Asian food
Last night I used a recipe from Everyday Food to make an Asian feast for dinner. It was fun, and I liked the results. First we had tempura. I basically followed that linked recipe, but for our vegetables we had sweet potatoes, red peppers, onion, asparagus, zucchini, and broccoli. And for the tempura dipping sauce I mixed 2 tablespoons soy sauce,
2 teaspoons fresh lime juice, and 1 teaspoon superfine granulated sugar in a saucepan over medium heat until the sugar melted. I thought it was all really good, and just a little messy. Here are some of the pieces before they were eaten:
Next we had sweet and sour chicken with peppers, scallions, zucchini, and pineapple. I served that along with steamed broccoli and snow peas (with a brown oyster sauce) and steamed rice. Those recipes were the ones from Everyday Food. It has turned out to be a great resource. Anyway, here was dinner:
Everyone liked it. The sweet and sour sauce was really good and the pineapple was a nice touch.
For dessert I did an experiment. I had some fruit that looked good at the store, and I wanted to serve that with some type of sorbet (mango, lime, coconut, something along those lines) but I couldn't find anything like that at home, and we already discussed in a pervious post how I was sans ice cream maker to make my own sorbet. So, what to do??? Certainly the fruit would have been fine on it's own, or we could have skipped dessert all together, but where's the fun in that? I decided that I wanted to make sticky rice with mango (which is a typical asian dessert). But there was a problem with that! I didn't have sticky rice, and didn't have the time or patience to make it the way the recipes I found said it should be made. Did that stop me? Never! Instead of "sticky rice" I made coconut risotto to go with my fresh mangoes. Now, I have to say ahead of time, that there were no recipes for coconut risotto so I basically made it up and hoped for the best, and it did turn out better than I expected. The rice was sticky, and it tasted the way it should, but the consistency wasn't perfect, I would have to tweak the proportions a little next time to come up with a true coconut risotto. Anyway, I still liked it. Here's what it looked like:
Yum! Asian food is great.
2 teaspoons fresh lime juice, and 1 teaspoon superfine granulated sugar in a saucepan over medium heat until the sugar melted. I thought it was all really good, and just a little messy. Here are some of the pieces before they were eaten:
Next we had sweet and sour chicken with peppers, scallions, zucchini, and pineapple. I served that along with steamed broccoli and snow peas (with a brown oyster sauce) and steamed rice. Those recipes were the ones from Everyday Food. It has turned out to be a great resource. Anyway, here was dinner:
Everyone liked it. The sweet and sour sauce was really good and the pineapple was a nice touch.
For dessert I did an experiment. I had some fruit that looked good at the store, and I wanted to serve that with some type of sorbet (mango, lime, coconut, something along those lines) but I couldn't find anything like that at home, and we already discussed in a pervious post how I was sans ice cream maker to make my own sorbet. So, what to do??? Certainly the fruit would have been fine on it's own, or we could have skipped dessert all together, but where's the fun in that? I decided that I wanted to make sticky rice with mango (which is a typical asian dessert). But there was a problem with that! I didn't have sticky rice, and didn't have the time or patience to make it the way the recipes I found said it should be made. Did that stop me? Never! Instead of "sticky rice" I made coconut risotto to go with my fresh mangoes. Now, I have to say ahead of time, that there were no recipes for coconut risotto so I basically made it up and hoped for the best, and it did turn out better than I expected. The rice was sticky, and it tasted the way it should, but the consistency wasn't perfect, I would have to tweak the proportions a little next time to come up with a true coconut risotto. Anyway, I still liked it. Here's what it looked like:
Yum! Asian food is great.
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