Category Archives: asian food 亞洲烹調
Rice Ball
Rice Ball is a tradition food item which you can find in food cart on the street in Taiwan during breakfast hours.
It is a hardy, healthy and delicious choice for breakfast.
- 1 -1.5 cup of cooked short grain rice
- 2 tbsp of chopped scallion
- 2-3 tbsp of shredded pork
- 1 egg
- 3 tbsp of dry Daikon (optional; you can find this in Asian super market dry goods area)
- 1 sliced of sushi seaweed
- 2 tbsp of Crispy oriental noodle (Use in salad sometimes )
- some black sesame
- 1 piece of Plastic wrap (around 6X6)
- Fry the egg.
- Flatten warm rice on plastic wrap.
- Place seaweed first than egg, pork, scallion, noodle finally dry diakon in the center of the rice. Make sure the rice is bigger than all other ingredients.
- Both hands hold the plastic wrap. Fold the rice towards center until rice close together. Continue to squeeze and fold the rice until the rice is in a ball shape.
- Sprinkle sesame seeds on top of the rice.
- Enjoy your rice ball.
Okra Salad
- 3 cups of Okras
- 2 cups of Tofu
- 1 tbsp of chopped Cilantro
- 2-3 tbsp of soy paste
- some sriracha chili sauce
- 2-3 tbsp of katsuobushi (dry fish flakes)
- Clean and cut okras in half.
- Boil okras in water for 5 minutes.
- Rinse okras in cold water.
- Cut tofu into bit size.
- Place okra and tofu in plate.
- Top with cilantro and katsuobushi.
- Drizzle soy pasta and sriracha on top.
Naan Sandwich
This is a fun version of my sandwich. Easy, fast, delicious and fun.
- 1 piece of frozen naan
- 2 tbsp of hummus
- 1 tbsp of chopped green scallion
- some roast beef
- Bake naan at 375 degree oven for 5 minutes or until the bread softened.
- Spread hummus on naan.
- Sprinkle scallion.
- Finally place roast beef on top.
- Bake the sandwich for additional 10 minutes.
Thai Salad
Salad ingredients:
- 1 cup of shrimp
- some lettuce
- some carrots
- some cucumbers
- some rice vermicelli noodle
- some tofu
- some scallion
Sauce ingredients:
- 2 tbsp of sugarless peanut butter
- 1/2 tbsp of soy sauce
- 1 tbsp of rice vinegar
- 2 tbsp of lemon grass sauce
- 1/4 tbsp of sesame oil
- 1 tbsp of olive oil
- Wash all vegetables.
- Chop lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, scallion and tofu into bite size.
- Boil vermicelli and shrimp until cooked. Rinse the noodle in cold water.
- Mix all sauce ingredients together.
- Serve sauce on salad.
Cheese-less Thai Pizza
- 1 bag of store bought pizza dough
- some tofu
- some cooked shrimp
- some sliced mushroom
- some chopped green onion
- 2 tbsp of lemon grass sauce
- 2 tbsp of peanut butter
- 1 tbsp of soy sauce
- 1 tsp of sesame oil
- some olive oil
- Flatten the dough in a baking sheet. Brush some olive oil on the dough than bake it by following the direction on the package.
- 10 minutes before the dough is fully cooked. Take the dough out from oven.
- Mix lemon grass sauce, peanut butter, soy sauce and sesame oil together.
- Spread the mixture on top of pizza crust.
- Add tofu, shrimp, mushroom and green onion. If there are extra sauce, also spread it on top of the topping at this time.
- Bake for additional 15 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and all toppings are warm.
Asian Noodle Salad
Salad ingredients:
- 1 package of thick egg noodles
- some fresh ginger
- some scallions
- some cilantro
- some soy bean sprouts or bean sprouts
Sauce ingredients:
- 1 tbsp of soy sauce
- 1 tbsp os sesame oil
- 1 tbsp of rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp of black vinegar
- 1 tsp of sriracha sauce
- olive oil
- pepper and salt
- Boil noodles with some salt and olive oil.
- When noodles are cooked, add sprouts. Cook until the water is boiling again.
- Drain and rinse noodles and sprouts in cold water.
- Finely chop ginger, scallions, cilantro.
- Mix all sauce ingredients together with herbs.
- Mix sauce and noodles together.
- Add salt and pepper as needed.
Beef Stew Noodle Soup
Ingredients:
- Beef
- carrots
- diakons
- 1 cup of soy sauce
- 1 cup of cooking wine
- 2 tsp of sugar
- 1 tsp of sesame oil
- 1-2 star anise
- water
- some chopped cilantro
- Cook beef in boiled water for 15 minutes.
- Rinse beef in cold water.
- Mix soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar, sesame oil, star anise, and beef in another pot of boiled water.
- Cook the stew in low heat, cover with lid for 1 hour or until beef is tender.
- Cut carrots and diakons in bite size.
- Cook carrots and diakons with beef stew for additional 3o minutes.
- Add salt to season. Serve with noodle.
Seaweed salad
- 1 bag of seaweed
- some dry chili
- some sesame oil
- some white sesame
- some chopped cilantro
- some white vinegar
- Wash seaweed in cold water.
- Boil a pot of water, cook seaweed for 5 minutes.
- Drain seaweed and cut it into bite sized pieces.
- Mix dry chili, sesame oil, white sesame, cilantro and white vinegar with seaweed.
- Refrigerate until chill.
Seaweed Jelly salad
- 1 bag of seaweed jelly
- some thin sliced seedless cucumber
- some thin sliced carrot
- some chopped cilantro
- 1-2 tbsp of mayo
- some salt
- Mix everything together.
- Refrigerate until chilled.