When talking about Asian cuisine, they mean a generalized concept that includes the cuisines of countries such as Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, as well as all the countries of Central Asia. That is, it is not even so much a geographical location as the belonging of local residents to a particular race. And, let's say, Afghan cuisine is not considered Asian, but rather Arabic. And Turkish will be eastern.

The five most commonly used ingredients in Asian recipes are:

A huge number of Asian cuisine recipes differ from each other in many ways. For example, the Japanese tends to be more balanced, low in fat, rich in fish and rice. And the Kazakh, on the contrary, loves hearty, fatty dishes with a lot of meat: beef, lamb, etc. In Muslim countries, there are no recipes with pork - there this meat is considered dirty. But the Chinese actively use this product in their dishes.

This means that there are no certain landmarks by which an Asian dish can be distinguished. It will be necessary to talk about the culinary preferences of a particular country. Spicy spices are loved in Thai and Korean cuisines - the same can be said about Chinese. In Japan, they love rice - they cook not only first and second courses with it, but also desserts and alcoholic drinks.

Perhaps we can say that Asian cuisine has a weakness for thick soups: they are eaten in all the countries listed. Only in each of them they are called differently: lagman, romen, tom yam, danhuatang, kugigugse, pho. And many first courses include certain noodles: somewhere homemade, wide and flat, somewhere rice or egg, round, glass.

Five of the fastest Asian food recipes:

An incomplete list of countries (republics, regions), whose cuisines are usually classified as generalized Asian:

Afghanistan, Buryatia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Tibet, Tuva, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; Hong Kong, China, Korea, Macau, Manchuria, Taiwan, Japan; Burma, Brunei, Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines; Bhutan, Nepal.

Asian cuisine no longer seems to be something distant and unusual. Dishes of this cuisine can be tasted in numerous restaurants or even cooked at home. Knowing certain tricks and subtleties, any housewife will cope with them.

Chinese Egg Rice

This Chinese dish has a very original and interesting taste. It is perfect for a hearty lunch or dinner.

Ingredients:
150 g rice
3 eggs
2 garlic cloves
5 onions
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
125 g green peas
1 st. l. soy sauce
salt
Boil rice for 10-12 minutes. It should be almost ready, but not quite soft. Drain and rinse the rice under cold water. Put the eggs in the pan. Whisk a little and put on a small fire. Heat, stirring, until slightly set. Heat oil in a large wok or deep skillet. Add crushed garlic, finely chopped onion, boiled peas and fry, stirring, 1-2 minutes. Add rice to wok, stir. Add eggs, soy sauce and a pinch of salt. Stir. Arrange on plates and serve.

Asian noodle and shrimp salad

This salad is a great solution for the case when there is no time to cook, but you want to have a delicious lunch.


Ingredients:
600 g thin noodles
1 kg shrimp (cooked)
1 bunch radish
1 bunch basil
150 ml sweet soy sauce
salt pepper
olive oil
Place the noodles in a heatproof bowl. Pour boiling water, salt, pepper and leave for 5 minutes or until tender.
Transfer the noodles to a large bowl. Add shrimp, chopped radish, basil, a little olive oil and mix gently.
Divide salad among bowls. Drizzle with soy sauce and serve immediately.

Soup with pork and egg noodles

Asian soups have a wonderful rich taste. The main thing is to buy all the ingredients in advance and strictly follow the recipe.


Ingredients:
1 st. l. vegetable oil
250 g pork
8 stalks green onion grated ginger root
6 cups chicken broth
120 g egg noodles
1 st. l. soy sauce
1 carrot
2 radishes
1/2 cup cilantro
2 eggs
salt, ground black pepper
Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Season the pork with salt and pepper. Fry the pork in a skillet until cooked through. Boil the egg noodles according to package directions until almost done.
Add the chopped onion and ginger to the pan. Cook, stirring, until soft, 1-2 minutes.
Pour in the broth and bring to a boil. Add the noodles and cook, stirring, until soft, 2-3 minutes.
Add soy sauce.
Mix stock and noodles with pork, carrots, chopped radish and sliced ​​hard-boiled egg. Ladle into bowls and serve.

Rolls "Philadelphia"

Make rolls at home. First, it's not that hard. And secondly, very fun and interesting. Invite your friends over and cook this popular Japanese dish together. It's really close.


Ingredients:
200 g sushi rice
1 sheet nori seaweed
150 g salmon
20 ml rice vinegar
150 g Philadelphia cheese
1 cucumber
Boil the rice as directed on the package. When removed from heat, transfer it to a bowl and cover with vinegar. Take a bamboo mat and wrap it with cling film. Place a sheet of nori on top (rough side up). Spread rice on top of the nori sheet (2/3 from the surface of the sheet). Cover the rice with a mat and turn over. Rice should be at the bottom. Put cream cheese in the center of the nori sheet. Cut the cucumber into 4 parts along. Put the cucumber next to the cheese. Roll the roll with a mat. Cut the salmon into thin slices and place close to each other on the roll. Cover with a mat again. Cut the roll with a sharp knife dipped in water into 6-8 pieces. Place on a plate and serve.

Funchoza with chicken and vegetables

By itself, funchose is not so satisfying. But if you add chicken and vegetables to it, you can have a very tasty and satisfying lunch.


Ingredients:
500 g chicken fillet
200 g funchose
400 g green beans
2 onions
1 carrot
1 bell pepper
50 ml rice vinegar
50 ml soy sauce
salt, ground black pepper
1 garlic clove
Cut the chicken fillet into long slices. Fry over high heat. Add spices and onion, cut into half rings. Fry until golden brown. Prepare the funchose following the instructions on the package.
Bulgarian pepper cut into strips.
Grate carrots on a coarse grater.
Boil string beans.
Fry green beans, carrots, peppers until tender, adding spices and crushed garlic.
Mix cooked chicken with onions, funchose and vegetables in a large bowl. Season with rice vinegar and soy sauce.
Let it brew for 1 hour. The dish can be consumed both warm and cold.

Spicy pork with soba noodles

A very appetizing dish that is impossible to refuse. If you are throwing an Asian style party, this is exactly what you need.


Ingredients:
240 g soba noodles
550 g pork
salt, ground black pepper
1 st. l. vegetable oil
1/2 cucumber
2 stalks of green onions
1 red chili
2 tbsp. l. rice vinegar
2 tsp sesame oil
Cook the soba noodles according to package directions. Season the pork with salt and pepper. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Fry the sliced ​​pork until tender, stirring constantly.
Mix pork with noodles. Add chopped cucumbers, chopped onions, chopped chili peppers.
Season the dish with vinegar and sesame oil. Salt. Arrange the dish on plates and serve.

