What is kecap manis (sweet soy sauce)?

‘Kecap Manis’ (sweet soy sauce) is one of the essential sauce in Indonesian cuisine. It is a sweetened aromatic soy sauce, originating from Indonesia, which has a dark color, a thick syrup consistency, and a unique, pronounced, sweet and somewhat mollasses-like flavor due to the generous addition of palm sugar. This condiment is made of a fermented paste of boiled black soybeans, roasted grain, salt, water, and Aspergillus wentil molds, to which palm sugar is added. It is very easy to get it as it’s available in most of the supermarkets especially in the Asian grocery stores (source: Wikipedia) I’ll show you how I use this special sweet sauce in most of my Indonesian recipes 😊