Tasty Sauces for Cooking

Sauces are an essential part of cooking that not only add texture and flavour to a dish but also help to adjust the taste. For those who are not good at using seasonings to fine tune the flavour of a dish, using a variety of sauces can help solve these problems. In this cookbook, Chef Andrew introduces eight essential sauces for cooking, including XO Mushroom Sauce, Sambal Chili Sauce, Zhejiang Sauce, Special Flavoured Sauce, All-Purpose Steaming Sauce, Sweet and Sour Sauce, Slow-braising Sauce and Nyonya Sauce. Each sauce is easy to learn and can be used indefinitely. Once you master these basic sauces, you can use them with different cooking methods such as steaming, stir-frying, deep-frying and slow-braising to create many delicious dishes. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced cook, this cookbook will give you plenty of culinary inspiration and practical tips to take your cooking to the next level!

4 About Andrew Kow 6 Common Ingredients for Making Sauces XO Mushroom Sauce 10 Stir-fried Tempeh, Stinky Bean and Winged Bean with XO Mushroom Sauce 12 Stir-fried Bitter Gourd with XO Mushroom Sauce 14 Stir-fried Roasted Pork and Celery with XO Mushroom Sauce 16 Steamed Cod Fish with XO Mushroom Sauce 18 Stir-fried Mixed Vegetables and Bean Curd with XO Mushroom Sauce 20 Stir-fried Eggplant with XO Mushroom Sauce Sambal Chili Sauce 24 Sambal Chili Sliced Fish 26 Sambal Chili Chicken 28 Sambal Chili Squid 30 Sambal Chili Pork Trotter 32 Sambal Grilled Fish 34 Sambal Prawn and Stinky Bean Zhejiang Sauce 38 Zhejiang Pork Ribs 40 Zhejiang Cereal Chicken Chop 42 Zhejiang Pork Fillet and Capsicums 44 Zhejiang Pork Patty 46 Crispy Zhejiang Lotus Root Special Flavoured Sauce 50 Stir-fried Flower Crab, Prawn and Squid with Special Flavoured Sauce 52 Boxing Chicken with Special Flavoured Sauce 54 Mango and Lychee Chicken with Special Flavoured Sauce 56 Fish Tail and Tomato with Special Flavoured Sauce 58 Crispy King Oyster Mushroom with Special Flavoured Sauce 60 Stir-fried Pork Butt with Special Flavoured Sauce All-purpose Steaming Sauce 64 Steamed Chicken with Chinese Herbs 66 Steamed Fish with Olive and Peanut 68 Steamed Broccoli and Cauliflower with Lotus Root 70 Steamed Sliced Fish with Chinese Mushroom and Dried Tangerine Peel 72 Steamed Prawn with Pineapple 74 Steamed Fish with Bamboo Cane 76 Steamed Winter Melon and Bean Curd with Dried Shrimp Sweet and Sour Sauce 80 Sweet and Sour Sea Cucumber and Fish Maw 82 Sweet and Sour Three-coloured Meatball 85 Sweet and Sour Seafood Bean Curd 88 Sweet and Sour Golden Prawn 90 Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs 92 Sweet and Sour Flower Crab Slow-braising Sauce 96 Slow-braised Pork Belly 98 Slow-braised Peanut 100 Slow-braised Chicken Wing 102 Slow-braised Pig Stomach, Egg and Bean Curd 104 Slow-braised Duck 106 Slow-braised Cuttlefish 108 Slow-braised Pork Trotter Nyonya Sauce 112 Nyonya Acar 114 Nyonya Kapitan Chicken Curry 116 Nyonya Pork Belly 118 Nyonya Dry-fried Short Rice Noodle 120 Nyonya Coconut Milk Duck Curry 122 Nyonya Grilled Pandan Fish 124 Nyonya Pineapple Salted Fish Curry