Rice with pineapple and sweet pepper

Rice reveals itself in a new way when cooked with unusual ingredients. In Asian countries, they are very fond of adding pineapples and sweet peppers to rice. It turns out very juicy and tasty!


Ingredients:
200 g brown rice
1 can of pineapple
1 bell pepper
1 onion
3 garlic cloves
1 st. l. olive oil
ginger root
3 art. l. soy sauce
2 tbsp. l. sesame oil
1 st. l. sesame seeds
green onion feathers salt, pepper
Boil rice in salted water.
In a skillet heated over medium heat with olive oil, fry the peeled and finely chopped onion, garlic and ginger for 3 minutes until the onion is translucent.
Add diced peppers and fry for another 3-5 minutes, then put boiled rice and pineapple in the pan.
Add soy sauce and sesame oil, salt and pepper and mix thoroughly. Serve hot, sprinkled with sesame seeds and chopped green onions.

Chicken Breasts with Honey and Sesame

Honey and sesame seeds are a great addition to chicken. Such bold combinations can often be found in Asian cuisine.


Ingredients:
500 g chicken breasts
4 tbsp. l. soy sauce
2 tbsp. l. honey
vegetable oil
4 garlic cloves
ground black pepper
curry
ground ginger
Rinse the chicken breasts thoroughly, cut into portions. Salt, season with pepper, ginger and curry. Add soy sauce.
Squeeze out the garlic with a garlic press. Add to breasts.
Thoroughly mix the breasts with all the seasonings, leave to marinate for 1 hour.
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and add honey. Wait until the honey has melted, and gently mix it with vegetable oil so that it is distributed throughout the pan.
Put the chicken breasts in a pan and fry over low heat until golden brown on both sides. In the final, sprinkle with a handful of sesame seeds, mix. Remove from heat after a couple of minutes.

Spring rolls

Spring rolls are not only a cool snack, but also a complete meal. It all depends on the filling you choose.


Ingredients:
30 g carrots
30 g leek
50 g cucumber
12 g garlic
5 g ginger root
cilantro
ground white pepper
30 g soy sprouts
30 g shiitake mushrooms
30 g oyster mushrooms
thai sweet sauce
white rice vinegar
Sesame oil
soy sauce
20 g rice glass noodles
1 sheet of spring roll dough
100 g chicken broth
1 egg
200 g pork neck
200 ml vegetable oil


Cooking method:
Scroll the meat through a meat grinder.
Crush, peel the garlic and divide it into 3 parts: finely chop the first part, cut the second into slices, and grind the third into a paste.
Finely chop the leeks, mushrooms and soy sprouts. Chop carrots and cucumbers into thin strips, peel and finely chop the ginger.


Pour boiling water over the noodles for 8 minutes (do not boil the noodles), then drain the water, and finely chop the noodles and cilantro.


In a skillet, heat half the sesame seeds and 2 tbsp. l. sunflower oil. Fry the minced meat over high heat for 1 minute, add a clove of finely chopped garlic, leeks, carrots and mushrooms.
Fry over medium heat for 3 minutes, then add half of the broth, soy sauce and simmer for another 5 minutes until the broth has evaporated.


For the sauce, combine the rice vinegar, remaining broth, Thai sauce, diced garlic, and minced ginger.


Combine minced meat, noodles, cilantro, minced garlic, soy sprouts and cucumber in a bowl, add ground white pepper and remaining sesame oil.


Lightly beat the egg with a fork. Spread out a sheet of dough, lay out the filling, roll it into a roll, grease the edges with an egg.
Heat 200 ml of sunflower oil in a saucepan.
Using a spoon, lower the spring roll into the oil - if it begins to brown, then the oil has reached the right temperature.
Fry spring rolls in oil for 1 minute.


Put the rolls on a plate, serve with sauce.

Noodles with shrimps and vegetables

Noodles go great with seafood. Keep in mind that the vegetables should remain slightly crunchy. You shouldn't overcook them.


Ingredients:
300 g noodles
300 g peeled shrimp
1 sweet red pepper
1 sweet green pepper
1 sweet yellow pepper
2 carrots
1 onion
2 tbsp. l. soy sauce
2 tbsp. l. sesame or olive oil
Boil the noodles.
Cut onion and pepper into small cubes. Carrot cut into strips no more than 5 mm in thickness.
Fry the vegetables over high heat in a frying pan heated with sesame oil for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
Add shrimp and fry for 2 more minutes.
Then add the noodles and soy sauce and fry for another 2-3 minutes while stirring constantly.

Pickled carrots with daikon

Pickled carrots with daikon are a great way to diversify your diet.


Ingredients:
1 glass of water
1/4 cup vinegar
2 tbsp. l. Sahara
2 tsp salt
250 g carrots
250 g daikon
Cut carrots and daikon into thin strips.
Put water on fire and heat until warm.
Mix water with vinegar, sugar and salt. Mix well until the sugar is completely dissolved. Take several jars. Fill them with daikon carrots.
Pour the marinade over the contents. Close the jars tightly with lids and let it brew.

tom yum kung

To appreciate the Thai flavor, it is not at all necessary to go to another country. Just cook this national soup.


Ingredients:
300 ml coconut milk
300 ml fish broth
5 lemongrass leaves
5 leaves kaffir lime root ginger
1 chili pepper
10 shrimp
cilantro
4 shiitake mushrooms
1 st. l. fish sauce
1/2 tsp brown sugar
3 garlic cloves
1 st. l. vegetable oil
1/2 tsp sesame oil
1 lime
Boil the shiitake and shrimp until tender. Cut the lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves, garlic, pepper and ginger very finely.
Fry garlic and pepper in hot vegetable and sesame oil for 1 minute. Then crush them with a mortar.
Pour coconut milk and broth into a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Dip the lemongrass, ginger and kaffir lime leaves into the soup.
Then add the garlic-pepper mixture and cook for 1-2 minutes.
Pour in the fish sauce. Add chopped mushrooms and cook for 2 more minutes.
Add lime juice and sugar. Stir gently. Put the shrimp into the soup, remove the soup from the heat.
Sprinkle with chopped cilantro before serving.

Vietnamese fish

Fish is an essential ingredient in Asian cuisine. You can cook it in completely different ways.


Ingredients:
450 g white fish fillet
2 garlic cloves
3–4 pcs. shallots
3 stalks lemongrass
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp grated ginger root
1/2 tsp chilisol powder, ground black pepper
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
1 st. l. soy sauce
cilantro or green onion
Grind together garlic, shallots, lemongrass, turmeric, ginger, chili powder, salt and pepper. Gradually pour in the oil.
Rinse the fish and cut into medium pieces. Marinate and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
Then put the fish on the foil. Place in the oven for 15-20 minutes or cook on a preheated grill over medium heat for 10-15 minutes.
Before serving, drizzle the fish with soy sauce and garnish with cilantro or green onions.

