Sunday, 6 June 2010

Cooking techniques with the wok

The wok is very versatile and can be used in a large number of cooking techniques like:

- Deep frying: Usually larger woks are used in order to reduce splashing, but you can use small woks for deep frying of small amounts of food or smaller items.

- Steaming: is done by using a dedicated wok for boiling water alongside with steaming baskets.

- Boiling: The wok is used for boiling water, soups, or rice.

- Braising: Braised dishes are commonly made using woks. The wok is especially useful if you’re reducing sauces.

- Smoking: Woks can be used for hot smoking food. You put the smoking material in the bottom of the wok while food is place on a rack above.

- Stewing: Woks are sometimes used for stewing as well, even though it is more common in Chinese cuisine to use stoneware or porcelain cookware for such purposes.

Woks are most commonly used for stir-frying.


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