Everyday Asian
Asian Flavors + Simple Techniques = 120 Mouthwatering Recipes
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Publisher Description
Patricia Yeo is one of the most acclaimed of the new crop of bright young chefs in America--she specializes in world food, introducing Asian flavors, California freshness and French technique to her restaurant menus, including the offerings at the three-star A/Z in Manhattan. With Everyday Asian, Yeo leaves restaurant technique behind and focuses on packing flavor into dishes for weekday meals and simple home entertaining. The taste of the Pacific Rim is still the biggest trend in food today, and Yeo is the ideal expert to translate it for home cooks. Everyday Asian includes over one hundred recipes with far eastern, Indian and southeast Asian accents, including:
--Chinese chicken salad with pickled vegetables
--Seared tuna and three-bean salad
--Toasted Walnut, Cheese and Chili Shortbread
--Smoky eggplant and yogurt puree
--Gingered Pineapple Glaze for Buffalo wings
--Roasted five-spice chicken
--Thai pork curry
--Stir-fried beef with black beans
--Baked coconut rice pudding
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The only complaint one could credibly lodge against this slender cookbook is that, despite the title, many of the recipes seem less Asian and more pan-global: a little Italian here, some convincing Southern there. Still, it's hard to grumble about a book whose recipes are so easy, quirky and delicious. There's nothing particularly Asian about Toasted Walnuts, Cheese, and Chili Shortbread, but the combination of nuts and cheese is addictive, and the hint of heat intoxicating. Meatballs and Yogurt Sauce are messy, decadent party food, as are Lamb and Potato Samosas. Yeo, the executive chef at New York City's Sapa, is unafraid of shortcuts; she recommends buying a whole roast duck to use in her tasty Easy Red Duck Curry. She also devotes a big chunk of this book to marinades, relishes, chutneys and the like-simple ways to perk up even the plainest chicken breast or fish filet. The dessert selection is a little thin, but it includes a few winners, especially the deceptively straightforward Chocolate, Hazelnut, and Honey Semifreddo. True, you're unlikely to find these dishes at your corner Chinese take-out joint, but that doesn't make them any less fun to prepare, or exciting to eat.
