What to Cook with Sesame oil – Tasty Recipes to Try
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Recipes with Sesame oil
This dish will definitely make your kitchen smells heavenly with scallion and garlic. Worth a try!
This dish features tender pangasius fillets steamed on a bed of vermicelli—a harmonious blend of smooth and chewy textures. The aroma of garlic and seafood sauce adds a light savory touch, while a drizzle of hot oil gives the dish a seductive sheen and aroma. It's perfect served warm as a healthy and light main dish.
A savory pork patty mixed with soaked chai poh (Chinese preserved radish) is steamed for 8 minutes, then blanketed in a smooth egg-to-water mixture (1:1.5 ratio) and steamed another 7 minutes. The result is a layered dish of umami-rich pork and creamy custard-like egg, finished with a drizzle of sesame oil and a sprinkle of green onions.
This Korean-style chicken features chicken pieces that are deep-fried until golden brown, then coated in a signature Korean sauce—a combination of soy sauce, mirin, garlic, sesame oil, corn syrup, sugar, and dried chili flakes—that imparts a sweet, savory, and slightly spicy flavor. The texture is tantalizing: the chicken is crispy on the outside, but the sauce layer remains slippery and rich. The aromas of garlic and sesame oil blend together beautifully, while a sprinkling of fresh scallions adds freshness and a pop of color. This dish is the perfect blend of bold Korean flavors and the familiarity of fried chicken—perfect as a special snack or a fun main course.
An elegant dish featuring thinly sliced beef wrapped neatly around fresh asparagus stalks—resulting in a delicious combination of the meat's chewy texture and the asparagus's crunch. Served with a rich sauce (soy sauce, oyster sauce, and a touch of sesame oil), this dish offers an enticing savory finish. Perfect as a main dish for special occasions or to add variety to everyday meals.
Nasi Lobak is a savory rice dish that combines white rice with sautéed radish with spiced chicken and dried shrimp. The aroma comes from a blend of garlic, ginger, and sesame oil, while oyster sauce and white pepper provide a distinctive umami flavor. The cooking process involves sautéing the ingredients until fragrant before cooking them with the rice in a rice cooker, resulting in a soft and flavorful rice texture.
This recipe calls for savory-sweet beef rolls filled with enoki mushrooms and scallions. Thinly sliced beef is seasoned with ginger, garlic, chili powder, salt, pepper, tapioca starch, oyster sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, and sugar, then topped with lightly blanched enoki mushrooms and sliced scallions before being rolled tightly. The rolls are fried over low heat until golden brown, then topped with the remaining sauce (soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, spices, and flour) until it thickens to a glossy finish. Finally, a sprinkling of fresh sliced scallions and a dash of chili powder adds a touch of spice. The result is tender meat with a soft mushroom core and a sticky, umami-infused sauce—perfect as a party appetizer or main dish.
Sliced lotus root holds a spiced minced meat filling, creating a harmony of crunch and tenderness in one bite. Aromas of garlic, ginger, and sesame oil spread warmth, while the fragrant sauce that seeps into the root's crevices adds layers of sweet, savory, and slightly spicy flavors. Each piece emerges golden with a textural sensation—crispy on the outside, soft on the inside—making for an earthy yet alluring dish, perfect for a flavorful and hearty meal.
The tender core of chicken siumai, scented with garlic and sesame oil, is wrapped in a thin, fragrant blanket of Chinese cabbage, creating a tantalizing combination of textures: soft on the inside, fluffy on the outside. When steamed, the cabbage softens with a warm sheen, while the warm steam combines with the siumai spices, inviting a delicious aroma into the air. The first bite melts in your mouth, bringing with it the sensation of a comforting yet enticing home-cooked meal. This dish is simple yet elegant, ideal for a light yet memorable meal.
Sichuan and Chongqing special cold noodles, both delicious and beautiful. The noodles are chewy and chewy, paired with crisp bean sprouts, sweet cucumber shreds, and crispy peanuts, with rich taste. The sauce is the soul, with bright red chili oil and spicy pepper powder as the base, soy sauce to enhance the freshness, balsamic vinegar to add acidity, minced garlic and chopped green onions to stimulate the aroma, spicy, fresh, fragrant and sour interweaving, with a rich taste. Sichuan and Chongqing tourism is hot, and cold noodles have become a must-try delicacy, especially in the bustling food square, where bowls of cold noodles are placed on the stalls, and the noodles are piled into a small mountain, with red, green, yellow and white staggered, and the appearance is eye-catching. Tourists sit around and taste it, sweating from the spiciness but still unable to stop, becoming a bright business card for Sichuan and Chongqing's food culture.