Asian Dumplings

Zusatztext IACP Cookbook Award finalist One of NPR's Best Cookbooks of 2009 Asian Dumplings is full of inspiration for vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike. Samosas! lumpia! pot stickers! momo! gyoza! wontons! and bao in one volume? And diagrams for all the folding techniques? Thank you! Andrea. Heidi Swanson! author of Super Natural Cooking If it's a small! succulent parcel encased in dough! pastry! batter! or leaves from anywhere between India and Polynesia! you'll find a recipe and crystal-clear instructions for making it with Andrea Nguyen's Asian Dumplings . Cooking Light! Favorite Cookbooks! 2010 "Nguyen! author of Into the Vietnamese Kitchen ! celebrates a wide array of dough-wrapped treats from China! Vietnam! Japan! Philippines! India and Korea in this lavishly photographed homage to the not-so-humble dumpling. . .Line drawings highlight shaping techniques to make half-moons! pea pods! crescents and footballs. Sections on sauces! seasoning and stocks! key ingredients and essential equipment round out a superb collection. This alluring and attractive book will appeal to a wide audience of home cooks and trained chefs." Publishers Weekly Until I began cooking from this remarkable book I had no idea that preparing Asian dumplings was so easy and so satisfying. Andrea Nguyen's latest work is authoritative! fun! and filled with recipes that yield insanely delicious results. James Oseland! editor in chief of Saveur and author of Cradle of Flavor I was truly excited when I first picked up this book! a feeling that quickly turned to awe. Andrea Nguyen introduces you to Asian dumplings you never knew existed! makes you feel that you can't live until you try them! then takes your hand and! in admirably lucid detail! shows you exactly how to make them. Asian Dumplings is destined to become a classicit's already an instant must-have for any Asian food lover. John Thorne! author of Outlaw Cook and Mouth Wide Open Andrea Nguyen has done a remarkable job of guiding us through the world of Asian dumplings! sharing their history and evolution and providing plenty of user-friendly recipes. This beautiful cookbook will make you want to throw a dumpling-making party every time you turn the page. Corinne Trang! author of Essentials of Asian Cuisine and Noodles Every Day Andrea' s humor! enthusiasm! and comforting pragmatism make me want to bolt into my kitchen to knead and roll and wrap and steam and bake and fry and! best of all! gobble. This book will make you very! very hungry. Niloufer Ichaporia King! author of My Bombay Kitchen Informationen zum Autor Andrea Nguyen Klappentext Is there anything more satisfying than a well-made Asian dumpling? Wrapped, rolled, or filled; steamed, fried, or baked-asian dumplings are also surprisingly easy to prepare and enjoy at home, as Andrea Nguyen demonstrates with more than 75 recipes. Nguyen is a celebrated food writer and teacher with a unique ability to interpret authentic Asian cooking styles for a Western audience. Her crystal-clear recipes for Asia's most popular savory and sweet parcels, pockets, packages, and pastries range from Lumpia (the addictive fried spring rolls from the Philippines) to Shanghai Soup Dumplings (delicate thin-skinned dumplings filled with hot broth and succulent pork) to Gulab Jamun (India's rich, syrupy sweets). Organized according to type (wheat pastas, skins, buns, and pastries; translucent wheat and tapioca preparations; rice dumplings; legumes and tubers; sweet dumplings), Asian Dumplings covers Eastern, Southeastern, and Southern Asia, with recipes from China, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Tibet, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Th...

**IACP Cookbook Award finalist
One of NPR's Best Cookbooks of 2009

“Asian Dumplings is full of inspiration for vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike. Samosas, lumpia, pot stickers, momo, gyōza, wontons, and bāo in one volume? And diagrams for all the folding techniques? Thank you, Andrea.” –Heidi Swanson, author of Super Natural Cooking

“If it's a small, succulent parcel encased in dough, pastry, batter, or leaves from anywhere between India and Polynesia, you'll find a recipe and crystal-clear instructions for making it with Andrea Nguyen's Asian Dumplings.” —Cooking Light, Favorite Cookbooks, 2010

"Nguyen, author of Into the Vietnamese Kitchen, celebrates a wide array of dough-wrapped treats from China, Vietnam, Japan, Philippines, India and Korea in this lavishly photographed homage to the not-so-humble dumpling. . .Line drawings highlight shaping techniques to make half-moons, pea pods, crescents and footballs. Sections on sauces, seasoning and stocks, key ingredients and essential equipment round out a superb collection. This alluring and attractive book will appeal to a wide audience of home cooks and trained chefs." —Publishers Weekly

“Until I began cooking from this remarkable book I had no idea that preparing Asian dumplings was so easy and so satisfying. Andrea Nguyen’s latest work is authoritative, fun, and filled with recipes that yield insanely delicious results.” –James Oseland, editor in chief of Saveur and author of *Cradle of Flavor

• “I was truly excited when I first picked up this book, a feeling that quickly turned to awe. Andrea Nguyen introduces you to Asian dumplings you never knew existed, makes you feel that you can’t live until you try them, then takes your hand and, in admirably lucid detail, shows you exactly how to make them. Asian Dumplings is destined to become a classic–it’s already an instant must-have for any Asian food lover.” –John Thorne, author of Outlaw Cook and Mouth Wide Open

“Andrea Nguyen has done a remarkable job of guiding us through the world of Asian dumplings, sharing their history and evolution and providing plenty of user-friendly recipes. This beautiful cookbook will make you want to throw a dumpling-making party every time you turn the page.”
–Corinne Trang, author of Essentials of Asian Cuisine and *Noodles Every Day

*“Andrea’ s humor, enthusiasm, and comforting pragmatism make me want to bolt into my kitchen to knead and roll and wrap and steam and bake and fry and, best of all, gobble. This book will make you very, very hungry.” –Niloufer Ichaporia King, author of My Bombay Kitchen

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Andrea Nguyen

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Is there anything more satisfying than a well-made Asian dumpling? Wrapped, rolled, or filled; steamed, fried, or baked-asian dumplings are also surprisingly easy to prepare and enjoy at home, as Andrea Nguyen demonstrates with more than 75 recipes.

Nguyen is a celebrated food writer and teacher with a unique ability to interpret authentic Asian cooking styles for a Western audience. Her crystal-clear recipes for Asia's most popular savory and sweet parcels, pockets, packages, and pastries range from Lumpia (the addictive fried spring rolls from the Philippines) to Shanghai Soup Dumplings (delicate thin-skinned dumplings filled with hot broth and succulent pork) to Gulab Jamun (India's rich, syrupy sweets).

Organized according to type (wheat pastas, skins, buns, and pastries; translucent wheat and tapioca preparations; rice dumplings; legumes and tubers; sweet dumplings), Asian Dumplings covers Eastern, Southeastern, and Southern Asia, with recipes from China, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Tibet, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Throughout, Nguyen shares the best techniques for shaping, filling, cooking, and serving each kind of dumpling. Plus she makes it easy to incorporate dumplings into your life by giving a thorough introduction to essential equipment and ingredients and o…