Sunday, March 20, 2011

Take ginger beef

Dish discontinuous cuisine Chinese restaurant take-out. Serves 4Partially freeze beef to make it easier to cut.

If ginger House, ginger of grid joose and pressing on juice until you have 2 tablespoons. Cut the partially frozen beef on the grain into thin strips the length and width of the matches. Add the marinade ingredients and marinate the meat for 25 minutes.


In a small bowl, mix the soy sauce, rice or sherry, vinegar, sugar, water and hot wine of oil from Chile. Cancelled.


While the beef is marinating, prepare the vegetables and sauce. Cutting celery, red peppers and carrots into thin strips.


To prepare the dough, combine flour and cornstarch. Incorporate the vegetable oil and oil hot chili if using. Add a quantity of water to a smooth paste. It shouldn't be too dry or too flows, but should drop slightly back of a wooden spoon.


Heat oil to poach in 360 degrees Fahrenheit. Dip pieces of beef marinated in the dough. When oil is hot, add the beef and fried until it is brown gold. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels.


Increase the heat to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Frying beef a second time, to make it extra cripsy. Remove and drain. Clean wok.


Heat 2 tablespoons oil in the wok. When oil is hot, add chopped garlic, peppers and ginger. Sauté until peppers blister. Add the carrot. Jumped briefly, then add celery and red pepper.


Grow vegetables on the side of the wok. Add the sauce in the middle. Heat to boiling, then add back in the pan fried beef. Mix all ingredients. Remove from heat. Stir in sesame oil. Serve warm.


 

Ultimate Chicken Stir-fry

Chicken, cashew and water chestnuts are cooked in a delicious sauce chicken stir-fry recipe submitted by Alex Smith. He pointed out that it works as well with beef. How to prepare chicken stir-fry
A dry wok over medium heat, add cashews. Toast for about 1 minute, stirring constantly until toasted lightly (don't burn). Remove cashews.

Heat 2 tablespoons of peanut oil in the wok. Add the chicken. Skip to what Bruni, with no Rose slightly (about 5-6 minutes). Remove the chicken and put on the plate.


Jumped, carrots and mushrooms for about 3 minutes water chestnuts. Add cooked chicken, cashew and stir-fry sauce. Stir well. Cover the wok and let the ingredients to cook for about 3 minutes.


 

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Vegetarian Potstickers

Drain the tofu, cut into cubes and mash. Wash and prepare vegetables. Combine tofu with the rest of the ingredients and seasonings.

Draw one in front of you gyoza wrappers. Dipped his finger in water and moisten the edges of the packaging.


Place a packed teaspoon of filling of the package.


Fold the wrapper gyoza filling and pinch the edges to seal closed. (You can use a mixture of cornstarch and water to make it easier).


Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a wok or large skillet.When the oil is ready, carefully add the dumplings and cook on high heat to golden brown (about 1 minute). Without returning the dumplings, add 1/2 cup of water and cover. Cook for about 1 minute to cook raw stuffing and then discover and continue cooking until most of the liquid is absorbed.


 

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

With pork and shrimp wonton

It is a Basic for wonton with a pork recipe and shrimp filling. The wonton of frying or make boiled in soup as desired. For extra flavor, use fresh water chestnuts.

Yields on 35-40 wonton

Finely chop the pork and shrimp. Water chestnuts Peel and finely chop. Chop the ginger until you have 1 teaspoon.

Combine pork and shrimp with chestnuts of water, minced ginger, sauce of oysters, soy sauce, rice wine or vinegar Sherry or rice, sugar, sesame oil and white pepper.


Order to meet the wontons, lay a won ton skin in front of you. (Coverage won hides your remaining wet to prevent dry towel). Moisten the edges of the wrapper won ton with water. Place a full teaspoon of won ton filling in Centre.


Fold in half lengthwise wonton wrapper, be sure to answer at the end. Press firmly on the ends to seal. Use inches for press edges to complete to focus the it. Keeping inches to square fold wonton wrapper once more. Push the corners and keep them in place between your thumb and forefinger. Wet corners with your fingers. Meet both ends so that they overlap. Press to seal. The finished product should look like the cap of a nurse. Repeat with won - ton remaining.


Alternative method: placing the teaspoon of filling of the wrapper and twist to seal. The final result should look like a bag fellowship or silver cord.


