The Everything Chinese Cookbook: 300 Recipes for Fresh, Flavorful Chinese Meals

by Manyee Elaine Mar

Overview

Make your favorite dishes at home!

Chinese takeout is a go-to solution for busy nights, but typical Chinese restaurant fare can be loaded with fat, sugar, and salt. With The Everything Chinese Cookbook, 2nd Edition, you can make healthier (and more delicious) versions of your favorite takeout dishes at home, including:

• Spicy szechwan peanut sauce
• Crab rangoon
• Quick and easy hot and sour soup
• Chicken chow mein
• Traditional mu shu pork
• Vegetable egg foo yung
• Stir-fried orange beef
• Drunken chicken wings
• Spicy shrimp with hot shanghai noodles
• Szechwan eggplant with black rice vinegar
• Sesame seed dumplings with red bean paste
• Almond cookies

In this completely updated and revised cookbook, you will find traditional recipes made with fresh, vibrant vegetables; lean meats; and just the right amount of healthy fats. Hundreds of easy recipes take you from basic sauces and side dishes to weeknight stir-fries and company-worthy specialties. So forget the time and expensive of typical takeout--the healthiest and best-tasting Chinese food can come out of your kitchen!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440568206
Publisher:	Adams Media
Publication date:	10/04/2013
Series:	Everything® Cookbook Series
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	13 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Manyee Elaine Mar is a cook, recipe developer, and author. She grew up in a Chinese restaurant in Denver, where she learned to make everything from sauces to wontons to almond cookies. She has been a cooking class coordinator for Share Our Strength, pairing professional, high-end restaurant chefs and recipe developers with low-income participants. Mar is also the author of Paper Daughter, a memoir about growing up in a Chinese restaurant in Denver. Paper Daughter has been chosen as required first-year reading at various colleges, and continues to be taught in multicultural literature classes nationwide. Ms. Mar lives in Cambridge, MA.
An Adams Media author.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

1 Let's Get Started 9

2 Popular Chinese Sauces 25

3 Appetizers and Dim Sum 40

4 Soups and Salads 70

5 Rice and Noodles 94

6 Comfort Classics 129

7 Beef Dishes 149

8 Pork Entrees 173

9 Chicken, Turkey, and Duck Dishes 188

10 Fish and Other Seafood 221

11 Tofu 235

12 Chinese Vegetables 250

13 Desserts and Snacks 269

Appendix A Festival Foods 288

Appendix B Glossary of Asian Ingredients 291

Standard U.S./Metric Measurement Conversions 296

Index 297