Asian Recipes
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Basic Sticky Rice
Also known as “sweet rice” or glutinous rice (though it’s gluten free), sticky rice is a large white grain that becomes translucent, shiny and extremely sticky when steamed. Sticky rice is a staple in Laos, where it is especially beloved, but it has ardent fans throughout Asia. Traditionally, it’s cooked over steam in a conical woven basket. If you don’t have such a steamer, you can use a standard stacking steamer, a colander lined with muslin or cheesecloth, or a fine mesh strainer that fits over a saucepan. For the best texture, cooking sticky rice over hot steam is ideal, but it is possible to pull it off in an electric rice cooker, using less water than usual, or in a pot on the stove. What follows are the basic instructions for success.
Asian Chicken Wings With Peanut Sauce
The humble chicken wing fries up to an irresistibly crisp goodness, as legions of football fans can attest. But in this recipe, Craig Claiborne delivers an Indonesian twist on the old American standby: a soy marinade that sounds a bass note in the deep-fried result, excellent with a spicy dipping sauce on the side. It’s a long way from Buffalo, but they’re more than fit for game day.
Braised Chicken Wings in Bean Sauce
Spicy Lacquered Chicken Wings
Here is a remarkably sophisticated though dead simple take on classic dude food: chicken wings that work just as well in front of a football game on the television as at a Chinese New Year party. They are sweet, spicy, sticky, fragrant and full-flavored, and they have a fine, shiny lacquered coat. Top with a scallion and cucumber relish spiked with roasted peanuts, sesame oil and hot red peppers. A bed of sliced juicy navel oranges can serve as a foil to the spicy heat.
Vietnamese-Style Rice-Noodle and Steak Salad
Fish sauce and chilies play up the beefy nuances while peanuts add texture and a warm, toasted flavor to this Vietnamese-inspired cold steak and rice noodle salad. Use thin rice sticks to keep things as speedy as possible. They complement the flavors of the sauce and can be soaked instead of boiled.
Shrimp in Yellow Curry
Many Thai dishes are not unlike what we call curries, but although they may contain curry powder, they are more often based on a combination of herbs and aromatic vegetables, rather than dried spices. A typical curry might feature a mixture of garlic, shallots, chiles, lime leaf, sugar and galangal (or ginger). This simplified version leaves out the lime leaf and sugar, but benefits from the addition of a couple spoonfuls of fish sauce at the end of cooking. It is brightly flavored, but blessedly easy to toss together on a weeknight.
Shu Mai-Style Burgers
These burgers are inspired by the pork and shrimp filling of a shu mai dumpling. This gives you uncommon flavor in a burger — not only from the shrimp, but also from the combination of Asian ingredients — with adequate fat.
Shrimp Stock
Rice Noodle Salad With Crispy Tofu and Lime-Peanut Dressing
Unrefined expeller-pressed peanut oil contributes a wonderful nutty flavor to this dressing
Nigella Lawson's Red Cabbage
Mushrooms in Lettuce Wraps
Sticky Rice With Mango
Also known as “sweet rice” or glutinous rice (despite being gluten free), sticky rice is a large white grain that, when steamed, becomes translucent, shiny and, well, sticky. In French, it’s called riz gluant or gluey, not much more attractive. There should be a better word for it, because it really is undoubtedly one of the best things to eat under the sun.
Bok-Choy-and-Radish Coleslaw
Asian Cabbage Slaw
Cellophane Noodle Salad With Cabbage
This incredibly refreshing salad is loosely based on a recipe for a Thai cellophane noodle salad in Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid’s “Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet.” The authentic recipe includes more garlic and chiles as well as dried shrimp. Make sure to cut up the noodles before you try to toss them with the other ingredients.
Singapore curry powder
Roasted Sichuan Pepper-Salt
Roasted Squab With Sichuan-Peppercorn Marinade
Five-Spice Powder
Grilled Cured Salmon
Sichuan Hacked Chicken
Stir-Fried Oysters With Mushrooms and Scallions
Susanna Foo's Grilled Chicken Breasts