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Gluten Free Chinese Food
from:If you suffer from celiac disease or suffer from gluten intolerance, there are some foods which you will have to avoid or give up if you want to keep the symptoms from flaring up. There are millions of Celiacs world wide, over three million just in America, and because of that there are more gluten free products becoming available to everyone.
Overall when addressing the problem of Chinese Food, you don’t have to avoid it, but you will have to avoid some of the noodles and sauces.
The Amazing Variety Of Chinese Food
Chinese food has a vast variety of tastes, and is not just about take out food. However if you like Chinese take-out foods, you can ask then to hold the sauce and substitute with something else. Often you can choose brown rice instead of white rice. When food us stir-fried it brings out the flavour contained in the ingredients.
Chinese take-aways and restaurants need to keep their customers happy in order to stay in business. Today the business owners are well aware of food allergies and the requirements of vegetarians or vegans – they will also try to include some gluten free Chinese food on their menus. It would be wise to avoid things which have food additives, pastry coating, bread or a thick sauce as they will all contain glucose.
Largely Chinese restaurants have excellent multi-lingual skills, but if you are in doubt, an alternative to check out before your order is the following web site http://www.Select Wisely.com. This website contains Cantonese translations to be sure you are communicating your needs directly
Make Gluten Free Chinese Food Yourself
The only sure way to insure that you have gluten free Chinese food is to cook it yourself. A large frying pan will do, but the best way to cook gluten free Chinese food is to use a wok. A good substitute for rice is crunchy bean sprouts. The preparation takes the most time, but once you have practiced meat and vegetable chopping you will get quicker – the more you do it the quicker you get. The cooking only takes a few minutes.
The spices for gluten free Chinese food are the same as for normal cooking – ginger, cinnamon, star anise, cloves, peppercorns and fennel. Some of the commercially available Chinese Five Spices mixes will contain salt, pepper and garlic powder.
Unless you cannot stand garlic or your doctor has told you to cut down on it, fresh garlic is a great ingredient for gluten free Chinese cooking to help bring out the flavours of the other foods.
Lots of cookbooks and websites today contain gluten free Chinese food recipes and they can be a good source of reference.
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