Spicy and Delicious Menu

Author: Lin Qingcha
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: Colors include red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple; flavors include sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, umami, and salty. Life is also equally rich with seven colors and seven flavors. On the long journey of life, there is always a color and a taste that accompanies you, resonates with you. The Spicy and Delicious Menu lets you find your own taste and savor the colorful journey of life! In this book, we not only provide nutritional information on various seasonings, hoping readers enjoy delicious and healthy meals, but also detail their flavors and textures. For example, ingredients like scallions, ginger, garlic, red chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, cilantro, pepper, five-spice powder, spicy bean paste, fermented black beans, and tangerine peel are common and frequently used natural spices in households. As long as you clearly understand their characteristics and cooking tips, you can easily mix and match them to create various blends and prepare a variety of spicy and delicious dishes.
To help readers better grasp the flavor variations of these seasonings, we have also summarized 12 commonly used household sauces, each with distinct flavors: spicy and numbing, sour and spicy, home-style, fish-flavored, Kung Pao-style, red oil-style, bean paste-style, sweet and sour, tangerine peel-style, curry-style, garlic paste-style, and peculiar flavor, among others. For each sauce, we have selected many representative dishes as demonstrations, such as Ants Climbing a Tree for bean paste-style, Red Oil Dumplings for red oil-style, Fish-Fragrant Pork for fish-flavored, and Tibetan Curry Beef for curry-style. In total, there are nearly 100 dishes, which we believe will not only satisfy readers visually but also leave their taste buds both delighted and nourished!