Posts Tagged ‘chinese food’

Roasting Pork Get Crakling

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Roast Pork with crisp brown crackling is a rich and succulent dish. It can also be roasted without the rind, in the French manner. Either way it is delicious properly cooked and with the right accompaniments. This course show how to roast and carve pork and what to serve with it.

Pork is a relatively inexpensive meat, and can be roasted both on and off the bone. The meat is fat so one of its great virtues is that most of the main cuts can be roasted. Unlike lamb and beef, it is also practical to raost smaller weights of meat, because the outer layer of fat keeps it moist and shrinkage is kept to a minimum.

Pale meat, such as pork or veal, must be well cooked, never rare. Rare pork does (more…)

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Vegetarian Foodstuffs to Described

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Alpine Strawberry- The sweet, red fruit of the alpine strawberry plant. Compared to more common varieties, alpine strawberries are very small and have a pointed shape. Although sweet and aromatic, they are not very juicy and they are not usually grown commercially.

Preparation: alpine strawberries are relatively unusual and so are best enjoyed whole and fresh.

Uses: small ones may be used as decoration or served in individual pastry tartlets.

Amaranth- The large, nutritious seed of a decorative, ornamental plant of the pigweed family. Amaranth is available as a seed, flour (see amaranth flour) or as puffed seeds from specialist outlet. It is gluten free and high in protein.

Preparation: the seeds may be cooked in boiling water as you would a grain.

Uses: puffed amaranth may be used as a breakfast cereal. (more…)

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Deep Fried Wontons

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

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…)

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Cantonese Cooking

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Cantonese cooking, especially has stayed close to the Taoist principle that food should be eaten as near to its natural state as possible, with as little cooking and seasoning as possible. Chemical tenderizers such as vetsin (monosudium glutamate) are avoided, and cutting and scoring the meats, vegetables and fish in such a way as to achieve the required tenderness preferred. This relies of course, not only on a (more…)

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What is all about the Guangzhou

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Guangzhou is in southern China, on the coast. A mild climate and access to the sea gave the province a vast variety of foodstuffs and ingredients and it is credited with the invention of the greatest number of dishes some say around 400,00 with 250 different ways of cooking pork alone!

Cantonese is however, a non holds barred school; practically everything which may (more…)

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Deep Fried Paper Wrapped Shrimp

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Deep Fried Paper Wrapped Shrimp

4 American servings
4 Chinese servings

4 large shrimp
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon white pepper
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 teaspoons sherry
4 pieces of waxed paper, 8 inches square
1 tablespoon oil
4 thin strips of red sweet
pepper
1 scallion white part only, quartered lengthwise
4 thin slices fresh ginger root
oil for deep frying
shredded lettuce
4 tomato wedges

Methods
Shell the shrimp and take out the black vein. Mix the shrimp with salt, pepper,garlic and sherry and leave for at least 15 minutes. Toss occasionally. Drain. Rub one side of the pieces of waxed paper with the oil. Place 1 shrimp on top of each piece of paper diagonally just off center. Line with 1 pepper strip, 1 piece of scallion and 1 slice ginger. Fold the paper as illustrated in the picture. Heat oil for deep frying until hot, but not smoking (about 350 to 360) and deep fry the shrimp for about 5 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain. Place the packages, unopened, on shredded lettuce and garnish each with a tomato wedge. Excellent to start off a meal, especially when served with salt and pepper mix and plum sauce.

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Chilli Shrimps Recipe

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Ingredients

1kg (2Ib) large shrimps

20 fresh red chilies, finely ground

1 tbsp fine sugar

salt to taste

2 tbsp white wine

3 tbsp oil (more…)

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Chinese Style Pork Spare Ribs

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Ingredients:

1.1 kg (600g) pork spare ribs

1 cup sweet red fermented bean paste

2 tbsp five spice powder

pinch of salt and pepper

100 g fine sugar (more…)

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CHILLI CRABS

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Ingredients
2 tbsp fermented salted black beans (hak tow see)
2 cloves garlic
30 chili padi
2 cm piece root ginger 1 tbsp brown sugar 21/2 kg big meaty crabs 1 metric cup pork lard (more…)

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STEAMED CHICKEN

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Ingredients
1 big chicken — about 2 kg in weight

1/4 cup ginger juice concentrate
Salt to taste
6 tbsp sesame oil (warmed) (more…)

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