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 Fruit Sauces, Cooking Spices, and Cooking Ingredients for Asian Food
Thanks to the rising popularity of Asian cooking, many of the once-exotic cooking spices, fruit and chili sauces, pastes and other ingredients are now readily available in your local supermarket. You can also find them in Asian markets that cater to a specific country or region. The variety of cooking sauces and ingredients in Asian cuisine is enormous, but the following short list is a must for a well-stocked Asian pantry.
TERM:
Chili sauces
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DEFINITION:
There are several styles and most can be used interchangeably. Fine Chinese chili sauce is made from ground chilies and is similar to Tabasco but slightly thicker. A coarser, thicker Chinese chili sauce made of crushed chilies often contains ginger and fermented black beans. Chili garlic sauce is regular ground chili with minced garlic. Sweet chili sauce is slightly transparent and contains garlic, sugar, vinegar and salt.
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Asian Recipes