Boil the wontons: bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add tons of won, ensuring that there is enough room for them to move freely. Let the wontons boil for 5-8 minutes, until they rise to the surface and the filling is cooked through. Remove the jar with a spoon to slits.


 

White Tea

White tea arrived in North America. While Chinese tea drinkers were hip to the benefits of white tea since the Ming dynasty, until recently, it was virtually unknown outside of Asia. No more. Everyone counts for medical researchers now renting delicate flavour of white tea alleged benefits and health. Market researchers expect consumers will soon be sharing their enthusiasm as regards white tea in one of the hottest new food trends.

But what is white tea? Most tea lovers know that all the tea comes from the same source: Camilla Sinensis tea Bush. If a sheet of tea by wind in a cup of tea black, green or oolong depends entirely on what happens after it is harvested. Drift black tea colour dark and full of flavour of a complex fermentation process which includes exposing tea crushed leaves in the air for a strictly set number of minutes. Tea green tea leaves more mellow tasting are not fermented, but simply withered in hot air and steam quickly or pan-fried. A sweet ride and final heating stabilizes the natural flavours of tea. Oolong teas are found somewhere in the Middle: partial fermentation gives them a distinct reddish colour and flavour "flowery".


Then, where white tea fit image? White tea is made from immature tea leaves selected shortly before the buds were fully open. Tea takes its name from the fuzz of money still covers buds, which becomes white when the tea is dried. The exact proportion of leaf buds varies depending on the variety of white tea. For example, White Peony contains a bud for both leaves, while silver needles the crème de la crème of white teas, is entirely from fluffy buds selected in two days at the beginning of spring.


Of course, an exotic appearance alone does not explain sudden rush of white tea in popularity. The secret lies in what happens after the buds are plucked. Tea leaves to be sold as white tea suffer still less processing than leaves of green tea. Instead of drying, unwithered leaves are simply steamed.


The result? A pale tea with a taste soft and silky. People who have tried both note that white tea is not the "grass" aftertaste so often associated with green tea. Moreover, studies indicate that white tea is more advantageous to you. Leaving tealeaves so close to their natural state means that white tea contains more polyphenols, the powerful antioxidant that fights and kills the cells causing cancer, than any other type of tea.


Need another reason to drink white tea? A study of 2004 at Pace University found that white tea can help your immune system fight viruses and dangerous bacteria causing infections. The same study found that white tea rich in fluoride helps prevent the growth of dental plaque, the leading cause of tooth decay.


Of course, nothing in life is perfect. Expect to pay more for a white tea than other types of tea - up to $ 25 for a box of 2 oz (40 to 50 cups) of Silver Needle. And although many tea rooms are starting to carry the white tea, online shopping is still your best bet for highest range varieties.


 

Wonton Wrappers

It is easy to make your own wonton wrappers. This recipe makes approximately 24 wonton wrappers. Lightly beat eggs with salt. Add 1/4 cup of water.

Sift the flour in a large bowl. Make a well in the environment and add the egg mixture and water. Mix the flour. Add as much water needed rest form a paste. (Add more water the recipe asks if the dough is too dry).


Form the dough into a ball and knead for about 5 minutes, or until it forms a workable and smooth paste. Cover and let the rest for 30 minutes. Turn the dough lightly floured surface. Deploy until that only very thin and cut into 3 1/2 square inches. Keep in a plastic bag in the refrigerator or freezer until ready to use.


 


 


 

Monday, February 7, 2011

What is Velveting of chicken?

 


Ingredients: 1 pound chicken breasts Boneless Skinless, 1 large egg white 1 tbsp of cornstarch 2 cups vegetable or peanut oilDirections:
1 Cut the chicken into 3/4 - 1 inch cubes. In a bowl, mix cornstarch and egg white. Add the mixture of the cubes of chicken egg white, launching or using your fingers to coat the chicken mixture. Marinate the chicken in a container sealed in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
2 Expose paper napkins or prepare you a strainer drain chicken after cooking. Heat 2 cups oil in a wok preheated until the oil reached 275 degrees Fahrenheit. (Test for heat by placing a piece of chicken in the wok - he should float immediately). Add the cubes of chicken and let cook until they turn white (approximately 30 seconds), with a spoon of wood or chopsticks to gently separated them. Quickly remove the cubes of chicken wok as soon as they turn white and drain in a colander or paper towels.
3 Complete chicken velveted opened with vegetable cooking, launch and stirring to ensure that the chicken is cooked through.


