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Seriously Asian: Grilled Rice

This week's recipe is inspired by a segment on The Splendid Table, which I follow not only for the food but to hear Lynn Rosetto Kasper salivate on air. (Am I the only one?) Hearing people talk about food almost always makes me hungrier than watching videos or looking at photos, and this time she was talking about onigiri.

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Seriously Asian: Glutinous Rice and Banana Leaves

Wrapping glutinous rice in banana leaves has to be one of the best things you can do with glutinous rice. The banana leaves impart their herbaceous, almost minty scent to the rice, which gets a double treatment of flavor: once from the wrapping, and again from the filling. You'll find banana leaf-wrapped bundles of glutinous rice across China and parts of Southeast Asia, the fillings varying according to regional tastes.

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Seriously Asian: Glutinous Rice Balls (Tang yuan)

You'll find packets of frozen tang yuan at most Chinese supermarkets, and these days the fillings not only come in the standard assortment, but have branched out into fancy-sounding ones like "sweet osmanthanus" and "chestnut and sesame seed." Why then, take the trouble of making your own at home? Why not!

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How to Make Joong/Zongzi, Pork-Stuffed Glutinous Rice Bundles

When I was a kid, my mom chastised me for running in the house, but I'd run even faster towards the kitchen when the fragrant smells of her savory joong filled the air. My mom's joong are hefty bundles filled with lightly salted glutinous rice, studded with split mung beans, and generously stuffed with delectable slabs of cured pork belly, juicy slices of salty-sweet Chinese sausage, golden, creamy orbs of salted duck egg yolks, pungent dried baby shrimp, and flavorful shredded dried scallop all snugly wrapped in aromatic bamboo leaves and tied with string.

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Seriously Asian: Toasted Rice Powder

Rice meal is rice is that has been toasted and ground-up. The dish Fen Zheng Rou, or steamed meat with rice powder, consists of some fatty meat marinated in a combination of Sichuanese spicy bean paste, soy sauce, and rice wine, which is then coated in a thick layer of the toasted rice powder.

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Seriously Asian: Rice Rolls

I have the same feeling about rice wrappers—those circular and transparent wrappers made from rice flour—that I do about bread for sandwiches. If you put some form of protein and vegetables in the middle and roll it up, you've got an easy and transportable meal. And like a sandwich, putting ingredients in the middle of something starchy legitimizes the combination, right?

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How to Make Onigiri

If fine sushi-making is a culinary art form, you could think of onigiri as culinary arts 'n' crafts. More humble and practical than sushi, and with a lot of potential for cuteness, onigiri is, not surprisingly, a mainstay of the Japanese bento box and a popular quick meal.

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Sushi Week Part 3: How to Make Temaki (Hand Rolls)

Ben Stiller complained in There's Something About Mary that there aren't enough meats-in-cones. It's a shame that Mr. Stiller overlooked negitoro temaki (fatty tuna and scallion hand rolls), a classic meat-in-a-cone if there ever was one. Temaki, or hand rolls are the quickest, dirtiest way to get sushi from pantry to gullet. They don't require any special tools to make, or even any utensils to eat.

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Sushi Week Part 1: A Sushi Style Guide and How to Make Sushi Rice

It's sushi week at Serious Eats. We're kicking it off with a sushi style guide (on nigirizushi, makizushi, temaki, inarizushi, oshizushi, and chirashizushi) and notes on how to make sumeshi, the vinegared rice that makes sushi, well, sushi. Each day this week, we'll feature instructions on how to make a different basic form of sushi. Why? Because that's just how we roll.

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How to Make Risotto

Risotto-making requires you to stand at the stove and do nothing except tend to the rice for about 20 minutes. On the face of it, that could sound like a drag. But, like me, you might find it a "Calgon, take me away" kind of escape. The hot steam and the stirring, ladling, and more stirring transport me into a much-needed culinary meditation that results in a delicious meal.

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