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Was trying to find recipes in this book using "Fried Shallots." Only one recipe appeared (in addition to the recipe for fried shallots itself), although quite a few recipes in this book use that ingredient. Noticed that shallots are not among the aromatics listed in vegetable search. Are they listed somewhere else? Seems as though in the index for this book "shallots" and "fried shallots" have not been listed as separate ingredients and that would be very helpful.

We don't list cooked ingredients (i.e. parts of a recipe you cook yourself rather than purchasing), we list the ingredients you need to cook that portion of the recipe.  So if a recipe calls for fried shallots, then the ingredients we list are peanut oil and Asian shallots - the ingredients required to make fried shallots.  

So to find all recipes using those ingredents you would select "small onions" under Ingredients/Vegetables/Aromatics and then add "Asian shallots" and "peanut oil" to the Burma recipe search.  This yields 29 results - some may not contain fried shallots and just have those ingredients in the recipe.  If you think you may often need to find out where to use the fried shallots, add a Bookmark and tag each recipe that uses them.

Thanks, Jane. Don't think I ever realized that. And only now that you mention it do I realize that the recipes that DO appear when I type in "fried shallots" all have either "fried shallots" or "crispy shallots" in the recipe title. Thanks, too, for the info on how to search for and bookmark the recipes that include fried shallots in Burma. It will be a bit of work, but I think for this book in particular it will be worth it.