Modern Asian Kitchen: Essential and Easy Recipes for Ramen, Dumplings, Dim Sum, Stir-Fries, Rice Bowls, Pho, Bibimbaps, and More (Kat Lieu)

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The New Asian Cooking is bolder and more assertive, less fussy and more casual. With these easy-to-shop-for, quick-to-cook recipes, you can tryand will fall in love withthis trending style right in your own kitchen.

Heaped on big plates, Sichuan beef and broccoli and Indian chicken tikka masala are timeless comfort foods, to be sure, but theres a brand-new style of Asian cooking thats giving them a run for their money. Its more about grazing throughsmall platesthan sinking into one big one. Its more aboutpan-Asian fusionsthird culture foods, the cooking of the Asian diasporathanabout each cultures oldest traditions. Its moreplant-forwardthan meat-centered. Its irreverent and fun and incredibly delicious. And its all captured inModern Asian Kitchen.

Kat Lieuthe blogger and online personality who presides over the Subtle Asian Baking corner of the enormously popularModern Asian Baking at Homeserves up more than 80 inventive recipes for:

• Vibrantvegetable disheslike Sichuan-style fish-fragranteggplant and umami-packed braised shiitake mushrooms
• Quick noodle dishesforsuper-easylunches
• Quick-fixmatcharamen bowls and simple miso soups
• Dim sum, with tricks and food hacks like rice-paper shrimp dumplings
• Street-food favoriteslike Taiwanese popcorn chicken in the air fryer
• Customizablebibimbap bowlsforbusy-weeknight dinners
• SoutheastAsianfavoriteslikecold-papayasalads, streaming hot phos, and spring rolls with surprising things inside and punchy chile-crisp coatings on the outside

The recipes also include:

• Umami-Packed Spiral Cucumber Salad
• Sumptuous Siu Mai and Easy Dim Sum
• Melty Cheesecake Bao
• Tonys Spicy Cumin Skewers
• Crispy Crackling Roast Pork
• Clay Pot Taiwanese Three-Cup Chicken
• Mapo Tofu and Veggies
• Pandan Tres Leches with a Kaya Drizzle

Whether you are cooking a family-style feast of a dozen exciting dishes for thesharing table, or you just want a simple and hearty one-bowl meal at the end of a busy workday (or a quick meal when you work from home), you will finda lifetime of tasty ideasin the pages ofModernAsianKitchen.