Top cooking techniques every chef should know overview. Through sunsets the complete wok cook book, you will be able to replace your frying pan, deepfryer, and steamer with a versatile, easytouse wok, and brighten mealtime with exotic cuisine from china, vietnam, sri lanka, and americas southwest region. Basic tips for cooking chinese food the spruce eats. To recreate stir fry at home, where the heat is tamer, set the wok on mediumhigh, with. The book then explains the principles of stirfrying, and there are a few really critical techniques that explained very clearly, e. Easy stepbystep wok cooking recipes for beginners kindle edition by stone, martha. Cooking for one cookbook for beginners and wok cookbook for beginners by claire daniels 2014, paperback at the best online prices at ebay. The most famous examples of steaming are dim sum, dumplings, buns, and steamed fish. Hey we use a wok for 90% of our cooking at home and need to upgrade our cooktop, and could use some advice. Return the protein and aromatics to the wok and swirl liquid ingredients. And watch videos demonstrating recipe prep and cooking techniques.
If you are cooking with a western electric range cooker, your best option is to use a flatbottom wok. The chinese stir fry sauce cookbook omnivores cookbook. With its emphasis on cooking with all the senses, the breath of a wok brings the techniques and flavors of oldworld wok cooking into todays kitchen, enabling anyone to stirfry with wok hay. In her book, the breath of a wok, young further explores the ideas and concepts of wok hei. Flavors and techniques from china, japan, korea, and southeast asia. Cooking methods used in chinese cuisine hi everyone, some of our followers have requested we expand information on exactly how to cook our recipes and we thought it would be good to start with some basic techniques and add more to the collection as we think of them r if yall request them. The long handles of these utensils allow cooks to work with the food without burning their hands. Master the techniques and tools for cooking chinese cuisine in just one piece of cookware. Preheat the wok until the oil is smoking, then keep an eye on the temperature so its hot enough to sear food and cook quickly but not burning. A 157page e cookbook that guides you through the basic chinese ingredients, cooking equipment and stir fry workflow, to help you cook chinese food like a pro. You will never go wrong with this wok cooking book it has useful techniques, a brief explanation on choosing the right seasonings and a great selection of mouth watering recipes that will surely blow your mind. But what no one has bothered to mention yet is that it is only out in the uk right now. Its my goto method when i have a fridge full of ingredients and a half hour to put dinner on the table. To recreate stir fry at home, where the heat is tamer, set the wok.
Jul 10, 2015 part of the reason food cooks so quickly in a restaurant kitchen wok is because of the constant high heat. Because the actual cooking is so fast, its an ideal summer mealno heating up the apartment with a hot oven or a longsimmering pot. Wok master grace young shares secrets of great stirfrying. The 10 commandments to cooking with a wok first we feast. Its rounded shape and long sloping sides provide an extended cooking surface, which may be heated to very high temperatures with little fuel. The trick is to use small amounts of water or broth, adding just a small amount 1 to 2 tablespoons at a time. For bao technique and wok hei, lengthen the time for the wok to preheat, so that the wok reaches a very high temperature just before you put in the oil, raw vegetable or meat. The ultimate guide to mastery, with authentic recipes and stories the breath of a wok. Fresh recipes to sizzle, steam, and stirfry restaurant favorites at home charmaine ferrara.
Master wok techniques with our cooking class in london. To get started, you need to know the basic ingredients, tools, and techniques to make your chinese cooking the best it can be. If preparing stirfried meat and vegetables, stirfry the meat first and set it aside. I think we found a solid solution within budget but wanted to run it by some of you to make sure in case we could do better. A stirfry is the ultimate onepan dish and literally any combination of ingredients can be used to create a stirfry. Cooking chinese food at home can be quick, easy, and fun. The wok is most commonly associated with the technique of stirfrying, but can be used to deepfry, braise, roast, steam, and simmer.
