{"id":27196,"date":"2017-07-25T12:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T19:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shescookin.crwcun8-liquidwebsites.com\/?p=27196"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T19:49:02","slug":"jet-tilas-pineapple-fried-rice-and-101asiandishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/jet-tilas-pineapple-fried-rice-and-101asiandishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet Tila’s Pineapple Fried Rice and #101AsianDishes"},"content":{"rendered":"
A recipe that has made family, friends, and loyal customers happy for 40 years has to be absolutely amazing! And celebrity chef Jet Tila is sharing his family recipe for Pineapple Fried Rice with you in his new cookbook, 101 Asian Dishes You Need To Cook Before You Die!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n To understand Asian cooking you have to understand the philosophy of “yum”. Celebrity chef and Asian cooking expert Jet Tila captivated a crowd of enthusiastic food writers and media gathered at Melissa’s Produce<\/a> with his animated breakdown of what is Yum. Yum<\/em> is an actual Thai word that translates to the perfect balance of tastes, and, not surprisingly, Thai dishes are known for their sublime balance of all five tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami, usually achieved with palm sugar, lime, tamarind, and fish sauce.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jet Tila’s Pineapple Fried Rice<\/p>\n Jump to Recipe<\/a><\/p>\n Growing up in LA’s Thai Town, Jet learned the ancient traditions of Asian cuisine from his Cantonese grandmother and by working at this family’s famed Bangkok Market, the first Thai market to open in the U.S. So Jet knows a thing or two about authentic Asian cuisine and delivered an energetic and humorous account of his early years in Los Angeles up to how he landed his first gig with Food Network battling Morimoto on Iron Chef America<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Before Jet’s cooking demonstration, we enjoyed a fantastic lunch of Yum dishes featuring recipes from Tila’s book 101 Asian Dishes<\/em> and Melissa’s produce: Kung Pao Shrimp, Szechuan-style Green Beans, Chinese Chicken salad, Buddha’s Delight, Mongolian Beef, Cinnamon and Five Spice Donuts, and Thai iced tea. The menu could not have been a better representation of some of America’s favorite Chinese classics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some people may scoff that all of this is Americanized Chinese food, but Jet believes that the word “authentic” is a broad term. Chinese food went global over a hundred years ago and Thai, Vietnamese and Korean cuisines have also been around for 40 or more years. If a cuisine takes hold in another country and new dishes are created, are they not authentic? In the last 50 years, new dishes like California rolls, spicy tuna, orange chicken (all are recipes included in 101 Dishes) and countless others have been created by Asians outside of Asia and have made their way into the global food vocabulary. To Jet they are totally authentic, and he will stand by that all day long!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 101 Asian Dishes, is a compilation of 101 classic Asian recipes that every home cook needs to try – Jet has demystified Asian cooking and made it approachable with simplified techniques, weeknight-friendly cook times and ingredients commonly found in most grocery stores. Starting with the philosophy of “yum”, Jet expertly teaches everything from stocking your pantry with the essential sauces and ingredients you need to cook Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese food like a boss to techniques that will have you rocking the wok in no time.<\/p>\n Jet demonstrated how to cook Szechuan-Style Green Beans (one of my all-time favorite Chinese dishes!) and his family’s Pineapple Fried Rice – a recipe that has been served at their family table and in their restaurants for 40 years! So what do you say? \u00a0Let’s get started and rock the wok with his Pineapple Fried Rice! P.S. Jet says don’t let the wok scare you. It’s a pan, same as the skillet you’ve cooked in thousands of times. The only difference is its shape. If you don’t own a wok – a cast iron or heavy skillet works just as well.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nJet Tila Cooking Demonstration<\/h2>\n
Jet Tila’s Pineapple Fried Rice Recipe<\/h2>\n