How to use the wok? Useful tips and advice on the Chinese pot – Italian Cuisine

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The wok is suitable for many types of cooking to prepare many light and tasty dishes in no time. Here's how to use it

Looking for one pot suitable for all types of cuisine? Ideal for frying, browning and steaming? If you still do not know it or have never used it we will present it to you: here is the wok! Its origin is Chinese, but it has long been that this pot has crossed into Italian borders and is used by many chef, even for very common recipes. There are various types of them on the market dimensions (usually between 26 and 34 cm), with removable and very light handle.

Why use the wok

THE advantages of cooking with the wok there are so many. The conical shape of this pot, just to give an example, causes the heat to radiate uniformly over the entire surface, making the cooking food much faster. Thanks to the cooking speed, food does not lose its precious ingredients nutritional substances of which they are composed and the types of cuisine usually heavier – such as fried – they are lighter because less oil and less time will be needed. It should also not be underestimated how perfect this pot is to prepare more foods at the same time.

Tips for learning to use the wok

But which ones technical should I use it to optimize the use of the wok in the kitchen? Here is 5 advice fast.

1) Whether it is steamed, fried or simply sautéed, the trick is to do fast. The wok, in fact, loses its peculiarities when the preparation time becomes longer.
2) To cook steamed with the wok, don't forget the special basket.
The wok can also be used with one grid resting on the top of the pot. All the fats will fall in the lower part of the wok and allow you to cook light and tasty dishes.
3) When inserted into the wok more ingredients to be cooked together remember to mix them transversally and not circularly, making them stick as closely as possible to the very hot walls of the pot.
4) Combining a cover at the wok you can easily stew your food or thicken the sauces you are preparing.
5) When will be the turn of to wash the pot after using it, pass it under hot water with a sponge to remove the dirt. The non-stick walls the wok will be cleaned quickly and – except in some cases with more encrusted dirt – you will not even need dish detergent.

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The dishes you can prepare with the wok

After these tips it is time to give some examples of dishes which you can easily prepare using the wok. Let's start with a great classic: i Pad Thai, the famous Thai noodles that, thanks to the kitchen in the wok, will be ready in a very short time. If we talk about long pasta we can not remember the noodles, traditional Chinese spaghetti that are perfectly prepared with this fantastic pan. If you want something more complex but definitely tasty, you can try your hand at preparing steamed ravioli, meat and vegetables – the famous ones dumpling – with the wok that will be your precious ally during cooking.

Even the cooking of rice, with the use of wok in recipes like the Cantonese rice and the most classic of the saffron risotto they will be faster and simpler. Not to mention a second dish with a Thai flavor vegetables and ham.

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