Asian Flair On The Holiday Menu

Asian Flair On The Holiday Menu Once again, it is that time of the year. Holiday season is here. Have your restaurants well prepared to add something new on the menu? What will you provide for a New Year’s Eve family dinner to tempt more customers to the door of your restaurant? While Asian restaurants have become one of America’s most popular dine-out preferences, many diners are always looking for new and exotic ways to celebrate the merry season with families and friends. The following offers some recipe ideas to dress up your menu for the holiday dining season. A Christmas without eating turkey is not a complete Christmas. So our first recipe suggested is a fragrant, summery dish that needs nothing more than a crisp salad and fresh rolls to make a satisfying supper: the Turkey Breasts with Orange Sauce. Blood oranges are a good choice for this dish, as they are very juicy and have a sharp edge to their flavor. If you cannot find blood oranges, then use ordinary ones instead. The Eight-treasure Duck, a classic holiday meal course for the Chinese, may serve as a perfect poultry entrée as turkey substitute on the menu. As the name implies, Eight-treasure Duck contains eight ingredients that suggest the festival spirits of special treat, abundance, merriness and good fortune. Featured here is the recipe written by celebrated chef Susanna Foo. Roast beef has always been a traditional holiday treat to the eyes of the Americans. Featuring an Asian-style roast beef entrée may be a good idea to allure holiday dinning traffic to your restaurants. Presented here, Peppercorn Roast Beef, is one of the most-beloved recipes from Martin Yan’s best-selling cookbook The Amazing Asian Wok! Fish is not a tradition for America’s holiday dinner table. However, when diners are looking to enjoy some glasses of fine wine, Salmon with Watercress Cream would greatly compliment the drinks, and offer a nice variety that most Asian restaurants seem not to readily have on the menu. Once a luxurious and expensive treat, salmon is now widely available at an affordable price as a result of fish farming. If you have the chance to buy wild salmon, do so, as it has an incomparable flavor and a finer texture. Notice our cook’s tip, fresh dill goes particularly well with fish, especially salmon, as it has a delicate aniseed flavor. It cannot withstand high temperatures, so is best used at the end of cooking or as a garnish. Among our other innovative recipe ideas are Christmas Pork Stir-fried, named to its lovely red-n-green Christmas colors. Stir-fries are always a popular menu staple in many Asian restaurants, and are an easy task yet a favorite for all. One thing to remember is, to make pork taste more delicious, we suggest add the Chinese five-spice powder, which is different from the Indian blend, consists of Sichuan pepper, fennel, cloves, cinnamon, and star anise. A special version of a Thai dessert, made of young Pumpkins, would be an interesting away to end a meal. Although more usually the dessert is served in a coconut shell, a hollowed pumpkin not only looks more attractive, but its flesh gives a pleasing contrast to the sweet custard, and fits perfectly in the season.