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The soybean (U.S.) or soya bean (UK) (Glycine max)[2] is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean which has numerous uses. The plant is classed as an oilseed rather than a pulse by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).

Fat-free (defatted) soybean meal is a significant and cheap source of protein for animal feeds and many prepackaged meals;soy vegetable oil is another product of processing the soybean crop. For example, soybean products such as textured vegetable protein are ingredients in many meat and dairy analogues. Soybeans produce significantly more protein per acre than most other uses of land.

Traditional nonfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, and from the latter tofu and tofu skin. Fermented foods include soy sauce, fermented bean paste, natto, and tempeh, among others. The oil is used in many industrial applications.

The term also refers to its seeds, which are one of the richest natural food. It contains a large amount of protein, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins A and B, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc and iron.

Soybeans in food is used, especially in China and Japan, in several forms:

– Soybean meal is rich in protein and low in carbohydrates. It is often mixed with other flours.
– The tonyu or soy milk is a drink, non-dairy, high protein, low in fat and cholesterol and calcium.
– Soybean oil is an excellent edible oil, containing a fairly balanced ratio of omega-6 and omega-3 or 6.7 – the ideal ratio is 5, according to AFSSA12. Unsaturated fatty acids are relatively sensitive to temperature, and carcinogenic polycyclic string builders to cooking temperature (benzopyrenes), this oil should not be used for frying.
– Tofu is made from soy milk, which, once curd, gives a puree, transformed itself into a kind of cheese that can be used soft, firm or fried.
– Tempeh is made from fermented seeds and has a firmer texture than tofu.
– Natto is made from fermented seeds and has a rather sticky consistency.
– Miso is made from a fermented soybean paste and can be used in soups, sauces and as a flavoring.
– The shoyu, commonly known as “soy sauce” is a sauce made from fermented soybeans and a grain roasted, fermented and aged, with a milder taste than the tamari.
– Tamari is a fermented soy sauce without wheat, stronger taste than the Shoyu.
– The Edamame are immature green soybeans, boiled or steamed.

His interest is to be a dietary source of protein non-meat.

Curried chicken thighs

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Ingrédients :

  • 8 small chicken thighs
  • 3 teaspoons of curry powder
  • 1 teaspoon of ground cardamom
  • 1 lime
  • 2 shallots
  • 1 red chilli
  • 2 teaspoons of soybean oil
  • salt

Préparation :

Mince the shallots and red chili and set aside.

Heat the oil and fry the shallots, then add the chicken thighs and let them brown.

Add lemon juice, chili, cardamom and curry and mix well and cook for 20 minutes.

Salt and serve hot accompanied by white rice.

Tip : You can serve the chicken thighs with some pineapple slices that you do brown on each side in a pan with a little butter.

Butterfly shrimp – Feng Wei Xia

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Ingrédients :

  • 500 g of raw shrimp
  • 1 teaspoon of ground Sichuan pepper
  • 1 tablespoon of light soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon of rice wine or dry sherry
  • 2 teaspoons of cornstarch mixed with a little water
  • Oil for frying
  • 2 eggs
  • 5 tablespoons of bread crumbs
  • 10 g of spring onions
  • a few lettuce leaves

Préparation :

Shell the prawns leaving the tails. Cut them into 2 in lengthwise on the belly, leaving the tails firmly attached.

In a bowl marinate the prawns with pepper, the soy sauce, the rice wine and cornstarch for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, heat oil on medium heat in a deep fryer to a medium temperature.

Beat eggs slightly, dip except the tail, prawns one by one in the egg and then roll them in bread crumbs.

Gently place the prawns in oil and fry until nicely browned. Remove them and drain them on absorbent paper.

Place them on a bed of lettuce and garnish with scallions.

Serve hot with white rice and a spicy or sweet and sour sauce.

Tip : You can also replace the salad by the crispy seaweed (fried) and replace prawns with shrimps.