Beef with basil

Thai style beef is usually served with rice. Aromatic basil adds a special taste to this dish.


This recipe is for 2 servings.
Ingredients:
240 g beef tenderloin
15 g lemongrass
1 lime
1 garlic clove
cilantro
green onion
1 chili pepper
basil
10 g oyster sauce
25 g fish sauce
10 g soy sauce
100 g chicken broth
cane sugar
10 g cornstarch
160 g jasmine rice
olive oil


Cooking method:
Pour rice with cold water in a ratio of 1/1.5, bring to a boil, cover and cook over moderate heat until the water has completely evaporated (6-7 minutes).


Crush and coarsely chop the lemongrass. Cut the beef into thin slices and marinate with lemongrass, soy sauce and 1/2 starch, mix.


Peel, crush and finely chop the garlic, mash it to a paste. Cut and finely chop 2 thin sheets of chili pepper, mix with garlic. Add the fish sauce, 1/4 lime juice and sugar to the garlic paste.


Coarsely chop the green onion. Dissolve remaining starch in chicken broth.


Remove the lemongrass and fry the beef over high heat in olive oil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly, pour in the sauce and starch, add the oyster sauce, bring to a boil.


Add onion and basil, stir and remove from heat.


Arrange the beef and vegetables on the rice, sprinkle with finely chopped cilantro and serve.

Bananas in batter

In Chinese cuisine, there is a dessert popular all over the world - battered bananas. Rice flour is traditionally used in this dish. This makes the dough very soft.


Ingredients:
3 medium bananas
100 g rice flour
50 g powdered sugar
100 ml carbonated mineral water
2 tbsp. l. peanut butter
Pour the flour into a deep bowl, slowly add sparkling water and knead the dough, resembling low-fat sour cream in consistency. Peel bananas, cut either lengthwise in half or across into 3 parts. Dipping bananas in batter, fry in hot peanut butter for several minutes on each side until golden brown. Sprinkle fried bananas with powdered sugar.

Our article will introduce you closer to Asian cuisine, as well as teach you how to cook simple and delicious oriental dishes.

• Recently, Asian and Oriental dishes have become more popular. Chefs love them for their speed and ease of preparation. Ordinary people like their original taste and memorable aroma.
• Each person finds something of his own in these exotic dishes. Plant food lovers can cook dishes with a lot of lightly steamed vegetables, people watching their figure can eat rice with turkey or glass noodles with seafood
• Most importantly, do not be afraid to try something new and believe me, Asian cuisine will definitely surprise you. If you still have not met this exotic cuisine, then we offer you some simple recipes that will help you surprise your family and friends.

Asian and Oriental products

tofu cheese

• Probably, every person knows that it is almost impossible to cook an Asian dish from the products we are used to. And it's not about the spices.
• Indeed, for example, there is nothing to replace such a component as soy sauce. Therefore, if we do not put it in a marinade or in a savory dressing, then our food will not taste the same at all.
• For this reason, it is still better not to look for a replacement for oriental products, but to use them for cooking. Moreover, you can now buy them without even leaving your home. All you have to do is place your order online and wait for delivery.

Most Popular Products:
rice for sushi
Seaweed
Sesame oil
Shiitake mushrooms
tufu cheese
Rice vinegar and paper
pickled ginger
Coconut oil
Tempura flour
Japanese noodles
Wasabi

Asian and Oriental Cuisine - Recipe

Chinese cabbage soup with chicken

Oriental cuisine is very different from ours. The food there is prepared very quickly and most often it is fried. Minimal heat treatment makes it possible to save almost all useful vitamins and give the finished dish a more piquant and fresh taste.

Therefore, if you want to cook a completely identical dish, then strictly adhere to all the cooking rules.

Asian cabbage soup recipe:
First, cook the broth from meat or fish
While the meat is cooking, fry the bell pepper, onion and oyster mushrooms in sesame oil
Cut the Chinese cabbage into long strips and put it in the broth
Leave everything to boil for literally 2-3 minutes
Then add fried vegetables and hot peppers to the soup.
Boil for another 2 minutes and you are ready to eat.

Peanut Butter Chicken Recipe:
Boil rice noodles
Pour oil into a frying pan and put hot peppers, wheat germ and green onions in it for literally one minute
Next, move on to frying the pieces of meat.
Then mix soy and hot sauce, peanut butter and finely chopped ginger in a saucepan
Add noodles, meat and vegetables to the mixture.
Mix everything thoroughly and arrange on plates.

Asian Soup Recipes

Soup with coconut milk

Asian-style soups have a rather interesting and special taste. Due to the fact that quite a lot of ingredients are used for their preparation, they always emit a wonderful aroma.

Most often, they add meat (you can replace it with fish and seafood), rice or noodles, aromatic spices, hot peppers, fresh vegetables, and, of course, wheat germ. As a result, the dish is not only tasty, but also very colorful.

Recipe for Thai Tom Kha Soup:
Heat up the wok and pour in the sesame oil
At the next stage, add pre-chopped chili peppers and lemongrass to the oil.
When the oil is saturated with the aromas of spices, pour coconut milk into it and add lime leaves to the resulting mixture.
Let the soup boil a little and dip small pieces of meat into the broth.
When the meat is cooked, add salt, pepper and fish sauce to the soup and pour everything into bowls.

Recipe for Asian fish soup with coconut milk:
First, wash, cut and cut the fish into pieces.
Heat the coconut milk in a saucepan and season it with hot spices
When the milk boils, we begin to lower the fish and chopped ginger into it.
While the soup comes to readiness in a separate pan, boil the rice noodles
After all the components of the soup are ready, you can proceed to the presentation of the dish.
To start, put a small portion of noodles in a bowl
Then fill everything with fish soup and drizzle with peanut butter

Asian cuisine salads

Asian Grapefruit Chicken Salad

This salad can be both a hearty snack and a great addition to steamed rice or vegetables in sweet and sour sauce.

If desired, you can use it for a light snack at work. A small portion of salad will help you quickly get enough and forget about the feeling of hunger for a long time.

Oriental Chicken Salad Recipe:
Boil the chicken fillet, cool it a little and cut into small cubes
Peel half of the grapefruit from the films and cut in the same way as the meat
Grind hot pepper, mint leaves and ginger root
Squeeze lime and grapefruit juice into a separate bowl
Salt it, pepper it, sprinkle with sesame oil
Arrange the meat, mint leaves, ginger, grapefruit, and hot peppers in the center of the plate and drizzle with the light dressing.

