Modern Asian Kitchen: Essential and Easy Recipes for Ramen, Dumplings, Dim Sum, Stir-Fries, Rice Bowls, Pho, Bibimbaps, and More
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By (author): Kat Lieu
Forbes
*As Featured in The New York Times*
The New Asian Cooking is bolder and more assertive, less fussy and more casual. With these easy-to-shop-for, quick-to-cook recipes, you can tryand will fall in love withthis trending style right in your own kitchen.
Heaped on big plates, Sichuan beef and broccoli and Indian chicken tikka masala are timeless comfort foods, to be sure, but theres a brand-new style of Asian cooking thats giving them a run for their money. Its more about grazing through small plates than sinking into one big one. Its more about pan-Asian fusionsthird culture foods, the cooking of the Asian diasporathan about each cultures oldest traditions. Its more plant-forward than meat-centered. Its irreverent and fun and incredibly delicious. And its all captured in Modern Asian Kitchen.
Kat Lieuthe blogger and online personality who presides over the Subtle Asian Baking corner of the enormously popular Subtle Asian Traits online community, and who is the author of Modern Asian Baking at Homeserves up more than 80 inventive recipes for:
- Vibrant vegetable dishes like Sichuan-style fish-fragrant eggplant and umami-packed braised shiitake mushrooms
- Quick noodle dishes for super-easy lunches
- Quick-fix matcha ramen bowls and simple miso soups
- Dim sum, with tricks and food hacks like rice-paper shrimp dumplings
- Street-food favorites like Taiwanese popcorn chicken in the air fryer
- Customizable bibimbap bowls for busy-weeknight dinners
- Southeast Asian favorites like cold-papaya salads, streaming hot phos, and spring rolls with surprising things inside and punchy chile-crisp coatings on the outside
The recipes also include:
- Umami-Packed Spiral Cucumber Salad
- Sumptuous Siu Mai and Easy Dim Sum
- Melty Cheesecake Bao
- Tonys Spicy Cumin Skewers
- Crispy Crackling Roast Pork
- Clay Pot Taiwanese Three-Cup Chicken
- Mapo Tofu and Veggies
- Pandan Tres Leches with a Kaya Drizzle
Whether you are cooking a family-style feast of a dozen exciting dishes for the sharing table, or you just want a simple and hearty one-bowl meal at the end of a busy workday (or a quick meal when you work from home), you will find a lifetime of tasty ideas in the pages of Modern Asian Kitchen. See more