These are very expensive. Whole nests are obtainable in 80z, packets. Broken nests, which many people use, cost a third of the price of the whole ones. Obtainable from emporia and stores stocking Chinese foods and cookery requirements.
** Bird’s Nests Recipes ** and ** Healthy Diets **
Unlike beef, mutton and to some extent, lamb, which need to be hung to tenderize the meat, pork is eaten fresh. It does not keep well, so you must be very careful where you store it and for how long. Thanks to modern cold storage, pork is no longer seasonal can be bought safely at any time of the year. But in hot weather it should be bought only from a refrigerated display.
** Easy Cooking Recipes** and ** Healthy Food**
Cantonese cooking also specializes in soups, especially turtle soup,steamed,roasted and grilled(broiled) pork and poultry dishes; “double pan” and large earthenware casserole type cooking. A great deal of clear chicken broth is used as a stock or base of light gravies and is preferred to the sugar used by other schools to achieve “sweetness”. And, of course, in keeping with the Taoist principle, underdone is well done, literally,in Canton! This is particularly true of their low oil, quick, stir fried “chow” dishes, a technique which originated in Yang Chow; hence the name.
Refer here **Cantonese Cooking Recipes** and ** Low Fat Recipes**
Ingredients for the filling
2 cups finely shredded bamboo shoot (robong)
For conveniece, use tinned bamboo shoots, but wash the pieces in cold water and boil them briskly for 15 minutes before shredding. I recommend a small tin of Sen Tai brand whole green bamboo shoots, drained weight 225 g or 7 ozs.
2 cups finely shredded yam bean (if shredded portions are too long, halve)
4 small soy bean cakes cut each in 2, then cut each half into three pieces lengthwise, and then finely shred. Fry in shallow hot vegetable oil, till golden brown, but not crisp.
4 large cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 dsp salted soy beans washed and finely pounded
salt and pepper
1/2 cup water
3 dsp vegetable oil, left over from frying shredded soy bean cakes. Add more, if necessary, to make up amount required.
Method
Heat oil in pan. Fry garlic till golden brown and then add pounded salted soy beans and when fragrant, add shredded bamboo shoot, yam cakes, salt, pepper and 1/2 (more…)
Recommended for chicken
20 fresh red chilies
20 dried chilies -soak to soften
2 cloves garlic
60 g fine sugar
3 cups vinegar
salt to taste
Method
Finely grind the chilies and garlic. Put all ingredients in a pan and bring to the boil. Cool
More ** Slimming Sauce** and ** Great Cuisine**
Many “flavors” and textures were created by inventing many different techniques of cooking; the cuisine boast some 80 odd different ways in all. A few shreds of meat, some diced fresh or dried shrimps or prawns, a handful of cheap chopped vegetables, a touch of garlic, soy or black bean sauce and several mirror (more…)
Deep Fried Wontons (6 to 8 American servings/ 6 to 8 Chinese servings)
20 to 24 wonton wrappers
1 double recipe wonton filling
as for soup wontons
1 recipe sweet sour sauce
1 egg lightly beaten
oil for deep frying
Methods:
Prepare wonton wrappers, filling and sweet sour sauce as described in the indicated recipes. Shape the wontons as described in the recipe for wonton soup or follow these instructions. Divide the filling in 20 to 24 equal portions. Place 1 wrapper in (more…)