Cook's Guide to Asian Vegetables
Published on 20. November 2012
208 pages
978-1-4629-0716-8 (ISBN)
Description
Here at last is a book which all cooks need to know about the fast-growing list of Asian vegetables found in Asian grocery stores and specialty gourmet shops.
With attractive watercolors and photographs, A Cook's Guide to Asian Vegetables helps you identify more than 170 vegetables and vegetable products commonly used in Asian cuisine and sold world-wide. Categories include:
With attractive watercolors and photographs, A Cook's Guide to Asian Vegetables helps you identify more than 170 vegetables and vegetable products commonly used in Asian cuisine and sold world-wide. Categories include:
- Beans, peas, pulses
- Cabbage and other leafy greens
- Fruiting vegetables
- Gourds and melons
- Herbs
- Mushrooms and other fungi
- The onion family
- Preserved vegetables
- Seaweeds
- Tofu and other soy products
- Tubers, stems, and roots
- Any many more!
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Discovering a New World of Taste
- BEANS, PEAS & PULSES
- Azuki,
- Black-Eyed Beans
- Black Gram or Urad Dal
- Broad Beans
- Channa Dal
- Chickpeas
- Green Beans
- Drumsticks or Horseradish Tree Pods
- Kidney Beans
- Long Beans or Snake Beans
- Mung Beans
- Mung Bean Sprouts
- Pea Shoots or Dou Miao
- Pigeon Peas or Toor Dal
- Red Lentils
- Red-Streaked Beans or Borlotti Beans
- Sesbania
- Snow Peas
- Soy Beans
- Soy Bean Sprouts
- Sugar Peas
- Twisted Cluster Beans or Petai
- Winged Beans
- CABBAGES & LEAFY GREENS
- Amaranth or Chinese Spinach
- Asian Lettuce
- Bok Choy
- Boxthorn
- Broccoli
- Cauliflower
- Ceylon Spinach
- Chinese or Napa Cabbage
- Chinese Kale or Kailan
- Cucumber Shoots
- Fern Tips
- Flowering Cabbage or Choy Sum
- Garland Chrysanthemum
- Kohlrabi
- Mizuna
- Mustard Cabbage
- Purslane
- Round Cabbage
- Sauropus
- Stem Lettuce
- Watercress
- Water Spinach Or Kangkung
- FRUITING VEGETABLES
- Asian Chiles
- Baby Corn
- Banana Flower
- Bilimbi or Belimbing
- Breadfruit
- Breadnut
- Chestnuts
- Jackfruit
- Mangoes
- Papayas
- Peanuts
- Plantains
- GOURDS & MELONS
- Angled Gourd
- Bitter Gourd
- Bottle Gourd
- Chayote
- Eggplants
- Fuzzy Melons
- Green Cucumbers
- Loofah
- Snake Gourd
- Winter Melons
- Yellow Cucumber
- HERBS
- Asian Basils
- Asian Pennywort
- Chinese Celery
- Coriander Leaves or Cilantro
- Curry Leaves
- Kaffir Lime Leaves
- Kinome
- Lemongrass
- Mitsuba
- Pandanus Leaves
- Peperomia
- Polygonum or Laksa Leaf
- Rice Paddy Herb
- Salam Leaves
- Sawtooth Herb
- Shiso or Perilla
- Wild Pepper Leaves
- MUSHROOMS & OTHER FUNGI
- Dried Bamboo Fungus
- Black Moss
- Dried Black Mushrooms
- Button Mushrooms
- Cloud Ear or Wood Ear Fungus
- Dried Cloud Ear or Wood Ear Fungus
- Enokitake or Golden Mushrooms
- Matsutake Mushrooms
- Nameko Mushrooms
- Oyster Mushrooms
- Shiitake Mushrooms
- Shimeji Mushrooms
- Straw Mushrooms
- White Cloud or Dried Silver Fungus
- THE ONION FAMILY
- Garlic
- Garlic or Chinese Chives
- Leeks
- Onions
- Shallots
- Spring Onions
- PRESERVED VEGETABLES
- Preserved Chinese Cabbage
- Pickled Daikon
- Kim Chee
- Dried Lily Buds or Day Lilies
- Pickled Mustard Cabbage
- Preserved Mustard Cabbage
- Sichuan Pickled Vegetable
- Pickled Swatow Mustard Cabbage
- SEAWEEDS
- Hijiki
- Konbu or Dried Kelp
- Nori or Dried Laver
- Wakame
- TOFU & OTHER SOY PRODUCTS
- Bean Curd orTofu
- Deep-fried Bean Curd
- Grilled Bean Curd
- Pressed Bean Curd or Tau Kwa
- Silken Bean Curd
- Bean Curd Skin or Yuba
- Soy Milk
- Tau Fa orTofu Custard
- Tempeh
- TUBERS, STEMS & ROOTS
- Arrowhead
- Arrowroot
- Bamboo Shoots
- Banana Stem
- Burdock
- Cassava or Tapioca
- Daikon or White Radish
- Galangal
- Ginger
- Jicama or Bangkuang
- Kencur or Aromatic Ginger
- Krachai or Chinese Keys
- Lotus Roots
- Palm Hearts
- Sweet Potatoes
- Taro
- Torch Ginger
- Turmeric
- Wasabi
- Water Chestnuts
- Wild Rice Shoots
- Yams
- Recipe Ingredients
- Recipe List
- Index