Asian sauces

Sweet and sour sauce

Some people think that only two sauces are used in Asian cuisine, soy sauce and fish sauce. Of course, in most cases, they are taken for marinating meat, fish and for preparing various dressings.

But if you start getting acquainted with oriental cuisine a little closer, you can learn about the existence of other, no less tasty and original sauces. With the recipe of one of them, we will introduce you now.

The recipe for sweet and sour sauce is yin and yang.
Pour the rice bite into the saucepan and heat it up a little
Then add soy sauce and grated chili peppers to it.
When the mixture boils a little, put a couple of spoons of any fruit jam in it
Sweat the sauce for another 5 minutes and let it brew

Asian food menu

Spicy Pickled Chinese Cabbage

Asian dishes differ from those more familiar to us not by an exotic combination of ingredients, but by an abundance of spices and soy products. Another difference is that they almost never use such familiar potatoes to cook their dishes.

For example, in soups they most often put rice noodles, meat and a variety of vegetables. As a result, they get a rather thick soup, which can be both the first and second course.

List of the most popular Asian dishes:
ramen
Pork in sweet and sour sauce
Spicy Pickled Chinese Cabbage
Pork stew with star anise
Rice noodles with beef
Spring rolls with shrimps and pork
Chinese puff pancakes

Oriental cuisine menu

Panchani

Oriental cuisine is practically no different from Asian. They also like spices, hot sauce, wheat germ and lightly steamed vegetables. Its only difference is the complete absence of liquid dishes, that is, soups and borscht familiar to us.

But this does not mean that people go exclusively to main courses, they just cook soups a little differently than we do. Their broth is more like a thick and nutritious gravy, which slightly covers the vegetables and meat. This is due to the fact that oriental housewives are very fond of thickening it with starch.

The most popular oriental dishes:
Bulgogi
Kichmi from radish
Kalbi
teokbokki
Kuksi soup
Heh from zucchini
Panchani

Oriental cuisine: meat dishes

Chicken skewers in soy sauce

Oriental cuisine involves the use of lamb, beef, chicken and very rarely pork. But unlike us, people living in the east do not like to grind meat into minced meat. They believe that in this way, all the taste qualities of the product are killed. Therefore, they try to bake it whole or cut it into small pieces.

Oriental meat dishes:
Lamb shish kebab with vegetables
Lagman with beef
Chicken skewers in soy sauce
Heh meat
Pork ribs in Korean

Oriental soups

Oriental lamb soup

If you want to surprise your household, then cook for them a delicious and fragrant oriental lamb soup. It requires a minimum set of products and approximately 1 hour of time to prepare it.

If you want to make this dish more festive, then decorate it with fresh herbs and chili peppers. Serve this soup with freshly baked tortillas.

So:
Boil the celery and onion broth
Add to it, cut into pieces of meat
When the meat is cooked until half cooked, put the rice in the pan
Next, beat the egg, yogurt, lemon juice, salt and pepper
Pour the mixture into the boiling soup in a thin stream and let it come to readiness.

Oriental salad recipe

Spicy vegetable salad

If unexpected guests decide to come to you, and you have nothing to treat them with, then try to cook a simple but original salad of oriental cuisine. By itself, it consists of products familiar to us, only the mayonnaise dressing we are used to will have to be replaced with a lighter and more useful one.

Spicy Vegetable Salad Recipe:
Take any salad mixture, tear into pieces and arrange on a beautiful dish
Cut cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and ginger into strips
Arrange the prepared vegetables on the salad mix.
Prepare dressing from vegetable oil, salt, pepper, garlic and lemon juice
Drizzle dressing over salad and serve

Southeast Asian cuisine

Indonesian fish

The main highlight of the southeastern cuisine, of course, is seafood. Local chefs complement them with seaweed, exotic spices, juicy vegetables and edible flowers.

Very often, travelers, having seen such a still life, are afraid to try it. And they do it, of course, in vain. After all, usually fresh seafood is used to prepare these dishes, which are able to saturate the body with useful substances.

Indonesian Fish Recipe:
Fry onion, lemongrass, banana in vegetable oil and add pre-boiled and washed rice to it
Cut the fish into large pieces and marinate it in pepper, salt and lemon juice.
Dip the fish first in cream and then in flour and fry in plenty of oil
Put rice with banana on a plate, and fish on top of it
Any hot sauce can be served with the dish.

Eastern European cuisine

Meat - in Moldavian "Three shepherds"

Eastern European cuisine includes Georgian, Armenian, Bulgarian and Moldavian cuisine. Although the dishes of these regions are close and familiar to us, among them there are also those that can surprise us with something new.

As a rule, for cooking, the inhabitants of these regions use the same products as we do with only one difference, in Eastern European countries they don’t really like to marinate fish and meat in liquid marinades.

Meat recipe - in Moldavian "Three shepherds":
Marinate chicken, pork and beef fillets in dry spices
After 1.5 hours, beat each piece separately and cut them into strips 2 cm wide
Next, alternating each type of meat, we begin to twist it clockwise
We chop the workpiece with bamboo sticks
Bake the meat in the oven, periodically sprinkling it with wine

Uzbek oriental cuisine

Uzbek pilaf

Meat dishes are a characteristic feature of Uzbek cuisine. Uzbeks love meat and know how to cook it properly. And most often they do not eat it in, for example, in a baked form. Usually they stew it with vegetables, put it in pies or make the most tender manti with it.

But the main pride of this region, of course, is. Unlike us, they put a lot of meat, carrots and spicy spices in it, in short, they do everything to make the flavor of the dish amazing.

Uzbek pilaf recipe:
We heat the oil in a cauldron and put chopped onions and carrots into it
When the vegetables are browned, add pieces of meat to them (ideally, it should be lamb)
As soon as you notice that the tips of the carrots are darkening, immediately add half a liter of water, salt, zira and barberry to the cauldron
Send everything to languish for 40 minutes
At this time, pour boiling water over the rice and let it swell a little.
Then we add rice to the cauldron, put 5-7 cloves of garlic on top of it and close everything with a lid
In 15 minutes the pilaf will be ready.

Oriental sweets

honey baklava

Oriental sweets are liked by almost all sweet tooth. The main highlight of these sweets are a variety of spices and spices. This allows confectioners to create culinary masterpieces like no other in the world.

In these countries there are more than 200 types of different sweets. Moreover, in each region they prepare some one specific. This is usually done by trained people (kandalatches) and on special equipment.