Soy noodles to salmon with vegetables

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Ingrédients :

  • 200 g of japanese soy noddles
  • 200 g of salmon
  • 50 g of bean sprouts
  • ½ white cabbage
  • 1 carrot
  • 7 cl of soy sauce
  • 3 tablespoons of sesame oil

Préparation :

Cook the noodles according to cooking instructions on the package. Drain and rinse under cold water and reserve.

Peel and cut into julienne carrots and the cabbage into strips and set aside.

Cut salmon into cubes and set aside.

Heat a wok over high heat, put the sesame oil, bean sprouts, vegetables and salmon and cook, stirring gently to not break the salmon.

Add soy sauce and noodles and cook 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Serve.

Tip : You can replace the salmon with beef and to add more vegetables to choices .

Pork with Szechuan sauce

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Ingrédients :

  • 320 g of pork
  • 1 tablespoons of sake
  • 1 ½ teaspoons of cornstarch flour
  • 2 teaspoons of salt
  • 5 tablespoons of soy oil
  • 1 large onion
  • 1 box of peas
  • 1 green and red pepper
  • 50 g of pineapple in syrup
  • oil

For the batter:

  • 3 tablespoons of water
  • 2 ½ of flour
  • 2 teaspoons of cornstarch
  • 1 egg beaten

For the sauce:

  • 2 tablespoon of soy sauce
  • 3 ½ tablespoons of rice vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons of sugar
  • 15 cl of water
  • 2 ½ tablespoons of tomato ketchup
  • 1 teaspoon of cornstarch

Préparation :

Cut pork into cubes, the pepper into 2 cm pieces and onion in 2 and 4.

Drain the peas and pineapple and then cut into 2 cm pieces.

In a bowl put salt, rice wine, cornstarch flour, and pork meat then mix and let marinate 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, prepare the sauce and set aside.

Then prepare the batter by mixing all ingredients, then set aside.

Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a wok over high heat.

Put the pork in the batter, stir to coat well then adding them to the wok and lightly brown 3 to 4 minutes on high heat, stirring occasionally. Add onion, peppers, peas and pineapple and stir and let simmer for 2 minutes on medium heat.

Transfer the mixture into a container, put back 2 tablespoons of oil in wok, then add the sauce and cook 3 minutes on medium heat.

Put back the meat and vegetables in the wok, then cook the preparation for 2 minutes and serve hot with white rice.

Tips : You can add carrots or cashews to your taste.

Anecdotes : Beef is more widespread than elsewhere, and is often cooked until it becomes a great tenderness. Sometimes the beef is sprinkled with rice flour before the steaming, to produce a more rich sauce. Sichuan cuisine, known for its tangy and spicy taste, is one of eight major regional cuisines of China, sometimes grouped into four families. It is often compared to the Hunan cuisine or that Hubei, due to proximity culinary, cultural and linguistic these three provinces.

Pork in sweet and sour sauce

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Ingrédients :

  • 320 g of slices of pork
  • 100 g of lychees
  • 100 g of onions
  • 100 g of bamboo shoots
  • 10 cl of soybean oil

The marinade :

  • 1 ½ tablespoons of sake
  • 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
  • salt and pepper

Sauce :

  • 1 ½ tablespoons of soy sauce
  • 2 ½ tablespoons of rice vinegar
  • 40 g of sugar
  • 1 ½ tablespoons of sake
  • 16 cl of water
  • 1 ½ tablespoon of tomato paste
  • 1 teaspoon of cornstarch dissolved in a little water

Préparation :

Prepare the marinade then add the meat, mix well and marinate for 10 minutes.
Cut the onion and litchi in small pieces, then the bamboo of julienne.
Prepare the sauce by mixing all the ingredients and set aside.
Heat oil in a wok over high heat, then brown the pork, add the onion and bamboo shoots, stir and cook for 2 minutes covered.
Add lychees, stir and cook for 1 minutes always covered. Transfer to another bowl and set aside.
Pour the sauce into the wok and cook 3 minutes over medium heat, add the meat and the remaining ingredients and mix well so that everything is well blended.
Serve with white rice.

