Pictures of Asian Ingredients for when you Visit your Asian Grocery Store
Love Asian cuisine but don’t cook it because you can’t identify ingredients? Our guide includes pictures to help you when you visit an Asian grocery store.
Don’t be nervous about cooking Asian cuisine, get the guide now to help you source your ingredients.
Cooking Asian cuisine is easier than you think. And when you can confidently identify Asian ingredients it makes shopping a breeze when you visit your local, Asian Grocery Store or Asian Market.
Asian spices, Asian sauces, fresh Asian ingredients and staples, our guide to Asian cuisine covers it all.
Your guide to Asian ingredients contains:
- a description of the ingredient, along with how and where it is used,
- the health benefits of the ingredient,
- pictures of many of the less commonly known Asian herbs, spices, fruits and vegetables.
Don’t be put off cooking Asian cuisine at home because you are nervous about identifying the ingredients. Our Asian cuisine guide will help when you visit your local, Asian supermarket. Then your cooking experience will become a positive one.
Free Printable Shopping Lists for Asian Cuisines
Our 3rd Volume of Asian Cuisine: Your Guide to Asian Ingredients, covers the countries of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
To assist you in your visit to your local Asian grocery store, our bundled download includes separate, printable shopping lists for:
- Vietnam,
- Thailand,
- Cambodia and Laos.
So, we will add new shopping lists as we cover more countries within Asia on Compass & Fork. The Asian Cuisine shopping lists include all of the ingredients you will need to cook the recipes featured on Compass & Fork.
You can find all the recipes for Vietnam here, Thailand here and Cambodia and Laos here. We encourage you to join us as we add more Asian cuisines.
About Asian Cuisine
Asian cooking is a very broad definition of varied cooking styles. It encompasses Thai, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Indian, Malaysian, Sri Lankan, Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, Mongolian, Indonesian and Singaporean cuisine. And, I am sure I have forgotten or missed a few.
If you aren’t already cooking Asian-style food at home, you don’t know what you’re missing! If you are, perhaps you are looking to improve or add some variations? Regardless, our FREE guide, Asian Cooking Essentials, can help! The benefits of Asian cuisine:
- It is quick
- It is easy
- It is healthy
- It uses fresh ingredients.
- It’s great if you have dietary restrictions! So, Asian cuisine woks for vegetarians, vegans, gluten free, paleo and many more diets.
If you are not familiar with it, maybe it is time to get started!
We are not professional chefs. Therefore, we wrote the Asian Ingredients guide with the home cook in mind.
More on Compass & Fork
Don’t have an Asian grocery store by you?
We feature many of the Asian ingredients and tools for Asian cooking in the Compass & Fork Shop. Therefore, if you live somewhere where these ingredients are hard to find, you can have many of them home delivered. If you are unfamiliar with Asian ingredients, both the guide and the Compass & Fork Shop display the packing and/or a picture of the item. So, then you know what you are trying to find. Sometimes a picture goes a long way!
And if you are not a fan of cooking, maybe you’re a fan of eating! So, learning more about Asian cuisine and culture behind it can add a new dimension to your meals.
To start, just enter your name and email in the box below and download the Asian Cuisine Guide. At the same time you’ll receive access to the specialty shopping lists.