Cooking Ingredients Glossary
Vegetables, meat and seafood are some of the broad categories of food ingredients commonly found in cooking recipes. However, the variety of items within each of these broad categories is wide, and you may be wondering what some of them are.
Other than these, many different types of sauces and seasonings are available in the market to help you enhance the taste of your food and make them more appetizing.With the wide variety of food items and sauces available in the market, some of which have different names around the world, are you confused and wondering what you need to get for your recipes? In addition, how do you go about buying fresh or good quality stuff during your shopping trips? Cheer up! Here, you will find information and photographs of various food items, as well as some simple tips on how to choose them. The list below is arranged in ascending alphabetical order for your ease of searching. Click on the relevant link to learn more about the ingredient you are looking for.
A - C - Anchovies - Asparagus - Bai Guo - Bai Mu Er - Bean curd - Bean sprouts - Bitter gourd - Broccoli - Cai Xin - Carrot - Chicken eggs - Cashew nuts - Chinese dates - Chinese parsley - Choy Sum/ Chye Sim - Cilantro/ Coriander - Cong
D - F - Dried Longan/ Lungan/ Dragon Eye - Dried prawns - Dried red dates - Eggs - Fresh fish
G - I - Ginkgo nuts/ Gingko nuts - Honey rock sugar - Ikan bilis
J - L - Jujube - Lu Sun/ Lou Shun - Lotus seeds (Lian Zi) - Lotus root (Lian Ou)
M - O - Nai Bai vegetables
P - R - Peh Kuey - Prawn - Red date
S - U - Shi Feng Tang - Silver Ear/ Silver Fungus/ Silver Tree Ear Fungus/ Snow Fungus - Spinach - Spring onion - Sweet potato - Taro - Tofu
V - X - White fungus/ white tree ear fungus
Y - Z - Yam
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