Tag: Edward Lee

Edward teaches how to steam fish packets filled with vegetables and a spicy marinade. From mixing the marinade, blanching and shocking cabbage leaves, and chopping vegetables, you will gain an array of essential skills. One of the most intriguing components is the creamy egg yolk sauce, which is a rich contrast to the light-tasting fish.

This crunchy watermelon Brûlée brings an element of surprise to this dish.

Learn how to simmer peanuts in sugar syrup with soy sauce, dry and shallow fry in peanut oil.

Make the best buttered popcorn imaginable.

Edward explores the complexity of watermelon with this whimsical salad. Simple techniques like stove-popping buttery popcorn, boiling and frying peanuts, and creating a crunchy Brûlée top make up this surprising plate.

Learn how to make quail with perfect cross-hatched char marks, simmer homemade barbecue sauce with surprising ingredients, and prepare homemade quick pickles. Edward’s grilling techniques can be applied to other proteins.

When asparagus season rolls around, throw them on the grill for a nice burnt char. The pine nuts bring an added nutty contrast.

Join Edward and Ben, home chef and community leader, as they throw a fun backyard barbecue for their friends and family. Learn Ben’s special brine, how to handle a variety of meats and vegetables on the grill, including Tomahawk pork chops, asparagus, and sweet potatoes.

For the dreamiest grilled sweet potatoes — with creamy insides and very crispy outsides — follow this recipe.

Make your barbecue better with this easy to make brine.

Learn how to make quail with perfect cross-hatched char marks, simmer homemade barbecue sauce with surprising ingredients, and prepare homemade quick pickles. Edward’s grilling techniques can be applied to other proteins.

This Filipino-inspired roasted bananas shows that a barbecue sauce can go in numerous directions.

Is there a better way to eat steak than under a melty layer of Korean kalbi butter? An easy and delicious way to elevate your steak. Edward also explains how to check for doneness, manipulate the fire, and accomplish a smoky taste.

Don’t throw away watermelon rinds because you can pickle that! There’s nothing better in the summer than an ultra fresh watermelon, that’s why Edward likes to save the rinds, pickle it, and bring acidity and crunch to barbecue dishes.

Seasoned butter is one of the most versatile things to keep on hand, especially when seasoned with Korean barbecue flavors and topped on a steak. That’s why magical things happen when soy sauce, sesame oil, and butter come together.

This is an essential item to have on hand in your pantry. Ingredients marinate in a jar for a month and bring tons of complexity to any dish.

This isn’t your typical brown butter. The tantalizing bourbon and butter aromas will make you want to cook this dish again and again.

Seafood lovers, take note. Learning how to shuck an oyster is an essential skill. Watch this and you’ll never have any shucking doubts again.

This comfort-worthy, flavor-bursting dish brings together four unique flavors and textures including oysters, bourbon brown butter, creamy grits, and hot vinegar.

Edward revisits the Southern classic dish of shrimp and grits with his own unique take that combines his love of bourbon and oysters.

Turn simple rice into a showstopper. Simmer rice in coconut milk for a rich and sweet complexity.

Learn the basics of making savory, creamy peanut butter. His method involves roasting peanuts and blending them with Asian ingredients like sesame oil for an umami-tasting butter that is perfect to use in cooking and not just spreading on toast.

Let braised chicken drumsticks come to the rescue with this wonderful weeknight recipe. Bring excitement to your family dinner and make it faster, easier, and tastier.

Recreate Edward’s favorite childhood sandwich. The restaurant-style reinterpretation with seared Japanese eggplant and mushroom elevates the classic dish, adding roasted garlic to enhance the mayo.

Roasting garlic in aluminum foil on the grill is the best way to roast garlic. It’s perfect to enhance the flavor of any dish.

Edward teaches how to utilize one of his signature flavors: Burnt. Discover the gentle balance of burning without charring, as you learn how to master the Maillard reaction and release deliciousness from the simplest ingredients. Recreate Edward’s his favorite childhood sandwich and learn how to sear and caramelize as you elevate the gentle flavors of eggplant, mushroom and bologna, along with roasting garlic to enhance mayonnaise.

It’s always important to repurpose leftovers, that’s why yesterday’s ham is wonderful when turned into ham salt. Learn how to freeze ham, grate on micro plane, then toast in oven until dried. The result? Tons of added flavor.

Packing kimchi in a jar is a skill of itself. Once you learn this technique, you’ll be able to turn so many vegetables into delicious kimchi.

With just a few ingredients, you too can simply ferment foods at home. Edward shows how to make kimchi from kohlrabi, which is a dense vegetable that can hold up well through fermentation. While this vegetable is less traditional for kimchi, expect the usual elements like Korean chili flakes, scallions, garlic, and ginger to tantalize the taste buds.

Edward highlights silken tofu in this dish of fatty broth, braised daikon and an apple-ginger puree. Beyond demonstrating how to create a rich broth, braise vegetables, and plate an elegant dish, he also emphasizes knife skills such as cutting radishes into perfect cubes and matchsticks.

One of the most intriguing components of this dish is the creamy egg yolk sauce, a riff on the classic Hollandaise sauce with miso paste, bringing a rich and umami-packed contrast to the light tasting fish.

There’s no better way to stay cozy than with a fatty and elegant meat stock. Boil beef bones with aromatics for hours for a bold broth.

A delicious and healthy meal that’s easy to make any night of the week. Learn how to steam fish with vegetables and filled with intricate flavors. Cabbage makes the perfect vessel for a wrap. Learn how to blanch, shock, and stuff the cabbage. Healthy, gluten-free, and easy to make!

Learn the basics of making flavor-packed marinades and how to build flavors.

Bump up boring coleslaw with this creative riff. The Asian pear and cabbage bring a crisp sweetness and punch of bright acidity.

Follow these simple steps and your buttermilk fried chicken will come out perfectly juicy on the inside and crispy on the outside.

It’s spicy, tangy, sweet, and sultry – gochujang sauce hits all the right notes for the ultimate flavor bomb. Put it on fried chicken or keep it in the fridge to bring spice to everything else.