Quick & Easy Chinese: 70 Everyday Recipes

by Nancie McDermott and Chronicle Books LLC Staff

Book Overview

Throw away that take-out menu and turn to one of the recipes in this wonderful new cookbook. Using readily available ingredients and a few simple techniques, Quick & Easy Chinese brings the delicious flavors of Asia into anyone'skitchen. Included are many familiar restaurant classics like Cashew Chicken, Hot and Sour Soup, and even Fortune Cookies--all simplified for easy home cooking. With a wide range of appetizers, soups, entrees, drinks,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811859304
• ISBN13: 9780811859301
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Very tasty!

After making several recipes from this cookbook, I am very happy that I purchased it. My first try was sweet and sour pork and we really enjoyed it. That was followed by orange beef which was also a big hit. Some might complain that these recipes are not completely authentic. For example, neither the sweet and sour pork nor the lemon chicken are breaded and deep fried. Instead they are sauted in the wok, but I found the result delicious. I think the goal is to make preparation simpler and the result healthier and I prefer them this way so it really isn't a negative for me. Though there are only 70 recipes, they include good suggestions for beef, chicken, pork, shrimp, fish, and vegetable side dishes. The recipes are illustrated with beautiful color photograpy and most of the ingredients can be found in a good chain grocery store with an international aisle. A few things, for example Asian vegetables such as bok choy, will be found more easily or more cheaply at an Asian grocery if you have one nearby. If you don't, substitute napa cabbage for bok choy and young string beans for long beans and the result will still be very tasty.

Finally buying it so the library can have their copy back

I LOVE this cookbook. It meets all my qualifications for a good cookbook -- simple to follow, desirable recipes, great results, beautiful photography. The ingredients were easy to find and the food turned out exactly as I hoped without a lot of effort. The author didn't just make it possible for me to follow her directions, she taught me basic principles of how Chinese food is generally made that I can apply across my cooking. I highly recommend it.

Fantastic & Highly Recommended!

I have this book, as well as the Vietnamese & Thai versions and I love them all! The recipes are delicious and easy to follow. I've recommended all 3 books to many people and will continue to do so :)

The Americanized Chinese dishes that you love.

This cookbook is for those who love Chinese food made the American way. There are 70+ recipes and it is all your favorites. This would make a great wedding present combined with a wok. I made the soy sauce chicken wings on page 27 and they were fabulous. I needed to increase the sauce because the suggested amount was not nearly enough. I also had the hot and sour soup. It was still a good soup, just different then I've had before. It had the Kung Pao, Szechuan, 5 spice, etc...all the typical American favorites. The picture on the cover is the Kung Pao Chicken, it's not a very appetizing picture but the dish itself was very good. There are pictures of some of the dishes, the pages are thick and glossy, you'd be able to wipe off spills easy enough. The chapters are divided into beef, pork, chicken, fish and then vegetables and rice chapters. The fried rice with shrimp and peas was very good.

the book I have been looking for!

This is the book on Chinese cooking that I have been looking for. All the dishes you love to eat in the restrauants, and for take out. Wonderful for those of us with no take out worthy of eating. Easy and flavorfull. The cover recipe is delicious... Kung Pao Chicken. Mongolian Beef is divine, but you need to double or triple the sauce. Lemmon Chicken is easy and fantastic as is the Shrimp with Zucchini and Sweet Red Peppers. They are all here..Orange beef, Pepper Steak, Chicken with Cashews, Moo Goo gai Pan, Pot stickers, Mu Shu Pork, and all are tasty and easy to make in an American kitchen. No pretenses to be authentic. Just extremely good American Chinese.... Like P.F.Chang's... I can't reccomend it highly enough.