CHINESE FOOD MADE EASY: 100 simple, healthy recipes from easy-to-find ingredients |
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Ching-He Huang
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Pages: 192 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0007264984
Pub: Harper
Pub date: 2008-07-07
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1
Reader Reviews:
Wok on Ching! (0/0 people found this helpful)
I've loved Chinese food since the first time I went to a restaurant as a kid and ordering from the takeaway was an expensive and unhealthy habit of mine at university. I always thought that recreating those flavours out of the restaurant environment was quite impossible - not so!
In this wonderful book, Ching takes the mystery out of delicious Chinese cooking. You're likely to have many of the ingredients in your kitchen already - garlic, root ginger, oil. By taking the illusions out of Chinese cooking she has made it all the more successful by easing us into the recipes - "Takeaway Favourites" is one chapter.
As for the recipes, there is something to appeal to everyone here. Here is a list of what I've made so far: Chicken Chow Mein, Beijing Rice, Mu Shu Chicken, Sweet and Sour Pork and Sichuan Orange Beef.
My only fault with the book would be for vegetarians. There doesn't seem to be much choice for them. Also some of the ingredients do prove a little difficult to get hold of if you don't live in a city.
Apart from those little faults - can we have some more please Ching?
Chinese Food Made Easy (0/4 people found this helpful)
God, I love that Chinese girl so much...I watched the first programme in the series and she was so damned hot I immediately ordered a takeaway. Suppose that defeated the object... oh well.
Singapore Style Noodles (9/17 people found this helpful)
We have made a number of dishes from this new publication, however, when it came to cooking the Singapore Style Noodles we found the recipe quantities to be incorrect. Specifically the amount of Tumeric reads as
1-2 Tablespoons and the amount of Vermicelli Noodles ( for 2 people) reads as 250grms/9oz.Having cooked the dish it became very apparent that these quantities are wrong. After research it would appear that the correct quantities should read 1-2 Teaspoons of Turmeric and half the quantity of Vermicelli Noodles. This needs correcting.
On a positive note the other recipes tried to date have been very successful and we have enjoyed them.
Quick and easy (9/9 people found this helpful)
I've been guilty of just slamming anything into the wok and see what it tastes like for quite some time so I thought I'd venture into asian cooking a little more.
First off, there are some tough ingredients to get (without substituting) but since they are used several times throughout it's easy enough to get them from a specialist online - I've used www.theasiancookshop.co.uk
From a cooking point of view, it's dead easy compared to european cooking and often much healthier too. There are recipes to suit 2 and also a few for entertaining guest too so I might have some fun with some friends around soon.
It really is easy. (3/3 people found this helpful)
Chinese Food Made Easy. It is a wonderful book wtth a wide variety of recipes, A person who has never cooked Chinese food could buy a wok and give it a go! Some ingredients have been a problem in a rural area but alternatives are suggested, Some of the recipes contain tofu but it ends up tasting mainly of the other flavours, delicious!!
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