Woks are used in a range of different chinese cooking techniques, including stir frying, steaming, pan frying, deep frying, poaching, boiling, braising, searing, stewing, making soup, smoking and roasting nuts. Find s of food network s best recipes from top chefs, shows and experts. This table lists a variety of chinese cooking techniques and what you use them for, and a few tips as well. Dunlops books are great, and im sure the new one is too. Part of the reason food cooks so quickly in a restaurant kitchen wok is because of the constant high heat. Wok cooking is done with longhandled utensils called chahn or hoak. This was the book that i was told to read if i wanted to learn how to cook. Rather than the lowheat, moist cooking method thats meant to convert collagen in tough meats to gelatinwhat we typically refer to as braising in western cuisines wok braising essentially creates a. Red stewing is a unique chinese cooking technique, used primarily for cooking a tougher cut of meat or poultry. You dont need to marinate the meat for long, though. This new edition of the cooks book, winner of the gourmand world cookbook award, is an essential ingredient for every kitchen with all the knowhow you need to become a skilled chef. Iacp awardwinner young details the fundamentals of selecting, seasoning, and caring for a wok, as well as the range. Using this chinese cookbook, recreate popular restaurant dishes like orange chicken and honeywalnut shrimp, or cook up chinese family comfort food like yangzhou fried rice and steamed egg with. If youve purchased a wok and have no idea how to cook with it, or generally have no clue what purpose a wok serves join one our classes and be prepared to wok your socks off.
This chinese dish translates to chicken with sliced mushrooms. Easy, healthy wok cooking class with wok star eleanor hoh. Rouxbe online culinary school rouxbe online cooking school. Sizzle up delicious and easy wok recipes from pad thai to lo mein to sweetandsour stirfrysin the comfort of your own kitchen. But few of us achieve the elusive quality of wok hay the cantonese term for heat, vitality and fragrance that comes with wok cooking. Mar 23, 2018 scrub the wok with steel wool, hot water and soap to remove the factory coating. Our wok cooking classes are dedicated to any wokstars in the making by awakening their inner wokhey skills. Uniformly cut pieces of protein, vegetables, and aromatics will ensure even cooking. Stir frying 101, chinese stir fry techniques using pork and. Beef strips are wok fried with a by mandi zainab raimi.
Transfer the halves to the indirect heat side and cover the grill, cooking for 2 to 3 minutes until the stems are tender. Corporate executives, wok enthusiasts, busy parents, healthconscious eaters all will learn immensely helpful skills. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Red cooking also called chinese stewing, red stewing, red braising and flavour potting, is a slow braising chinese cooking technique that imparts a red color to the prepared food. Classic family recipes for celebration and healing. Fast, easy, and tasty, stirfrying is one of our favorite cooking methods for busy weeknights, and it should be yours, too. If youre in the mood for chinese food, dont go out try cooking it yourself. Learn how to make mouthwatering sauces and how to cook rice to perfection, and discover the secret to making good bread and how to rescue homemade mayonnaise. The top easy and quick recipes for wok cooking for beginners. Open your windows, shut off your smoke alarm, and turn on all.
The most common method of cooking ho fun is in soup before the wok. Good stirfries require super high heat, and super high heat creates smoke. Round bottom woks can reflect heat back on the element, damaging it. The wok cooking techniques i teach are adaptable to any diet. Happy chinese new year from all of us here at school of wok. Ginger beef, a takeout favorite, is even better made at home. Jun 30, 2010 stirfrying makes for the quintessential weeknight supper. Usually you will return it to the wok with a sauce during the final stages of cooking. For that, young says, you need proper tools, techniques. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the wok cookbook for beginners.
Pang comes from three generations of chinese chefs and developed a passion for food early in life. In general, the wok must be heated when the cooking oil in it starts to vaporize blue vapors. Unlocking the spirit of chinese wok cooking through recipes and lore the wisdom of the chinese kitchen. A 14inch flatbottomed carbonsteel wok with a long wooden handle is the best allpurpose wok. The cooking techniques can either be grouped into ones that use a single cooking method or a combination of wet and dry cooking methods. The most important part of a stirfry begins before you even pull out the wok. A fully illustrated albeit in black and white guide to cooking traditional chinese food by a young tv producer turned cooking instructor named ken hom. The technique originated in china and in recent centuries has spread into other parts of asia and the west. May 18, 2017 the pages of essential chinese cooking, by jeremy pang, are filled with colorful photographs of delicious looking food. Cooking methods used in chinese cuisine the woks of life. Bell peppers, mushrooms and ginger provide the bulk of the flavor in this stirfry thats not too saucy. I am an avid stirfry cook and this book has some great wok stirfry recipes, but it has so much more.