Honey baklava recipe:
Take flour, eggs, salt and milk and knead a soft dough
Divide it into 5 equal parts and swing them as thin as possible
Lubricate each layer with oil, roll up with a snail and send for half an hour in the refrigerator
While the dough reaches the desired consistency, chop the nuts
Take the dough out of the fridge and roll out thin again.
We put the first layer of dough in the mold and sprinkle it with chopped nuts
Repeat the process three more times
We roll out the last piece, lay it on nuts and cut the workpiece into rhombuses
Put the baklava in the oven for about 30 minutes
While it is baking from honey and water, we are preparing fragrant syrup.
Pour the finished baklava with syrup and let it soak well

Video: Asian Lemon Cheesecake

This article will focus on Asian cuisine, which combines the cuisines of Southeast, South and East Asia. Recipes for such dishes have their own characteristics and differ from the usual food for us. In addition, Asian cuisine recipes use traditional products of the region.

Features of Asian cuisine

Asian cuisine recipes are distinguished by the use of a large amount of spices, legumes and rice. Fruits are also actively used. It is worth noting that the recipes of Asian cuisine are incredibly diverse, which is logical, because they are represented by the cuisines of Uzbeks, Chinese, Thais, Indians and other peoples. Despite the fact that such food is not familiar to us, recently such dishes have become increasingly popular. You can try them in themed restaurants. If you had something to your taste, then some Asian cuisine recipes can be brought to life in your own kitchen.

A feature of Asian dishes is the richness of flavors and aromas. And at the same time, all dishes are incredibly light. Europeans met them not so long ago, but people have already managed to fall in love with unusual food. For cooking, Asians actively use sauces: soy, fish and many others. Also used as additives were wasabi, ginger, chili seasoning, coconut milk, tofu cheese, curry paste and seaweed. Asian dishes are not only sauces, but also spices. Each country prefers its favorite favorites. Without an abundance of spices, it is simply impossible to imagine any Asian dish.

Rice with egg

If you want to use Asian cuisine recipes at home, then you should choose the simplest ones first. Easy to prepare is a dish such as rice with an egg. It would seem that unusual in such food? But in fact, the dish is traditional for. Such food is very hearty and tasty, so it can be a good lunch or dinner.

For cooking, take eggs (3 pcs.), Rice (170 g), garlic (two cloves), green onions, green peas (140 g), vegetable oil (two tablespoons), a spoonful of soy sauce, salt.

For the dish, you need to boil rice. The process takes approximately ten minutes. As a result, rice should be almost ready. The liquid is drained from it and washed well in running water. Boil the eggs in a separate saucepan. In the meantime, put a wok on fire, pour oil into it and fry garlic, onion, peas over low heat for several minutes. Next, put rice and chopped eggs in the wok, mix the ingredients. The finished dish can be sprinkled with green onions.

Salad with shrimp and noodles

Shrimp noodle salad is perfect for bringing Asian recipes to life at home. It is prepared not only simply, but also quickly. We will need: thin noodles (630 g), a bunch of radishes, fresh basil, a kilogram of ready-made shrimp, soy sauce, pepper and salt, olive oil.

We put the noodles in a heat-resistant container and pour boiling water over it, not forgetting to add salt and pepper. Leave it for five minutes, then transfer it to a salad bowl. There we add chopped radish, basil, peeled shrimp. Dress the salad with olive oil and mix. Next, lay it out on plates and be sure to pour soy sauce.

Soup with egg noodles

If you want to try it, you should cook Asian cuisine soup. There are many recipes for first courses. We offer one of the easiest to perform. All have a wonderful and rich taste, which is why they are so popular. You can cook soup with egg noodles and pork at home, but before that you should purchase all the necessary products: pork (270 g), green onions, salt, pepper, vegetable oil (tablespoon), grated ginger (1 cm), noodles egg (140 g), chicken broth (5-6 glasses), one grated carrot, soy sauce (a tablespoon), cilantro (to taste), radish (2 pcs.), Two eggs.

In a large frying pan, heat the oil and fry the pork, adding salt and pepper. In the meantime, boil the egg noodles in a saucepan until cooked, focusing on the instructions on the package. In a frying pan, fry the grated ginger and chopped onion in oil. We simmer the components on fire for just a couple of minutes. Next, in a saucepan, mix the prepared ingredients: noodles, pork, chopped radish, grated carrots, chopped eggs. Pour the ingredients with chicken broth and send to the fire. The soup should boil after boiling for only two to three minutes. Next, add soy sauce and serve the dish on the table.

Rolls "Philadelphia"

Rolls are one of the most famous Asian dishes. There are many recipes for their preparation, each of them is good in its own way. The simplest of them can be tested in your kitchen. For cooking, we will purchase: nori seaweed (1 pc.), Sushi rice (210 g), salmon (160 g), rice vinegar (20 ml), cream cheese called Philadelphia (170 g), one cucumber.

Rice for rolls must be prepared in accordance with the instructions on the package. After the rice is ready, it must be transferred to a container and poured with vinegar. Bamboo mats are needed to make rolls. They are wrapped in cling film, and a sheet of nori is laid on top so that its rough side is on top. Put the finished rice on top of the sheet, and put the cheese and pieces of cucumber in the center. Next, roll the roll with a rug. Next, cut the roll with a wet knife into eight parts. Thinly sliced ​​salmon is laid between the cut parts. And you can also put the fish inside.

Salad with funchose

Many Asian dishes (recipes are given in the article) are prepared on the basis of glass noodles. Funchoza is made from mung bean starch and has almost no pronounced taste, so it is actively used for salads. To prepare the dish, we will purchase: glass noodles (220 g), green beans (350 g), two onions, chicken fillet (520 g), one pepper and carrot each, soy sauce (40 ml), rice vinegar (40 ml), clove garlic, salt, black pepper.

Chicken fillet for salad must be cut into thin slices, which are fried over high heat. Add the onion and spices to the pan as well. Fry the ingredients until golden brown.

Funzoza is prepared quite simply. You must strictly follow the instructions on the package. Cut the bell pepper into strips, and chop the carrots on a grater. Boil string beans until tender. Next, fry it in a pan with bell pepper and carrots, adding garlic and spices. In a large bowl, mix glass noodles, chicken with onions and vegetables. Mix all the ingredients and season with soy sauce and rice vinegar. It is advisable to let the dish brew for about an hour. Such food can be served warm or cold.

What are the best recipes for Asian cuisine? Glass noodle salads are very nutritious and low in calories. They can be consumed even by those people who cannot tolerate gluten. Due to the fact that funchose does not have a pronounced taste, it is used to prepare all kinds of soups and salads.

Meat with soba noodles

In traditional Japanese cuisine, soba noodles are widely used, which are made on the basis of buckwheat flour. The existence of such a product has been known since the sixteenth century. The best Asian cuisine recipes are based on the use of different ingredients, including soba. We offer to cook a fairly simple dish - pork with soba. To do this, prepare: pork (490 g), salt, soba noodles (230 g), vegetable oil, black pepper, half of one cucumber, green onion (two stems), chili pepper, sesame oil (2 tsp), rice vinegar (2 tablespoons).