Chicken velveting in egg white and cornstarch mixture prevents Bake and become dry. As its name implies, it also gives chicken a smooth and velvety texture. The velveting oil can be saved and used for sautéing other dishes of chicken.


The first step in the process of velveting can be completed earlier in the day. After preparing the mixture of egg whites and coating, Chicken cubes store chicken in a sealed container in the refrigerator until ready to use. All that remains is to cook Chicken cubes in hot oil and add them to the stir-fry.


Since mix velveting lacks the variety of seasonings that are usually found in a marinade for chicken (like soy sauce and oyster sauce) this technique works best with stir-fries who are highly experienced, like Kung Pao chicken. Otherwise, the dish can taste rather bland.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Peanut sauce

Peanut sauce is a great way appetizers, salads, pasta, fried tofu and satay flavor added.


This Chinese-influenced recipe for peanut sauce paste did not the sharp taste of Thai peanut sauce recipes with curry, but it is just as flavorful.Warm the chicken broth in a small saucepan and warm to keep over low heat.
Process the peanut butter, garlic, coriander and mint leaves and sugar in a blender or food processor. Add slowly heated chicken stock and process.
Remove from the mixer and stir into the soy sauce and chili powder taste.
Peanut Satay and salads or as an appetizer dip sauce to serve.


 

Chinese fruit salad

There are no hard and fast rules for preparing a fruit salad – feel free to use, which are always fresh fruit available. The main thing is to look for a variety of colors and textures.
For this recipe I a Chinese used peach - sweeter than many other types of peaches and a symbol of longevity in Chinese culture. However, any other kind of peach can be replaced. As to the salad with a few Mint garnish you feel free a hint if desired.

 

Mix the sugar and almond extract. Stir in the five-spice powder. Set aside.

Peel and slice the banana. If fresh mango, Peel and cut the mango. Cut stalks off the Kiwi fruits and pare from the skin. Place the Kiwi on its side and slice. Wash and sliced thin the Peach. Wash and hull of strawberries and cut in half.


In a bowl, put the banana slices in a ring around the edge. Place the Kiwi slices in the middle. Sprinkle a little bit of the sugar mixture over. The mango slices on top of bananas and Kiwi distributed. Sprinkle a little sugar. Put the peach slices around the edge of the plate. Sprinkle again. Was the strawberries in the middle and the remaining sugar sprinkle on top. Cover and chill before serving.

Sesame seed custard

Toast sesame seeds in dry skillet in 300 degree oven until brown, about 20 minutes. Cool. Mixed with powdered sugar. Set aside.

Mix flour with granulated sugar into Bowl. Stir in 1/2 cup water. Add beaten eggs. Mix until smooth.


Pour 1 cup of water in pot. Bring to a boil. Add flour mixture. Vigorously stir over moderate heat until it thickens. Add vanilla. Stir well.


Pour the mixture into greased 8-inch square Pyrex dish. Pat hand to 1/2-inch thickness. Cool in the refrigerator.


Cut into strips 1 1/2-inch long and 1/2-inch wide. Dredge strips with corn starch. Heat oil to moderate hot. FRY strips, a few at a time, 3 minutes or until light brown. Lift you out with sieve, Brown as fast as you. Remove the plate served.


 

Chinese tea eggs

Tee-Eier, also called marbled eggs are distinctive-looking and easy to do. Serve you as a snack or with a dim sum lunch, Easter morning breakfast or during the Chinese new year season.

Tee-Eier photo

Place the eggs in a pot with water, making sure that it is at least 1/2 inches of water over the eggs. Cover and rolling boil. Remove the pot from the element, and let the eggs in hot water for 15-20 minutes until cooked. Remove the eggs to and run under cold water to cool. (Reserve water in the Pan).

Tap the hard-boiled eggs, gently with the back of a spoon, a series of cracks everywhere while ensuring on the egg shells that the shell remains intact. (If the shell to off, no - worry just means it that egg a darker color than the other).


Bring to a boil the water in the pan. Add the salt, soy sauce, brewed black tea, star anise pieces and the cinnamon stick. Add the eggs. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for 2 hours. Turn off the heat and let the eggs into the hot liquid until ready to serve to sit. 6 Is used.