An easy weeknight dinner, this quick chicken stirfry with pineapple is as delicious as it is colorful. The fried noodles with beef meat are called ho fun. Do this as often as needed to cook and brown the food, without steaming it. Wok cooking might look like a mess of food flying in a bowl, but the food is actually reacting to heat in a very scientific way. Meat is usually browned first, then large quantities. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers.
The main advantage of the wok, is the very round shape of the wok. Throughout the six chapters jeremy outlines the fundamental techniques of chinese cooking, focusing on a range of delicious, simpleto cook, yet authentic chinese recipes. Originally, woks came with two metal handles to make them easy to lift in and out of the traditional. A wok distributes heat very evenly from the base and up the sides, and because of the steep sides, you can move food around in it, explains fuchsia dunlop, the author of land of fish and rice. The carbon steel heats quickly and conducts heat efficiently, meaning it can cook food fast to give it classic chinesestyle seared flavor.
There are several techniques for making a flavorful sauce for stirfry. Chinese cooking involves all kinds of techniques from stirfrying to steaming to simmering. As much as you might want to cook extra stirfry to have for lunch the next day, you should. That means you can crank up the flame, get the pan really. Its easy, fun and you can cook almost everything with it. The wok shop is located in san franciscos chinatown weve been selling woks for over 40 years. Patrick dunn of intercourse chef services shows you the basics of making a tasty green chicken curry dish using a wok.
This class is perfect for anyone looking for easy, fast, healthy meals. A culinary teacher and the founder of school of wok in london, pang is exactly the person you need and want to teach you the basics of chinese cooking. Tips stirfrying crisp, brightly colored foods with lots of nutrition and flavor, but. Broth, wine, soy sauce or coconut milk, to name a few down the side of the wok to deglaze the pan and intensify the flavor. Join wok wednesdays, a group of enthusiastic cooks working their way through graces book, stirfrying to the skys. Breath of a wok is more of a primer on woks and wok cooking techniques. Breath of a wok unlocking the spirit of chinese wok cooking through recipes and lore by young, grace, richardson, alan isbn. Recipes and techniques for steaming, grilling, deepfrying, smoking, due to covid19, orders may be delayed. It is a comprehensive guide to wok history, culture, maintenance and cooking techniques and demonstrates how a wok can be used for so much more than stirfry.
Recipes from the culinary heart of china as well as several books about chinese cooking. When youre talking about wok cooking techniques, braising is something of a misnomer. Sizzle up delicious and easy wok recipesfrom pad thai to lo mein to sweetandsour stirfrysin the comfort of your own kitchen. In essential chinese cooking, acclaimed teacher and school of wok founder, jeremy pang brings the authentic flavors of traditional chinese cooking into your own kitchen. Arm yourself with these recipes, assemble your chopped meat andor vegetables, and youll be ready to woker, rock. Liang nian xius moon hill corn and beans serves 4 as part of a multicourse meal. Following, from youngs book, are stirfrying recipes and more wok hay tips. Toss chunks of meat, poultry or seafood in cornstarch before cooking or add a touch of cornstarch mixed with water to the sauce before cooking. Since ingredients cook so fast and retain so much crunch, its also the ideal way to showcase. Wok cookbook for beginners wok cooking, cooking for one. Place the halved bok choy cutside down on the hot side of the grill.
It has everything you will need to know in order to cook well, from simple knife techniques, to building sauces, to tying roasts, to your basic cuts of meat. When cooking meat or poultry, make sure that the wok is very hot before adding the food. Soy sauce is a must both light and dark, but youll need these other sauces and spices to get your wok on, anytime. Woks are one of those items everyone should have in their kitchenthis chinese vessel can be used for stirfrying, steaming, deepfrying, poaching and. Apr 27, 2010 patrick dunn of intercourse chef services shows you the basics of making a tasty green chicken curry dish using a wok. Fortyone easy recipes that are practical to cook in your kitchen, without purchasing a wok.