Prepare the soba noodles according to the instructions on the package. We cut the fresh pork into pieces, wash, salt and pepper, then fry it in a pan over medium heat until cooked. Next, transfer the meat to a dish, add chopped cucumbers, noodles, chopped onions and chili peppers. Season the finished dish with sesame oil and rice vinegar. You can add salt to taste.

Rice with pepper and pineapple

Cuisine recipes often use fruits along with vegetables. If you want to cook something unusual, then you can use the following idea. Rice with pineapple and sweet pepper is very tasty. This dish makes you look at familiar products in a new way. It is often served not only as a salad, but also as a side dish to the main course. For cooking, take: sweet bell pepper (1 pc.), A jar of canned pineapples, brown rice (230 g), onion (1 pc.), Olive oil (tbsp. L.), Three cloves of garlic, ginger (about a centimeter of root) , sesame oil (2 tbsp.), green onion feather, pepper, salt, sesame seeds (tbsp. l.).

Boil brown rice in lightly salted water according to instructions. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and fry the chopped onion, ginger and garlic in it for just a few minutes. As soon as the onion becomes transparent, add the chopped pepper and simmer the ingredients for another three minutes. And only after that we put pineapple and boiled rice in the pan. We cook the dish for a couple more minutes, after which we remove it from the heat and season it with sesame oil and soy sauce. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly, if necessary, add salt and pepper. The dish is served hot, garnished with green onions and sesame seeds.

Chicken fillet with sesame seeds and honey

Simple recipes of Asian cuisine amaze with a combination of seemingly incongruous products. You can cook chicken with the addition of honey and sesame seeds very tasty. Such bold combinations of ingredients are very common in Asian cuisine.

For cooking, let's take quite familiar products: chicken fillet (490 g), honey (2 tablespoons), soy sauce (4 tablespoons), garlic (4 cloves), vegetable oil, curry, black pepper, ground ginger.

We wash the fillet thoroughly and cut into medium-sized portioned pieces. We pepper the meat, salt and rub with a mixture of curry and ginger. Also add soy sauce. If you like garlic, then you can add it to the fillet by passing it through a press. In this form, we leave the meat to marinate, one hour is enough, but you can increase the period of time.

Pour oil into a frying pan, heat it up and add honey. As soon as the last component has melted, mix the resulting mass so that it is evenly distributed over the entire surface of the pan. Next, lay out the fillet and fry over low heat until golden brown on both sides. At the end of cooking, sprinkle the meat with sesame seeds and after a few minutes remove the chicken from the heat.

Carrots in Vietnamese

Many have long been fond of spicy snacks and Asian cuisine. There are an incredible number of Asian food recipes, but not all products can be purchased from us, so it makes sense to choose those dishes for which components can be found. A very tasty spicy Vietnamese appetizer can be made from daikon and carrots. To do this, we need: an equal amount of daikon radish and carrots (280 g each), sugar (2 tablespoons), salt (2 teaspoons), a glass of water and a quarter cup of vinegar.

Useful Japanese radish is used to prepare the dish. We clean the carrots and daikon, cut the root crops into strips using a special grater. Pour water into the pan and send it to the fire, the liquid needs to be slightly heated. Next, add salt, sugar and vinegar to it. The components should be mixed until the sugar crystals are completely dissolved. We will need several glass jars. In them we will shift the chopped vegetables. Pour the marinade on top of each bowl. We cork the jars and send them to the refrigerator to infuse.

Vietnamese fish

Fish is an integral part of oriental cuisine. You can cook a wonderful Vietnamese dish from white fish. To do this, take: fish fillet (430 g), shallots (3 pcs.), Two cloves of garlic, lemongrass (three stalks), grated ginger (1 cm root), turmeric (tsp), salt, chili powder (1/2 tsp), cilantro, vegetable oil, soy sauce (table. l.).

It is necessary to mix together shallots, garlic, lemongrass, ginger, turmeric, pepper, salt, chili powder. Add oil to the mixture of ingredients. Next, wash and cut the fish into pieces. We shift it into the prepared marinade. After fifteen minutes, the fish is taken out and baked in foil, for example, on a grill. Before serving, the dish is decorated with cilantro or onion greens, and poured with soy sauce on top.

Bananas in batter

There are many desserts in Asian cuisine. Bananas in batter have become very popular at the present time. To prepare the dish, only rice flour is used, which makes the dessert very tender. To prepare sweets, we take: three bananas, powdered sugar (60 g), rice flour (120 g), peanut butter (2 tablespoons), carbonated water (half a glass).

Pour rice flour into a deep container, and then slowly pour in sparkling water. Next, knead the dough, which has the consistency of low-fat sour cream. Bananas should be taken ripe, but without dark spots. We clean them and cut them into three parts. Dip each piece in batter and fry in hot peanut butter. Bananas should be golden brown. Ready fried dessert must be sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Instead of an afterword

Diverse Asian cuisine is rich in recipes that are unusual for us. We have given only a few of them that you can cook at home.

Asian cuisine no longer seems to be something distant and unusual. Dishes of this cuisine can be tasted in numerous restaurants or even cooked at home. Knowing certain tricks and subtleties, any housewife will cope with them.

We've got 15 awesome Asian food recipes to make in your own kitchen.

1. Chinese Egg Rice

This Chinese dish has a very original and interesting taste. It is perfect for a hearty lunch or dinner.

Ingredients:

• 150 g rice
• 3 eggs
• 2 garlic cloves
• 5 onions
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
• 125 g green peas
• 1 st. l. soy sauce

Cooking method:

• Boil rice for 10-12 minutes. It should be almost ready, but not quite soft. Drain and rinse the rice under cold water.
• Put the eggs in the saucepan. Whisk a little and put on a small fire. Heat, stirring, until they thicken slightly.
• Heat the oil in a large wok or deep skillet. Add crushed garlic, finely chopped onion, boiled peas and fry, stirring occasionally, 1-2 minutes.
• Add rice to wok, stir.
• Add eggs, soy sauce and a pinch of salt. Stir.
• Arrange on plates and serve.

2. Asian noodle and shrimp salad

This salad is a great solution for the case when there is no time to cook, but you want to have a delicious lunch.

Ingredients:

• 600 g thin noodles
• 1 kg shrimp (cooked)
• 1 bunch radish
• 1 bunch basil
• 150 ml sweet soy sauce
• salt pepper
• olive oil

Cooking method:

• Place the noodles in a heatproof bowl. Pour boiling water, salt, pepper and leave for 5 minutes or until tender.
• Transfer the noodles to a large bowl. Add shrimp, chopped radish, basil, a little olive oil and mix gently.
• Divide salad among bowls. Drizzle with soy sauce and serve immediately.

