Wok Cooking Made Easy: Delicious Meals in Minutes
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Mention "wok cooking," and one immediately visualizes a huge wok being wielded above a mighty flame. One also thinks Asian "comfort food"--with accompanying images of wholesome and thoughtfully prepared meals, eaten together with family members in the comfort of the home.
Wok stir-frying is one of the best and quickest cooking methods out there. Because of the intense heat required, the food is cooked rapidly, and its taste and nutritional value are preserved. Plus, it's single dish cooking at it's finest!
In Wok Cooking Made Easy, you'll find nutritious and easy-to-prepare Asian wok recipes compiled for a Western audience.
Favorite wok recipes include:
- Spinach with Garlic stir-fry
- Hot and Spicy Sichuan Tofu
- Sliced Fish with Mushrooms and Ginger
- Classic Sichuan Chicken with Dried Chilies
- Thai Fried Rice
- Five Spice Chicken.
All of the recipes in this cookbook are light, healthy and tasty, nor do they require special skills to prepare. May this cookbook bring endless cooking pleasure as you venture into the world of Asian cuisine.
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Wok Cooking Made Easy - Nongkran Daks
Measurements used in this book
All our recipes are thoroughly tested in the Periplus test kitchen. Standard measuring cups and spoons are used throughout, and all cup and spoon measurements are level. We have used large eggs in all recipes unless otherwise stated.
International Measures
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Recipes by Nongkran Daks, Alexandra Greeley, Rohani Jelani, Chef Tummanoon Punchun, Daniel Reid, Devagi Sanmugam, Cecilia Au-Yang. Photography by Jim McFarlance, Edmond Ho, Suan I. Lim, Chester Ong, Jörg Sundermann, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, Andy Wong. Food styling by Susie Donald, Rohani Jelani, Suan I. Lim, Chester Ong, Cecilia Au-Yang, Christina Ong, Myrna Sim, Christopher Tan
Recipe testing by Angie Ng.
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Contents
MAIL ORDER SOURCES
Finding the ingredients for Asian home cooking has become very simple. Most supermarkets carry staples such as soy sauce, fresh ginger, and fresh lemongrass. Almost every large metropolitan area has Asian markets serving the local population—just check your local business directory. With the Internet, exotic Asian ingredients and cooking utensils can be easily found online. The following list is a good starting point of online merchants offering a wide variety of goods and services.
http://www.asiafoods.com
http://www.geocities.com/MadisonAvenue/8074/VarorE.html
http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Food/Ethnic_and_Regional/Asian/
http://templeofthai.com/
http://www.orientalpantry.com/
http://www.zestyfoods.com/
http://www.thaigrocer.com/Merchant/index.htm
http://asianwok.com/
http://pilipinomart.com/
http://www.indiangrocerynet.com/
http://www.orientalfoodexpress.com/
Introduction
Mention wok cooking,
and one immediately visualizes a huge wok being wielded above a mighty flame by an Asian chef. One also thinks Asian comfort food
—with accompanying images of wholesome and thoughtfully prepared meals, eaten together with family members in the comfort of the home.
While there is sometimes still a mystique that Asian chefs meticulously prepare all their ingredients in the elaborate ancestral manner, the truth is that many home chefs in Asia today can now hardly afford the time to do so. But fortunately, wok stir-frying is one of the best and quickest cooking methods to use. Because of the intense heat required, the food is cooked rapidly, and its taste and nutritional value are preserved. The Chinese wok is a fantastic implement, as its deep bowl-like shape and sloping sides ensure that the ingredients remain in the center, where the heat is most intense.
The aim of Wok Cooking Made Easy is to introduce nutritious and easy-to-prepare Asian wok recipes to a Western audience—ranging from a simple Spinach with Garlic stir-fry to Hot and Spicy Sichuan Tofu, Sliced Fish with Mushrooms and Ginger, and the classic Sichuan Chicken with Dried Chilies, Thai Fried Rice and Five Spice Chicken.
All of the recipes in this volume are light, healthy and tasty and require no special skills to prepare. May this book bring endless cooking pleasure as you venture into the world of Asian cuisine.
Important Asian Ingredients
Asian eggplants are long and slender, smaller and slightly milder than Mediterranean globe eggplants. Asian eggplants can be either purple or green.
Bean paste is made from fermented black or yellow soybeans, and is an important seasoning in Asian dishes. Black bean paste (tau cheo) has a strong, salty flavor, while yellow bean paste (miso) is slightly sweet. Sweet
and hot
salted beans have added sugar or garlic and chili. Soybean pastes are available at Asian food stores.
Black Chinese mushrooms, also known as shiitake mushrooms, are used widely in Asian cooking. The dried ones must be soaked in hot water to soften before use, from 15 minutes to an hour, depending on the thickness. The stems are removed and discarded; only the caps are used. Fresh shiitake mushroom stems can be eaten if the bottoms are trimmed.
Cardamom pods are highly aromatic and contain tiny black seeds. If whole pods are used, they should be removed from the food before serving. If only the seeds are called for, lightly smash the pods and remove the seeds, discarding the pods. Ground cardamon is sold in packets or tins.
Chili peppers come in many shapes, sizes and colors. Fresh green and red Asian finger-length chilies are moderately hot. Tiny red, green or orange bird’s-eye chilies (chili padi) are very hot. Dried chilies are usually deseeded, cut into lengths and soaked in warm water to soften before use. Ground red pepper, also known as cayenne is made from ground dried chilies.