Asian Salads shows you how to prepare the amazing variety of delicious Asian vegetables, herbs, and seasonings found in your local supermarket, farmers market, and world food market. It presents 75 recipes that will excite and awaken your palate — and open up new food horizons! Simple enough for everyday meals and interesting enough for special occasions, you can't go wrong with these delicious Asian recipes!
Dozens of fragrant herbs like cilantro, Thai basil, and lemongrass are combined with delicious fresh Asian vegetables like Napa cabbage, spicy kimchi, daikon, and many more! The dressings in this Asian cookbook are truly to die for — featuring exciting aromas and flavours ranging from pungent fish sauce to rich miso paste and black soy to aromatic sesame oil, sweet rice vinegar, five spice powder, Korean gochujang bean paste, and so much more!
These healthy recipes are simple and easy to prepare — based on classic dishes found in Vietnam, Thailand, India, China and Korea. Many of the vegetables are eaten raw or lightly pickled before being dressed with a pungent sauce. Other preparations involve blanching or quick stir-frying. Many of the dishes have optional meat or seafood additions, and are perfect when served as side dishes or with alcoholic beverages — or as a complete and satisfying one-dish meal!
Easy step-by-step instructions and photos provide shortcuts and substitutes to save you time.
The salad recipes are organised into four chapters:
- Mixed Salad
- Fried Salads
- Pickled and Marinated Salads
- Quick Stir-Fry Salads
About the Author
Maki Watanabe is recognized for her easy-to-understand recipes and her innovative combinations of ingredients and seasonings. She is active in the natural lifestyle community in a variety of ways, including her collaboration with SHOP to produce original kitchen utensils and clothing, as well as in magazines and books, advertisements, and on television. She has written many books in Japanese, including her two-time "Recipe Book Award" winner,
Daily Side Salads.
Industry Reviews
"Beautifully illustrated throughout and a salad-lovers dream to browse through and plan menus with, Asian Salads will prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to personal, professional, family, and community library cookbook collections." - Midwest Book Review
"This book is a great pick for those interested in trying a variety of salad and vegetable-based recipes. There is a nice mixture of light salads along with more intricate ones filling enough to be a main course. Some take as little as 5 minutes to prepare, with no cooking required, while a few others involve more complicated techniques." - Tara's Multicultural Table
"The book, as the title explains, is filled with 72 different salad recipes from the countries of Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, and India. The salads run the gamut from marinated and pickled salads to salads with meat or seafood. I set out to try a variety of recipes from the book, and all were delicious...Grab a copy of the book and jump on the salad train with me!" - La Fuji Mama blog
"...Maki Watanabe has done a wonderful service explaining 72 varied recipes...with plenty of options for vegetarians, pescatarians, and omnivores." - Culinaire Magazine
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"What makes these recipes so inviting to try is their simplicity in preparation. What with all the shortcut and substitute tips given in the instructions, it would be difficult to go wrong...It is something that will not overwhelm neophyte cooks nor bore seasoned ones. The author's passion for Asian salads shines through in every page and that is something every reader can start on." - Ambos Mundos Family Food blog
"Asian Salads would make a great holiday gift for anyone that enjoys salad as well as those who enjoy entertaining, want to change up their menu or are trying to eat a little healthier." - From Val's Kitchen blog
"This is the best cookbook that focuses on salads that I've ever seen. The key is that it's (1) authentically Asian and (2) has a broad concept of what constitutes a salad...The photos for each recipe are gorgeous! Plus, the numerous sidebars with "hand-written" tips, photos, and engaging explanations make it a fascinating and fun book just to read through. And the recipes, while often very simple, are also simply amazing!" - Foods4.us blog