3. Soup with pork and egg noodles

Asian soups have a wonderful rich taste. The main thing is to buy all the ingredients in advance and strictly follow the recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 st. l. vegetable oil
• 250 g pork
• 8 stalks green onions
• grated ginger root
• 6 cups chicken broth
• 120 g egg noodles
• 1 st. l. soy sauce
• 1 carrot
• 2 radishes
• 1/2 cup cilantro
• 2 eggs
• salt, ground black pepper

Cooking method:

• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
• Fry the pork in a pan until tender.
• Boil the egg noodles according to package directions until almost done.
• Add the chopped onion and ginger to the pan. Cook, stirring, until soft, 1-2 minutes.
• Pour in the broth and bring to a boil.
• Add noodles and cook, stirring, until soft, 2-3 minutes.
• Add soy sauce.
• Mix stock and noodles with pork, carrots, chopped radish and sliced ​​hard-boiled egg.
• Pour into bowls and serve.

4. Rolls "Philadelphia"

Make rolls at home. First, it's not that hard. And secondly, very fun and interesting. Invite your friends over and cook this popular Japanese dish together. It's really close.

Ingredients:

• 200 g sushi rice
• 1 sheet nori seaweed
• 150 g salmon
• 20 ml rice vinegar
• 150 g Philadelphia cheese
• 1 cucumber

Cooking method:

• Boil the rice as directed on the package. When you take it off the heat, put it in a bowl and pour over the vinegar.
• Take a bamboo mat and wrap it in cling film. Place a sheet of nori on top (rough side up).
• Spread rice on top of the nori sheet (2/3 from the surface of the sheet). Cover the rice with a mat and turn over. Rice should be at the bottom.
• Place cream cheese in the center of the nori sheet.
• Cut the cucumber into 4 pieces lengthwise. Put the cucumber next to the cheese.
• Roll up the roll with the mat.
• Cut the salmon into thin slices and lay close to each other on the roll. Cover again with a rug.
• Cut the roll with a sharp knife dipped in water into 6-8 pieces.
• Put on a plate and serve.

5. Funchoza with chicken and vegetables

By itself, funchose is not so satisfying. But if you add chicken and vegetables to it, you can have a very tasty and satisfying lunch.

Ingredients:

• 500 g chicken fillet
• 200 g funchose
• 400 g green beans
• 2 onions
• 1 carrot
• 1 bell pepper
• 50 ml rice vinegar
• 50 ml soy sauce
• salt, ground black pepper
• 1 garlic clove

Cooking method:

• Cut the chicken fillet into long slices. Fry over high heat.
• Add spices and onion, cut into half rings. Fry until golden brown.
• Prepare funchose following the instructions on the package.
• Bulgarian pepper cut into strips.
• Grate carrots on a coarse grater.
• Boil string beans.
• Fry green beans, carrots, peppers until tender, adding spices and crushed garlic.
• Mix cooked chicken with onions, funchose and vegetables in a large bowl.
• Season with rice vinegar and soy sauce.
• Let it brew for 1 hour. The dish can be consumed both warm and cold.

6. Spicy pork with soba noodles

A very appetizing dish that is impossible to refuse. If you are throwing an Asian style party, this is exactly what you need.

Ingredients:

• 240 g soba noodles
• 550 g pork
• salt, ground black pepper
• 1 st. l. vegetable oil
• 1/2 cucumber
• 2 stalks of green onions
• 1 red chili
• 2 tbsp. l. rice vinegar
• 2 tsp sesame oil

Cooking method:

• Prepare the soba noodles according to package directions.
• Season the pork with salt and pepper.
• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
• Fry the pork, cut into pieces, until tender, stirring constantly.
• Mix pork with noodles. Add chopped cucumbers, chopped onions, chopped chili peppers.
• Season the dish with vinegar and sesame oil. Salt.
• Arrange the dish on plates and serve.

7. Rice with pineapple and sweet pepper

Rice reveals itself in a new way when cooked with unusual ingredients. In Asian countries, they are very fond of adding pineapples and sweet peppers to rice. It turns out very juicy and tasty!

Ingredients:

• 200 g brown rice
• 1 can of pineapple
• 1 bell pepper
• 1 onion
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1 st. l. olive oil
• ginger root
• 3 art. l. soy sauce
• 2 tbsp. l. sesame oil
• 1 st. l. sesame seeds
• green onion feathers
• salt pepper

Cooking method:

• Boil rice in salted water.
• In a skillet heated over medium heat with olive oil, fry the peeled and finely chopped onion, garlic and ginger for 3 minutes until the onion is translucent.
• Add diced peppers and fry for another 3-5 minutes, then put boiled rice and pineapple in the pan.
• Add soy sauce and sesame oil, salt and pepper and mix thoroughly. Serve hot, sprinkled with sesame seeds and chopped green onions.

Honey and sesame seeds are a great addition to chicken. Such bold combinations can often be found in Asian cuisine.

Ingredients:

• 500 g chicken breasts
• 4 tbsp. l. soy sauce
• 2 tbsp. l. honey
• vegetable oil
• 4 garlic cloves
• ground black pepper
• curry
• ground ginger

Cooking method:

• Rinse the chicken breasts thoroughly, cut into portions. Salt, season with pepper, ginger and curry. Add soy sauce.
• Squeeze out the garlic with a garlic press. Add to breasts.
• Thoroughly mix the breasts with all the seasonings, leave to marinate for 1 hour.
• Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and add honey. Wait until the honey has melted, and gently mix it with vegetable oil so that it is distributed throughout the pan.
• Place chicken breasts in skillet and fry over low heat until golden brown on both sides.
• At the end, sprinkle with a handful of sesame seeds, mix. Remove from heat after a couple of minutes.

Spring rolls are not only a cool snack, but also a complete meal. It all depends on the filling you choose.

