Jump to content
  • Welcome to the eG Forums, a service of the eGullet Society for Culinary Arts & Letters. The Society is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the culinary arts. These advertising-free forums are provided free of charge through donations from Society members. Anyone may read the forums, but to post you must create a free account.

Maggi sauce


torolover

Recommended Posts

I have recipes for Thai cookery that call for Golden Mountain Sauce and the book states that the nearest substitute would be "a Swiss product called Maggi Seasoning or, in Europe, Maggi Arome - a well established product of which, I do beloeve, the Golden Mountain Sauce is a copy"

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Golden Mountain Sauce is nothing like Maggi sauce. GMS is basically soy cause with a bit of sugar and some salt which does mean it tastes different.

Maggi sauce contains no soy. Or anything very much what I'd want to eat or pay for. It is water, salt, wheat gluten, wheat, and less than 2% of wheat bran, sugar, acetic acid, artificial flavor, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, dextrose, caramel color.

Edited by liuzhou (log)

...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

The Kitchen Scale Manifesto

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Charmaine Solomon is the author of the cookbook I was referring to and in her opinion it is "the nearest substitute" for those of us who can't get Golden Mountain Sauce. So to answer torolover's question about whether to buy the European or Asian Maggi, Charmaine Solomon would recommend the European version.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Maggi seems fairly common in Vietnamese cuisine and I've seen many varieties of it on sale in the local Vietnamese grocery store. I know it is used throughout Nguyen's Into the Vietnamese Kitchen . Personally, I don't think a Bahn mi could be made without it.

As to the OP's question, not sure what the difference is between Asia/European Maggi. Can't imagine it would make that big of a difference considering how sparingly it is used. (Hell, my bottle says it was made in Mexico!)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Maggi tastes sort of like liquid Marmite. We always have Maggi in our kitchen, but I've never really used it for actual cooking, just as a condiment. It's absolutely fabulous on boiled and fried eggs, definately an umami bomb!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

My grandfather loved Maggi. Used to always have it around when growing up in Hong Kong. I never got into it, always preferred soy sauce. If I remember correctly, we also used it as a condiment for the most part and not for cooking. I have no idea where the ones we got in Hong Kong were made in....

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Maggi is a pretty common Vietnamese Ammerican ingredient, often used on banh mi. It is a table condiment at several Viet restos Near me. It is also the key ingredient in the dish nui Maggi (read about it here on Andrea Nguyens website: http://www.vietworldkitchen.com/blog/2008/08/vietnamese-garlic-noodles.html ).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Which Maggi sauce do you recommend for Thai/Vietnamese cooking? I saw one that is imported from Europe, and another one from Asia.

Thanks!

Interestingly enough, I have found Maggi sauce mostly in Mexican markets in my neighborhoods, and indeed in the cooks kitchen while on vacation in Mexico. I actually recently just bought some from a Mexican market as a recipe I had for poblano mole called for it. I have also found it in an Chinese market near Chinatown here in Chicago. Cheers and good luck!! Todd in Chicago

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yes, they use Maggi sauce, but I still think it is not a good substitute for the very different Golden Mountain Sauce.

Maggi sauce is also available in most supermarkets here in southern China, but it isn't used as a substitute for soy sauce here, either.

...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

The Kitchen Scale Manifesto

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Golden Mountain Sauce is in my pantry. And it is the least expensive at the market but the best nonetheless. And holds some significant real estate on the shelf. They stock the Maggi along side the soy sauce products IIRC.

One more condiment won't hurt... will it?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 9 months later...

I use Maggi in cooking, but very small amounts as it is intense and can over power. I find it called for in a few of the German recipes I use. The eouropean version would be the best substitute, I think.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I recall that the ingredients differ in Asian and Europe versions. The Made in Germany version that I have contains:

- soy sauce (water, salt, wheat), msg, salt, water, acetic acid, yeast, dextrose, inosine monophosphate, artificial color.

Monterey Bay area

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 11 months later...
×
×
  • Create New...