The Complete Asian Cookbook

by Solomon, Charmaine

• ISBN13: 9780804837576
• ISBN10: 0804837570
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-15
• Publisher: Tuttle Pub

Summary

With over 800 recipes from 16 countries, Charmaine Solomon's The Complete Asian Cookbook is the perfect introduction to the food of Asia. Charmaine Solomon has tried and tested every recipe, ensuring that they are simple to prepare and that every ingredient and every preparation step are explained in easy-to-follow terms.This classic cookbook, in print for 30 years, ventures into culinary areas that are often overlooked: the sour-hot dishes of Thailand, the Nonya cooking of Singapore and Malaysia, the soul-warming hotpots of Korea; as well as excitingly different dishes from the lands of Burma, Laos and Cambodia.

Author Biography

Through newspapers, magazines, television, cooking schools, and over 25 books, Charmaine Solomon is one of the world's best known and respected cookery writers. Since The Complete Asian Cookbook was published in 1976, over a million copies have been sold, and it has been translated into German, French, and Dutch.

Table of Contents

Preface	8	(1)
Introduction	9	(1)
Eating for health	9	(1)
Rice	10	(1)
Coconut milk	11	(1)
Chillies -- handle with care	12	(1)
Know your onions	13	(1)
Cutting a chicken for curry	13	(1)
Cutting a chicken the Chinese way	13	(1)
Cutting fish steaks into serving pieces	13	(1)
How to prepare a pineapple for eating	13	(1)
Introduction to the Revised Edition	14	(3)
Guide to Weights & Measurements	17	(2)
India & Pakistan	19	(96)
Sri Lanka	115	(52)
Indonesia	167	(52)
Malaysia	219	(20)
Singapore	239	(24)
Burma	263	(29)
Thailand	292	(29)
Cambodia & Laos	321	(10)
Vietnam	331	(16)
The Philippines	347	(20)
China	367	(69)
Korea	436	(19)
Japan	455	(29)
Equivalents & Substitutes	484	(1)
Glossary	485	(17)
Index	502	(10)
Acknowledgements	512