Tips : you can replace the lychee with pineapple.

Anecdotes : The sweet and sour pork is one of 10 dishes representative of Canton, and is very appreciate.
For Cantonese cuisine which is one of the “eight major regional cuisines of China,” sometimes grouped into four major families, is often considered the best in China, even in Asia. Among the regional Chinese cuisines, the Cantonese cuisine is the best known internationally.

Lau bo – Vietnamese fondue

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Ingredients :

  • 20 cl of water
  • 20 cl of rice vinegar
  • 600 g of beef tenderloin
  • 200 g of peeled shrimp
  • 150 g of shiitake mushrooms
  • 150 g of bean sprouts
  • 1 package of rice cakes
  • 1 package of rice noodles
  • 1 can of coconut milk
  • 2 carrots
  • 1 can of pineapple
  • 2 onion
  • 1 lime
  • 1 lettuce
  • 10 g of Chinese chives
  • 10 g of parsley
  • 3 tablespoons of sugar
  • 1 teaspoon of salt

Preparation :

Soak noodles 15 minutes in cold water, then drain and set aside. Cut into 4 pieces the rice cakes.

Cut meat into thin slices. Make a small cut on the back of the shrimp and remove the black vein and put aside.

Peel carrots and cut into sticks, chopped parsley, cut the mushrooms and onion in thick slices, then Chinese spring onion of into strips 5 cm and lettuce into strips of 10 cm.

Put the onion slices over the shrimp and the beef for flavoring . The rest of onion be served in to the broth.

Boil water in a saucepan, then put the noodles to cook for 2 minutes, drain. Arrange the noodles on a presentation plate.

In a fondue pot, combine rice vinegar, sugar, salt, coconut juice, water and remaining onion.
Taste and adjust salt, sugar or vinegar, knowing that the broth should be slightly acidic, and slightly salty. If you find that the taste of vinegar is too strong, add a little water.

Drain the pineapple and cut into small pieces and then chop coarsely

Pour the contents of Mam Nem in a bowl, put the pineapple in the sauce, add the lemon juice and mix. Adjust according to your taste.

Put in the middle of the table the hot pot and the dishes containing vegetables, shrimp, meat and noodles (the fondue pot must be heated over medium heat for meal), also a bowl of hot water for soaking rice cakes.

Serve in a bowl mam nem sauce individually and use a plate for to roll the rice cake.

Place ingredients you want into the hot pot and cook for 5 minutes for shrimp, mushrooms and carrots but for beef, spring onions and Chinese vermicelli it only takes a few seconds.

Take a rice cake, soak in the bowl of warm water to rehydrate, then put on the plate, put some noodles, a salad leaf, vegetables and chunks of meat cooked on the rice cake.

Wind the rice cake, being careful not to tear and eat with the mam nem sauce.

Tips : you can replace the mam nem sauce to taste that strong enough for the sauce nuoc mam with a little chopped fresh ginger. For vegetables you can put Chinese cabbage, celery’s, tomatoes or cabbage flower according to your preference.
The Vietnamese keep the rest of soup for eat with rice vermicelli or Chinese noodles or instant noodles.

Pakoras de soja – donut soy

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Ingredients :

  • 150 g of soybeans
  • 1 small onion
  • 2 clove garlic
  • 2 teaspoons of ginger
  • few fresh coriander leaves
  • 1 tablespoon curry powder
  • 1 teaspoon of chili powder
  • 2 teaspoons of salt

Preparation :

Soak in a bowl for 3 h soybeans and drain, leaving a little water to facilitate mixing. Mix coarsely using an immersion blender until dough is not too fine.

Coarsely chopped garlic, cut the onion into small cubes and grated ginger and chopped cilantro.

Add to bowl with the soy bean paste, salt, curry, coriander, ginger, onion, garlic and pepper and mix.

