is rich and salty with roasted, caramelized depth. Long, savory finish with complex fermented character.
Recommended Substitutes
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Worcestershire Sauce
Use as a 1:1 substitute unless otherwise noted.
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Olive Brine
Use as a 1:1 substitute unless otherwise noted.
General Substitution Tips
- → Match the alcohol level: a 40% spirit needs a similarly strong replacement or adjust volume.
- → For liqueurs, dilute spirits + simple syrup can replicate sweetness and proof.
- → Citrus substitutions: lemon and lime are mostly interchangeable at a 1:1 ratio.
- → For bitters, Angostura is the most neutral substitute for most other aromatic bitters.