We love Asian food at home, but there really is no such thing as ‘Asian cuisine’. A dish is either Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, etc. Of course there are fusion dishes or flavors that are similar, but it is too easy to lump everything together. As if …
We love Asian food at home, but there really is no such thing as ‘Asian cuisine’. A dish is either Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, etc. Of course there are fusion dishes or flavors that are similar, but it is too easy to lump everything together. As if you are talking about European cuisine and suddenly call a stew with tomato and grated mozzarella cheese a stew Margherita. Well, then you have all the dolls in Italy dancing ;-).
But secretly I also approach it too easily, if only by placing a category with ‘Asian recipes’ on my site, purely because many people look for their recipes that way. I am aware of this, but I will continue to do so for the latter reason and try to give more information in the text of the recipe or in some other way about the cuisine that inspired me or the country where the dish comes from.
And sometimes I just don’t know or just do something. And that’s fine too! Because there are so many delicious seasonings from Asian cuisine that you can cook with :-D. All that inspired me to make a weekly menu with Asian influences, enjoy!
In the weekly menu you will find fried miso eggplant with rice, Thai curry with bok choy and chicken balls, cauliflower kung pao, steak from the wok with shiitake and eggplant, char siu chicken with bok choy, nasi goreng and orange mango cake. Enjoy your meal!
Monday
Fried miso eggplant with rice
(Inspired by miso)
Tuesday
Curry with bok choy, chicken balls and cashew crumb
(Inspired by Thai cuisine)
Find more curry paste recipes here.
Wednesday
Cauliflower kung pao
(Inspired by Chinese cuisine)
Thursday
Beef steak from the wok with shiitake and eggplant
(Inspired by my wok and what I had left at home)
You can find more noodle recipes here.
Friday
Char siu chicken with bok choy and white rice
(Inspired by Chinese cuisine)
Saturday
Fried rice
(Inspired by Indonesian cuisine)
You can find more nasi recipes here.
Sunday
Orange mango cake
(Not inspired by anything. Since I don’t have any Asian dessert recipes on my site, I thought a cake with mango and orange would be the most fitting for this weekly menu ;-).
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