Heat oil in a fryer. When the oil is hot dip the balls pakoras made ​​with a teaspoon and cook 5 minutes, turning occasionally.
When the pakoras its golden brown, drain on paper towels.

Serve as an appetizer served with a sauce of coriander or tamarind.

Tips : It is possible to make pakoras with eggplant, zucchini, potatoes and other vegetables.

Anecdotes : There is no Indian cuisine but the Indian cuisines, a wide variety. This is not usually in restaurants, but in families, which can discover the diversity of cuisines. Much of the population is vegetarian by choice, by tradition, or obligation. So we find a wide variety of vegetarian recipes using especially pulses (lentils, chickpeas, etc.) for their protein intake.

Typical Chinese fried rice

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Ingredients :

  • 3 cups of white rice
  • 6 cups of water
  • 10 raw shrimp pink
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 box of peas
  • 1 box of corn
  • 50 g of soy grows
  • 6 sprigs chives
  • 125 g of pork or ready lacquered Chinese sausages 4
  • 2 tablespoon of light soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • oil

Preparation :

Wash 3 to 4 times the rice and cook in a rice-cooker, for 3 cups of rice put 6 cups of water.

Drain and rinse the corn and the little peas and the growth of soybeans. Chop the stems of chinese chives.

Peel and wash the carrots and cut the small dice.

Cut small dice of the pork lacquered, if you take the Chinese sausage cooked before around 15 minutes in boiling water, dry thoroughly and cut into small dice. Set aside.

Shell the shrimp and made ​​a small cut on the back of the shrimp and remove the black vein.

Break eggs and beat them to make an omelet.

Heat wok over high heat, put oil then pour the egg and well spread for much faster cooking, then cut it into pieces and place in a plate and set aside.

Add a little oil in the wok and add the shrimp and saute until they change color, then add carrots, peas, corn, lacquered pork or Chinese sausages and finally growth of soybean. Let cook 2 to 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Add rice, pieces of omelette, the chives and soy sauce and stir so that all is well blended and season with salt.

Tips : For the fried rice you can use cooked rice let from yesterday, and various ingredients such as chicken, beef or duck, mushrooms, onions.

Anecdotes : The cantonese rice is called fried rice in China, it is a very popular dish in the Chinese world, as it is tasty and nutritious and can be economic or refined depending on the choice of ingredients.

Banh cuon – steamed stuffed rolls

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Ingredients :
stuffing:

  • 400 g of lean bacon, chopped
  • 5 shallots, finely chopped
  • 100 g of dried black mushrooms (soak in hot water and finely chopped)
  • 150 g of white radish cut into small dice
  • pepper, salt
  • sugar
  • oil
  • nuoc mam
  • glutamate

pancakes:

  • 150 g of rice flour
  • 75 ml of water

coaching:

  • Coriander
  • soy germ (passed in boiling water)

The sauce:

  • 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
  • 1 red chili chopped
  • 2 tablespoons of nuoc mam
  • 1 teaspoon of sugar
  • 3 teaspoons of vinegar
  • 18 cl of water

Preparation :

Soak black mushrooms in a bowl of hot water for 30 minutes, drain and cut into small pieces.

Cook shallots and set a little aside, then add the garlic, the radishes , pork, the black mushrooms, salt, pepper and a little bit of glutamate.

Mix 150 g of rice flour, 75 ml of water and a pinch of salt and mix until the dough is smooth.

Cook the pancakes as thinly as possible in a pan with a little oil .

Place the pancake on a plate, place 1 tablespoon of farce in the center gently roll it to make a small roll.

When all the rolls are made, cook in a steamer on the paper baking for 20 minutes, then sprinkle with fried shallots .

Make the sauce : Mix 2 tablespoons of nuoc mam, water, sugar, vinegar, garlic and chili.

Serve with the sauce, cilantro and bean sprouts.

Anecdotes : In Vietnamese culture, this dish is often eaten when changing moon. That is to say the full moon and new moon, this dish is often asked for breakfast and lunch.

