Bunashimeji mushrooms are often eaten with stir-fried foods including wild game and seafood. They are also used in soups, stews and sauces. When prepared alone, bunashimeji mushrooms can be sautéed as a whole, including the stem or stalk (only the very end cut off), using a higher temperature; or, they can be slow roasted on a low temperature with a small...
Bunashimeji mushrooms are often eaten with stir-fried foods including wild game and seafood. They are also used in soups, stews and sauces. When prepared alone, bunashimeji mushrooms can be sautéed as a whole, including the stem or stalk (only the very end cut off), using a higher temperature; or, they can be slow roasted on a low temperature with a small...
Taro root is present in many Indian and South East Asian dishes. High in starchy carbohydrates, taro roots look similar to small, brown knobbly potatoes. The root works in both savory and sweet dishes, though it's best in main dishes.
Peta beans are commonly stir fried in curry paste and paired with other robust ingredients like garlic, chillies, and shrimp paste.
Thai eggplants are essential ingredients in Thai curry dishes such as in kaeng tai pla, green and red curry. They are often halved or quartered, but can also be used whole, and cooked in the curry sauce where they become softer and absorb the flavor of the sauce. They are also eaten raw in Thai salads or with Thai chili pastes (nam phrik).
Galangal is a root from the ginger family that looks a bit like a knobbly Jerusalem artichoke. It is widely used in South-East Asian cuisine, particularly Thai cookery and is an important ingredient in Thai curry pastes.
Ginger is a fiery root with rough beige skin and hard, juicy, pale yellow flesh. The fresh, juicy root has a sweetly pungent taste and a perfume-like scent that makes it suitable for sweet or savoury dishes.
Also known as a christophine, mirlitine, cho cho and vegetable pear, the chayote is a pale-green, furrowed, pear-shaped fruit with pale cucumber-like flesh that surrounds a single seed.
The young, tender sprouts of germinated beans, beansprouts are nutritious, white and crunchy.
Small aubergine is used in different Asian cuisines. In Chinese cuisine the eggplant is stewed, stuffed, braised and steamed. In Thailand the eggplant is known as Makhua Pro and can be found in the famous dish Thai Green Curry.
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