 

Chinese new year menu ideas

 


Sweet and sour pork is a popular year's Court with families new hope for many Enkelkinder.Rhonda Parkinson's disease while course banquet at a Chinese restaurant is an elaborate 12 a great way to celebrate Chinese new year, it's also fun to your own Chinese new years party at home to host. Here are a number of menu ideas to celebrate Chinese new year - each menu contains at least a recipe, which symbolizes luck or has other lucky connotations in Chinese culture. The menus demand for Chinese tea, but feel free to alcohol and to help you - after all, this a fixed!


 

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Chicken wonton

This easy chicken wonton recipe follows a reader's proposal to reduce the fat and calories by bake instead of filled wontons frying. I used also reduced fat peanut butter and a sugar substitute. Each wonton has about 55 to 60 calories.

Makes about 16 wonton

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (about 175 degrees C). 2 9 X 13 inch baking sheets with non-stick cooking spray (such as PAM) spray.

2. Heat wok over medium to high high heat. Add 2 tablespoons oil, drizzling it down the sides of the wok. If the oil is hot, add the shallot, garlic and onions. Wokken briefly, then add the chicken wokken on high heat, changes color to the chicken and cooked almost through. Stir in remaining ingredients. Remove the wok from the burner and let cool the mixture.


3. The wonton wrappers got filled with a small bowl with water. Layout 1 wonton wrappers, and about 1 tablespoon of the mixture of chicken to place in the middle. Refresh your finger into the water, and run it along the edges of wonton wrappers too wet. Take an other wonton wrappers and place it on top in a way that makes a star shape (ie. the top wrapper looks like a diamond instead of a square). Continue with the rest of the mixture.


4. The wonton set cooking, to the baking sheet and spray lightly with cooking spray. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until golden, turning halfway through cooking.

The five elements theory in the Chinese kitchen

The concept of yin and Yang, the cornerstone of Chinese culture is the five elements theory. What is the theory of five elements? The Chinese believe that we are surrounded by five energy fields: wood, fire, Earth, metal and water. The elements are not static: you are constantly moving and changing. ? (In fact some scientists think the term "Element" is misleading and prefer to refer to the "five stages" or "five forces".)


Once the Chinese identified the five elements, you set on the categorization of all phenomena within the five categories. Everything from river to sounds on the organs in our body, can be described in terms of the five elements.? How "Things" are marked, depends on your individual qualities.? For example, Earth is growth and food, maps, and the spleen monitors blood - debris to digest and production of antibodies on demand - as Earth is categorized.


Just as an imbalance between yin and Yang destructive forces can produce, promotes to keep everything balanced harmony in our environment and ourselves. It's a little more complicated than achieving harmony between two opposing forces, balancing five elements. According to Chinese believe affects each item two others, either it birth or control. For example wood produces fire and controls or earth suppressed.? As fire gives birth to Earth and controls metal. All elements are continuously with other elements interaction - none stand alone. The following table outlines the relationships.



An example from nature, a plant (wood) grows when it is given water.? When burned, wood, fire, and the ashes scorched then down towards the Earth gives birth.


What role does the five elements theory in play the Chinese diet?


You can see the compliance with the five elements theory in many facets of the Chinese life. ?Martial arts, for example: many schools have a series of basic movements, each designed to keep the body in harmony with the elements. And the five elements theory plays a large role in Feng Shui, the latest trend in both landscape and interior design.?Literally means "Wind and water", align Feng Shui energy in your home or work environment in a way that is conducive to mostly with your own personal energy.


As Chinese herbalists diet believe that a patient need to correctly handle, you know the State of the five elements in your body. A deficiency or an excessive amount of an item can lead to disease. In the Chinese kitchen: Recipes, techniques, ingredients, history and authority on Chinese cuisine, Eileen memories from America's leading Yin Fei Lo offers some wonderful examples how to use the principles of the theory of five elements your grandmother to heal common diseases. Treatment of cough with winter melon tea and fresh water chestnuts, is just one example.


A detailed look at the use of the five elements theory in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases is beyond the scope of this article.? Suffice it to say that traditional Chinese medicine to practitioners on it, the relationship between the body organs and tissues and leave between the body and the outside environment. The following table describes the relationship between the five elements and parts of the body, feelings, colors and tastes.