Canh dau hu – soybean soup

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Ingredients :

  • 2 cups of chicken broth
  • 100 g of tofu
  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 1 spoon of fresh coriander leaves chopped
  • 1 green pepper
  • 1 red pepper

Preparation :
Cut the tofu and the chicken into pieces. Slice the peppers into slices of medium size.
Put the chicken broth in the refrigerator and when it is frozen remove the greasy film that lies on its surface and bring the broth to a boil. Add the chicken, peppers and tofu and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes. Once heated through, serve into bowls and sprinkle with coriander leaves.

Tips : Serve with small bowls of sauce and chillies finely chopped birds.

Anecdotes : This soup comes from the north of Vietnam. A meal in Vietnam usually includes a soup on the menu.

Popiah – spring roll

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Ingredients :
For 10 springrolls

For the pancakes:

  • 1 1/2 cups of water
  • 3 eggs
  • salt
  • 1 tablespoon of oil
  • 3/4 cup of flour

Sauce “tim cheong”:

  • a long red chile
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 2 tablespoon of plum sauce
  • 2 tablespoon of hoisin sauce

Stuffing Pan:

  • 2 tablespoon of oil
  • 5 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 tablespoons of fermented soybean paste (tau cheo)
  • 150 g of pork, diced
  • 500 g of jicama (or sweet peas) cut into julienne strips
  • 2 tablespoon of black soy sauce
  • 5 tablespoons of sugar
  • salt
  • 125 g deveined medium shrimp, cleaned
  • 250 g of firm cooked tofu cut thinly sliced ​​
  • 3 eggs, lightly beaten

Stuffing raw:

  • 8 to 10 leaves of green leaf lettuce, washed and dried
  • 1 cup of bean sprouts, rinsed and dried
  • 1 cup of Julienne cucumber
  • 2 green onions, chopped
  • 1/4 cup of coarsely chopped fresh coriander
  • 1/4 cup of fried shallots
  • 1/2 cup of chopped roasted peanuts
  • a fried of red onions

Preparation :

For the batter : Mix together water, eggs, salt and oil, add flour and mix well and let the dough rest for at least 1 hour.

To cook pancakes : Heat a skillet over medium heat, add 1/4 cup of batter and to spread, place the pan on the heat and cook until the cake comes off the sides.
It should be lightly browned then remove, repeat the operation with the rest of the dough. Stack the pancakes.

Wrap in plastic and keep covered until ready to serve, they can be stored in the refrigerator for 1 or 2 days.

For the sauce : Remove skin of the red chili, then remove the seed and slice. Peel and mince the garlic. Crush the chili, garlic and add the plum sauce and hoisin sauce. Reserve.

To cook the filling : Beat the eggs and cook to make an omelet. Cut into thin slices and set aside.

Use a mortar or a blender, mix garlic, onion and then add the fermented soy paste.
Add oil in a wok and sauté the mixture for 3 minutes to release flavors. Rinse the jicama, cut into julienne strips and add jicama, tofu, garlic, the shrimps and pork, cook for a few minutes.
Add soy sauce and sugar and cook about 15 minutes until the vegetables have made all their water.

To serve : Place all ingredients in the center of the table. Place the envelopes of popiah near of ingredients. Add a serving of bean sprouts (bangkuang), cilantro, onions, cucumbers, roasted peanuts and scallions, (the guests choose the ingredients according to taste), close the envelope by rolling then dip into the sauce.

Tips: The farce is very diverse in different places. The basic farce is vegetables that grow in the spring with meat and omelet finely cut. In some places, they also add noodles, Chinese sausage, cooked vegetables instead of those bleached, tofu, seafood, sticky rice …

Anecdotes: There are variations in most Asian countries like Indonesia and the Philipinnes is the “Lumpiang Sariwa” or Vietnam is “Bo Bia”. This recipe is found more in China, Taiwan, Singapore and in Malaysia.