Essential Asian Pantry Staples: Your Guide to Cooking
This is a printable shopping list of essential Asian pantry staples to make delicious homecooked Asian recipes.
Servings: 50
Ingredients
13 Essential Asian Pantry Staples
- rice (Choose Thai jasmine, Japanese sushi rice, long grained rice or glutinous rice)
- noodles (Choose rice noodles, lo mein, soba, udon, rice vermicelli, glass noodles or even angel hair pasta)
- soy sauce (Choose traditional light soy sauce for everyday cooking. If you do a lot of Asian cooking add dark soy sauce and/or sweet soy sauce. Gluten free options include coconut amino and tamari)
- fish sauce (any brand but we like Fish Boat for a gluten free option.)
- roasted sesame oil (premium is best)
- cooking wine (Shaoxing wine for Chinese cooking. Mirin or Ashi Mirin for Japanese or Korean cooking. Substitute Asian cooking wines with cooking sherry. )
- rice vinegar (plain)
- neutral oil (Your choice - options like avocado oil or other with a high smoke point.)
- aromatics (fresh garlic, green onions and ginger.)
- chili garlic sauce (or sriracha sauce)
- sweetener (honey, jujubes (Chinese red dates), brown sugar or sugar alternative of choice)
- cornstarch (or potato starch)
- oyster sauce (Your choice oyster flavored sauce, premium, vegetarian made from mushrooms and gluten free brands)
8 Nice to Have Pantry Ingredients
- white pepper
- roasted sesame seeds (white or black)
- coconut milk (canned unsweetened. We like Arroy-D or choose an option that has the least amount of additives.)
- dried mushrooms (shiitake or wood ear mushrooms)
- dried seaweed (also called Nori, Gam, Laver sheets for sushi rolls, roasted seaweed snacks or kombu for soups)
- miso paste (light for soups, medium, red or mixed. See post above for types and uses.)
- tofu (soft, firm or extra firm. We use firm for most of our recipes.)
Instructions
- See in post for 56 unique recipes using these essential Asian Pantry staples.
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Notes
This is a basic list of Essential Asian Pantry Ingredients for the home cook. For specific recipes and amounts of each sauce, aromatics or spice, please visit our Asian Cuisine recipes.