Ingredients:

• 30 g carrots
• 30 g leek
• 50 g cucumber
• 12 g garlic
• 5 g ginger root
• cilantro
• ground white pepper
• 30 g soy sprouts
• 30 g shiitake mushrooms
• 30 g oyster mushrooms
• thai sweet sauce
• white rice vinegar
• Sesame oil
• soy sauce
• 20 g rice glass noodles
• 1 sheet of spring roll dough
• 100 g chicken broth
• 1 egg
• 200 g pork neck
• 200 ml vegetable oil

Cooking method:

• Scroll the meat through a meat grinder.
• Crush, peel the garlic and divide it into 3 parts: finely chop the first part, cut the second into slices, and grind the third into a paste.
• Finely chop the leeks, mushrooms and soy sprouts. Chop carrots and cucumbers into thin strips, peel and finely chop the ginger.
• Pour boiling water over the noodles for 8 minutes (do not boil the noodles), then drain the water, and finely chop the noodles and cilantro.
• In a skillet, heat half the sesame seeds and 2 tbsp. l. sunflower oil.
• Fry the minced meat over high heat for 1 minute, add a clove of finely chopped garlic, leeks, carrots and mushrooms.
• Fry over medium heat for 3 minutes, then add half of the broth, soy sauce and simmer for another 5 minutes until the broth has evaporated.
• For the sauce, combine the rice vinegar, remaining broth, Thai sauce, diced garlic, and minced ginger.
• Combine minced meat, noodles, cilantro, minced garlic, soy sprouts and cucumber in a bowl, add ground white pepper and remaining sesame oil.
• Lightly beat the egg with a fork.
• Lay out a sheet of dough, lay out the filling, roll into a roll, grease the edges with an egg.
• Heat 200 ml of sunflower oil in a saucepan.
• Using a spoon, dip the spring roll into the oil - if it begins to brown, the oil has reached the right temperature.
• Fry spring rolls in oil for 1 minute.
• Put the rolls on a plate, serve with sauce.

Noodles go great with seafood. Keep in mind that the vegetables should remain slightly crunchy. You shouldn't overcook them.

Ingredients:

• 300 g noodles
• 300 g peeled shrimp
• 1 sweet red pepper
• 1 sweet green pepper
• 1 sweet yellow pepper
• 2 carrots
• 1 onion
• 2 tbsp. l. soy sauce
• 2 tbsp. l. sesame or olive oil

Cooking method:

• Boil the noodles.
• Cut onion and pepper into small cubes. Carrot cut into strips no more than 5 mm in thickness.
• Fry the vegetables over high heat in a frying pan heated with sesame oil for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Add shrimp and fry for 2 more minutes.
• Then add the noodles and soy sauce and fry for another 2-3 minutes while stirring constantly.

Pickled carrots with daikon are a great way to diversify your diet.

Ingredients:

• 1 glass of water
• 1/4 cup vinegar
• 2 tbsp. l. Sahara
• 2 tsp salt
• 250 g carrots
• 250 g daikon

Cooking method:

• Cut carrots and daikon into thin strips.
• Put water on fire and heat until warm.
• Mix water with vinegar, sugar and salt. Mix well until the sugar is completely dissolved.
• Take a few jars. Fill them with daikon carrots.
• Pour the marinade over the contents.
• Close jars tightly with lids and let steep.

To appreciate the Thai flavor, it is not at all necessary to go to another country. Just cook this national soup.

Ingredients:

• 300 ml coconut milk
• 300 ml fish broth
• 5 lemongrass leaves
• 5 kaffir lime leaves
• ginger root
• 1 chili pepper
• 10 shrimp
• cilantro
• 4 shiitake mushrooms
• 1 st. l. fish sauce
• 1/2 tsp brown sugar
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1 st. l. vegetable oil
• 1/2 tsp sesame oil
• 1 lime

Cooking method:

• Boil shiitake and shrimp until tender.
• Finely chop the lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves, garlic, pepper and ginger.
• Fry garlic and pepper in hot vegetable and sesame oil for 1 minute. Then crush them with a mortar.
• Pour coconut milk and broth into a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Dip the lemongrass, ginger and kaffir lime leaves into the soup.
• Then add the garlic-pepper mixture and cook for 1-2 minutes.
• Pour in the fish sauce. Add chopped mushrooms and cook for 2 more minutes.
• Add lime juice and sugar. Stir gently.
• Put the shrimp into the soup, remove the soup from the heat.
• Sprinkle with chopped cilantro before serving.

Fish is an essential ingredient in Asian cuisine. You can cook it in completely different ways.

Ingredients:

• 450 g white fish fillet
• 2 garlic cloves
• 3–4 pcs. shallots
• 3 stalks lemongrass
• 1 tsp turmeric
• 1 tsp grated ginger root
• 1/2 tsp chili powder
• salt, ground black pepper
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
• 1 st. l. soy sauce
• cilantro or green onion

Cooking method:

• Grind together garlic, shallots, lemongrass, turmeric, ginger, chili powder, salt and pepper. Gradually pour in the oil.
• Rinse the fish and cut into medium pieces. Marinate and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
• Then put the fish on the foil. Place in the oven for 15-20 minutes or cook on a preheated grill over medium heat for 10-15 minutes.
• Before serving, drizzle the fish with soy sauce and garnish with cilantro or green onions.

Thai style beef is usually served with rice. Aromatic basil adds a special taste to this dish.

Ingredients (this recipe makes 2 servings):

• 240 g beef tenderloin
• 15 g lemongrass
• 1 lime
• 1 garlic clove
• cilantro
• green onion
• 1 chili pepper
• basil
• 10 g oyster sauce
• 25 g fish sauce
• 10 g soy sauce
• 100 g chicken broth
• cane sugar
• 10 g cornstarch
• 160 g jasmine rice
• olive oil

Cooking method:

• Pour rice with cold water in a ratio of 1/1.5, bring to a boil, cover and cook over moderate heat until the water has completely evaporated (6-7 minutes).
• Crush and coarsely chop the lemongrass. Cut the beef into thin slices and marinate with lemongrass, soy sauce and 1/2 starch, mix.
• Peel, crush and finely chop the garlic, mash it to a paste. Cut and finely chop 2 thin sheets of chili pepper, mix with garlic. Add the fish sauce, 1/4 lime juice and sugar to the garlic paste.
• Coarsely chop the green onion. Dissolve remaining starch in chicken broth.
• Remove the lemongrass and fry the beef over high heat in olive oil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly, pour in the sauce and starch, add the oyster sauce, bring to a boil.
• Add onion and basil, stir and remove from heat.
• Arrange the beef and vegetables on the rice, sprinkle with finely chopped cilantro and serve.

In Chinese cuisine, there is a dessert popular all over the world - battered bananas. Rice flour is traditionally used in this dish. This makes the dough very soft.

Ingredients:

• 3 medium bananas
• 100 g rice flour
• 50 g powdered sugar
• 100 ml carbonated mineral water
• 2 tbsp. l. peanut butter

Cooking method:

• Pour the flour into a deep bowl, slowly add sparkling water and knead the dough, resembling low-fat sour cream in consistency.
• Peel bananas, cut either lengthwise in half or across into 3 parts. Dipping bananas in batter, fry in hot peanut butter for a few minutes on each side until golden brown.
• Sprinkle fried bananas generously with powdered sugar.