Modern Asian Baking at Home: Essential Sweet and Savory Recipes for Milk Bread, Mochi, Mooncakes, and More; Inspired by the Subtle Asian Baking Community

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From the Subtle Asian Baking community comes, Modern Asian Baking at Home, must-have recipes for beloved sweet and savory treats found across Asia.

Explore new ingredients, surprising techniques, and interesting textures through lush photography and rewarding recipes that include exciting yet familiar contemporary bakes with innovative Asian twists. The results are unforgettable delights like miso-mochi brownies and spicy gochujang flourless chocolate cake. There’s even a recipe for homemade boba!

This is the perfect cookbook for anyone nostalgic for Asian desserts as well as hobbyist and avid home bakers interested in using vibrant ingredients like miso, matcha, pandan, and soy sauce to expand their repertoires. No passport is needed when you can easily create and experience popular Asian sweets and one-of-a-kind Asian-influenced drinks, custards, cakes, and frozen treats at home.

Recipes include:
Quick Microwave MochiFluffy Japanese PancakesLemony Matcha MacaronsTangzhong Milk BreadVietnamese Egg Dalgona Coffee
Steam, fry, boil, and bake your way through this straight-from-the-heart collection of recipes!

This book is #veryasian

From the Publisher

Basics and Confections

The recipes here also introduce a texture or ingredient unique to Asian baking. For example, with my Greatest Ube Halaya Jam recipe (page 28), we’ll make a lovely purple spread using a special ingredient from the Philippines: ube

Night Market Scallion Pancakes

One would think these addictively crispy and flaky scallion pancakes are straight from the night markets across Asia. Enjoy them as a snack or appetizer. Dip them in a sauce made with equal parts soy sauce and black vinegar.

Pillowy Steamed Buns

Legend has it that mantou, or Chinese steamed buns, once saved the lives of at least fifty men, thanks to the quick wit of Zhuge Liang, a strategist famous in Chinese history. Zhuge Liang had steamed buns made to resemble and replace human heads that needed to be sacrificed to appease a river deity. While mantou sounds like “barbarian’s head” in Chinese, fret not! These soft and fluffy vegetarian buns are not made for cannibals, and they can be made vegan if you substitute the milk with plant-based milk.

Velvety Nama Chocolates

These confections are the epitome of perfect velvety chocolate truffles. I love biting into a soft nama chocolate and letting the ganache melt on my tongue. I’m a sucker for anything comforting and delicious yet simply made.

Berry Matcha Cream Bars

One bite of these dreamy creamy bars and I’m transported to Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo during the springtime when sakura are in full bloom. This berry cream layer atop a buttery and earthy shortbread combo is, without a doubt, a matcha made in heaven.

Lemony Matcha Macarons

When I first started baking, I was obsessed with perfecting macarons. I had little success until SAB member Rebekah Yau introduced me to the Swiss Meringue Method. It turns out that heating egg whites along with sugar results in more stable, more foolproof macarons!

No-Knead Miso Focaccia

This crispy yet chewy focaccia is as umamiful as it is impressive. It’s also ridiculously easy to make. Other than time, it kneads little from us bakers. This recipe is inspired by one found on SAB by George Lee (@chez.jorge on Instagram). George equates fresh-out-of-the oven focaccia to a warm, loving embrace. I can’t agree more!

Heartwarming Lava Tangyuan

Ever since the Song Dynasty, during the Winter Solstice, families would make and eat tangyuan (soup ball) together, as tangyuan symbolizes harmony and togetherness. Here, we fill our tangyuan with matcha chocolate that oozes like verdant lava when hot. Bet you this dish can warm even the Grinch’s heart.

Snowy Skin Mooncake

With this fun and customizable recipe, we can make and enjoy beautiful Snowy Skin Mooncakes of any color, any day, and not just during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Start with this salted egg yolk custard filling. Then, try a different filling, like ube halaya jam.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quarry Books (July 26, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0760374287
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0760374283
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.59 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.85 x 0.65 x 9.65 inches