Thai Recipe: Tom Yam or Hot-and-Sour Prawn Soup

Thai Recipe: Tom Yam or Hot-and-Sour Prawn Soup
from The Oriental Cookbook, 50 recipes with 50 color photos on 5 countries recipes 109 pages 6inch x 8 inch


Tom Yam or Hot-and-Sour Soup



Ingredients:

500g fresh king prawns
4 cups chicken stock or water
8 oz can straw mushrooms
3 lemon grass stalks bruise
10 kaffir lime leaves
3 tbsp fish sauce
1/2 cup lime juice
2 tbsp chopped spring unions
1 tbsp fresh coriander leaves
2 red chilies chopped

Method:
1. Clean and devein the prawns. Can boil the prawn shells as stock.
2. Can use chicken or prawn stock nd add lemon grass stalks and lime leaves and simmer for 10 min until fragrant.
3. Strain the stock and return to the saucepan and reheat.
4. Add the mushrooms, prawns and cook for 5 min until the prawns turn pink.
5. Add the fish sauce, lime juice, spring onion, coriander, chili and remaining lime leaves.
6. Serve hot.with white fragrant rice.

Serves 6
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 15 min

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Thai Recipe: Thai Pineapple Rice

Thai Recipe:  Thai Pineapple Rice
Recipe from The Oriental Cookbook, 50 color photos 5 countries recipes 109 pages 6inch x 8 inch ISBN: 981-04-7529-2


Thai Pineapple Rice

Ingredients:
1/2 pineapple
4 bowls cooked rice
1 pc Chinese sausage sliced/pork floss
100g peeled prawns
100g ham sliced
2 mushrooms sliced
1 tbsp sliced shallot
1 tbsp tumeric powder
2 tbsp cooking oil
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1/2 tsp salt
Pepper to taste

Method:
1. Brush clean under the water the pineapple husk. Cut the pineapple into half and scoop out the flesh and dice.
2. Peel the prawn, slice sausage, ham, mushroom, shallot and set aside.
3. Heat the frying pan and fry the shallot, sausage, prawn, ham, mushroom for 5 min until fragrant.
4. Add rice, diced pineapple, tumeric powder, salt, pepper and stir-fry till well mixed with some port floss and fry for another 5 min.
5. You can dish some of the fried rice into the hollowed pineapple or you can dish the rice on to the plate and garnish with pork floss and red chili.
6. Serve hot.

Serves 4
Preparation time: 15 min
Cooking time: 10 min

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The Oriental Cookbook

The Oriental Cookbook, 50 recipes with 50  color photos with 109 pages 6 inch x 8 inch on 5 countries recipes: Thai, Indonesia, North Indian, Philippines and Singapore.

You can easily follow the simple steps to make Thai Pineapple Rice, Tom Yam Soup, Curry Prawns and Ladies Fingers, Hainanese Chicken Rice or Chili Crab.  Eat the healthy way and immune yourself as shown below.

*  Broccoli lowers your blood pressure
*  Carrots release cancer-fighting betacarotene
*  Garlic reduces cholesterol levels, fight acute infections and eases
    circulatory problems.
*  Ginger fights germs and stimulate your blood circulation
*  Mushroom immune your body against sickness and disease
*  Drink green tea and its anti-oxidants will help detoxify free radicals,
    cancer-causing agents

Asian flavours and cooking techniques are illustrated in step-by-step method and shown in the photographs to ensure fantastic results everytime you cook in the comfort of your home.

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Snack: Chicken Drumsticks with Plum Sauce

Snack: Chicken Drumstick with Plum Sauce
Recipe from Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish Meal
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Chicken Drumsticks with
Plum Sauce

Ingredients:
12 chicken wings
2 beaten eggs
8 cream crackers crushed
Cucumber rounds
Pineapple rings
Soyabean oil for deep frying

Seasonings
2 tbsp Chinese rice wine
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp light soya sauce
Salt and pepper to taste

4 tbsp Plum Sauce

Method:

1. Wash and clean the chicken wings and cut at the joints.  Take the upper end and scrap the chicken meat until it forms a ball at the end.  Season all the drunsticks and the other parts of the wings for half an hour.

2. Heat the soyabean oil in the pan until smoking hot.  Roll the drumsticks in the beaten eggs and then in the crushed crackers.  Deep fry them for 10 min until golden brown.
3. Serve on round of cucumber and pineapple rings with the plum sauce.
4. Do the same method with the other end of the chicken wings.

Serves 2
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 10 min

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Recipe: Fried Lobster with Black Bean and Chili Sauce

Fried Lobster with Black Bean and Chili Sauce
Recipe from Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish-Meal



Fried Lobster with Black
Bean and Chili Sauce

Ingregients:
1 kilo lobster
1 tbsp sliced onion
1 tbsp chopped garlic
2 springs green onion
Coriander leaves

Seasonings:
2 tbsp brandy or Chinese rice wine
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp black bean sauce
1 tsp chili sauce
1/4 tsp salt
Pepper to taste

Method:
1. Scrub and wash clean the lobster and half it with a cleaver.
2. Put the lobster on a plate and steam for 10 minutes.
3. Scrap out the lobster meat and cut to small pieces.
4. Heat the soyabean oil and fry the onion garlic green onion for 3 minutes.  Add the black bean and chili sauce and fry until there is a rich aroma smell for 3 min.
5. Add the lobster pieces, wine, sesame oil and stir fry for 2 minutes.
6. Serve hot and garnish with coriender leaves and eat with fragrant white rice.

You will say "wow" most delicious!

Serves 4
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 8 min

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Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish-meal

Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish-meal, 30 recipes and 30 color photos, 71 pages 6" x 8" will give you Chinese food dating back to the Tang Dynasty when emperors were good connoisseurs of appetizing food and they reveled in banquets.  You can acquire the skills and knowledge to cook these delicacies yourself.  In this book you will find a number of such recipes to whet your appetite.

The recipes on snacks will help you to prpare quickly dishes for parties, gatherings or birthdays.  You may like to cook One-dish meal for a fast lunch or dinner and help to save time.

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Recipe: Fried Beef with Green Pepper and Pineapple

Another sample recipe from the Asian Chinese Cookbook
Fried Beef with Green Pepper and Pineapple

Ingredients:

250g beef

1 green pepper

1 slice of pineapple

1 tbsp sliced onion

1 tsp chopped garlic

2 slices ginger

Seasonings:

1 thsp oyster sauce

1 tbsp black soya sauce

1 tbsp Chinese rice wine

1 tsp sesame oil

1/4 tsp sugar

1/2 tsp cornstarch

1/4 tsp salt pepper

3 tbsp water

Method:

1. Wash clean the beef and slice against the grain and  marinate with the seasonings for half an hour.  Cut the green pepper, pineapple and slice the onion.

2. Heat the soya bean oil in the pan and fry the garlic onion ginger for 3 min.

3. Add the seasoned beef and fry for 5 min and pour the seasoning on the beef.

4. Stir fry the beef with the seasoning until it boils and dish to plate.

5. Add 1 tbsp oil to the pan and fry the green pepper, pineapple and add salt and pepper and fry for 5 min.

6. Pour the fried beef and stir fry with the vege for 1 min and pour to plate.
7. Serve hot with fragrant white rice.

Serves 4
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 8 min

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