Building Blocks

The following recipes are the building blocks for many other recipes in this book.

All the dressings and sauces can be used with various meats, seafood, tofu or vegetables. Mix and match. This is really what this book is all about: gaining confidence with flavours and realising where they can be used successfully, intelligently and subtly.

I have included a recipe here for Chinese fresh chicken stock. I recommend you go to the trouble of making your own fresh stock. The delicacy of flavour and texture will convince you that the effort has been worthwhile, and you will never go back to buying prepared or dehydrated stocks.