Ginger

In Asian cooking, we use both young and old ginger.

Young ginger is light in color and often comes with some green stem attached. It is often pickled and eaten with other food. You've probably seen it served with sushi - it is the pink one. It can also be pickled with other vegetables like eggplants and cucumber and served with rice.

The old ginger is used in various cooking. Often in Chinese cooking, it is julienne and tossed in with garlic for stir fried dishes.

I have seen ginger listed as an ingredient on a Thai curry made by a US based company.  That horrifies me!  There is no ginger in any of the curry pastes!!!

Recipes made with ginger

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  Baked Shrimp in Clear Noodles

  Goong Ob Woonsen

  Shrimp baked in garlic, pepper, cilantro and clear noodles

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  Ginger and Chicken Stir Fry

  Stir fried chicken with julienned ginger and wood ear mushrooms.

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  Chicken on Rice with Hot Yellow Bean Sauce

  Kow Mun Gai

  Chicken on rice cooked in chicken broth served with spicy soy bean sauce

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  Hot Yellow Bean Sauce

  Nam Jim Kow Mun Gai

  It's this spicy sauce that makes the dish!

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  Oxtail Soup

  Soop Hang Woa

  Clear spicy and sour oxtail soup. 

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