Ingredients & Preparation
Common Ingredients: A-L
A huge variety of herbs and spices, curry pastes and condiments are integral parts of dishes across Asia. Unlike bland Western dining, there is no salt or pepper in sight, and certainly no tomato ketchup! Instead, dishes are intensely flavourful and often accompanied by a sauce specific to each dish... The innate complexity of Asian cooking is at first bewildering... A through L/ M through Z … » read more...
Preparation & Cooking Asian Recipes
Cooking Styles
Chinese/Asian Cooking Techniques These encompass some of those used in the West, plus a number of Asian regional styles. Frying is either shallow, deep or stir-fry depending on the dish and ingredients. Steaming is a traditional Chinese cooking method that has spread across countries with Chinese populations, and been adopted by other cultures. Roasting is common, as evidenced by Chinese style … » read more...
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Japanese Sauces
Basic Teriyaki Sauce Daikon Sauce Amazu Shoga (Pickled Pink Ginger) Chirizu (Spicy Dipping Sauce for Sashimi) Bulldog Sauce Ponzu (Citrus sauce) Dengaku Miso Amazu (Sweet Vinegar) Cucumber Relish Oil and Vinegar Ginger … [Read More...]
Japanese Desserts
There are no sweets or desserts in the Western sense of the word to be found in traditional Japanese cooking, instead meals are ended with fresh fruits of the season. Sweet things do exist however, originally they were something to indulge in when … [Read More...]
Japanese Vegetarian Dishes
Eggplant Miso Soup Traditional Miso Soup Spicy Japanese Slaw Shingjagaimo No Goma Fumiae (New Potatoes in Sesame Sauce) Shiitake-Kombu Dashi (Mushroom and Seaweed Seasoning Broth) Fried Tofu Noodles, Tofu and Wakami Mushinasu … [Read More...]
Making Udon Noodles
Make sure you have the following stuff first.... Ingredients and equipment Amount Note Flour Medium-strength flour 700g Serves approximately 7 Salt 40g Little more during summer time and little less during winter … [Read More...]