How would a doctor use the above information to make a diagnosis? Suppose a patient suddenly a fondness for acidic food developed.? This can indicate liver problems.? Of course, the actual process of examination of a patient and a diagnosis is much more complex than just advice a chart.? It requires a thorough understanding of the interaction between all elements. Because time and date of birth are also thought to an individual "State of the five elements" a role play, be consulted many doctors of astrological charts, before a diagnosis.


 

Steamed Asian pears with honey

Asian pears are filled with honey and Chinese dates and gently steamed in this recipe. Asian pears are unavailable may instead Bartlett pears be used. Chinese red dates are also known as BER (strictly speaking, you are no date at all). Their sweet taste makes a popular ingredient in Chinese dessert soups and Congees and steamed food. If not available, can be used to the regular dates or raisins instead. You can omit naturally you altogether and just steam pears with honey.

 

Wash the pears and pat dry with paper towels. Cut the top off the pears and set-aside (these are the lid). Remove the core. If desired, cut you small slice down so the bulb is just as steaming from. (Note: depending on type of steaming equipment you use that you may find it difficult to stand pears and cover for dampen.) (In this case the pears slice lengthwise, to place core, and spoonful of honey and date in a hollow in the middle.)

Spoon 2 tablespoons of honey in each bulb. 1 Chinese added. Place the upper back on the bulb. Brush the lemon juice over the skin of the bulb, if using.


A steamer set up, or place a rack for steam inside a deep pot. Place the pears are covered on a plate and steam, for 30 minutes or until pears tender. Serve warm.


 

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Szechuan Peppercorn

Many people are surprised to learn that Szechuan pepper ever is no pepper - the distinctive reddish-brown berries come from the prickly ash tree. Szechuan Peppercorn has a fragrant aroma has compared with lavendar. However, his biggest claim to fame is the powerful numbing sensation, caused it to his mouth. After his marriage with Chile peppers (the other important ingredient in Szechuan cuisine) chefs believe this numbing effect Chile pepper's heat reduced leave to appreciate Diners the capsicum's intense, fruity taste.

Szechuan pepper is in many dishes, including Bang Bang JI (Bang Bang chicken), Dan Dan noodles and Kung pao chicken featured. Recipes call for common ground and roasted the peppercorns. Ground roasted Sichuan Pepper used to make an infusion oil and is also paired with salt to flavorful seasoning. Szechuan pepper is one of the five ingredients that makes five spice powder (the others are star aniseed, fennel, cloves and cinnamon).


 

What is the Velveting chicken?

 


Velveting chicken, a Chinese cooking technique in frying is also used. The chicken is coated in a mixture of egg whites and cornstarch (rice wine or dry sherry and salt are added frequently), for up to 30 minutes marinated and then cooked very briefly in hot oil until the color white turns. After the Velveting the chicken is added the stir fry, to the end with the other ingredients cooking.

Egg white 1 ingredients: 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast 1 large tablespoons cornstarch 2 cups vegetable or peanut of OilDirections:
1. Chop the chicken in 3 / 4-1-inch cubes. You stir together the egg whites and cornstarch into a bowl. Tossing the chicken cubes, or add the egg white mixture to coat the chicken into the mix with the fingers. Marinate the chicken in a sealed container in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
2. Lay out paper towels or prepare a colander to drain the chicken after cooking. Heat 2 cups oil in a wok preheated until the oil reached 275 degrees Celsius. (To test the heat by you a piece of chicken in the wok - it should immediately float). Add the chicken cubes and let Cook until just turn white (30 seconds) to disconnect you gently with a wooden spoon or chopsticks. Remove the chicken cubes quickly from the wok and drain in a colander or paper towels once you turn white.
3. Finish the velveted chicken with vegetables deep frying, tossing and stirring cooking, make sure that the chicken is cooked through.

Velveting chicken in egg whites and cornstarch mixture prevents that there of boil over and always dry. As the name implies, there is a soft, velvety texture chicken. The oil from the Velveting can stored and used by other chicken dishes stir-fry.


The first stage of the Velveting process can be completed earlier in the day. After preparing the mixture, you save the chicken in a sealed container in the refrigerator until ready to use protein and coating the chicken cubes. All that remains is the chicken cubes in the hot oil to cook and add the stir fry you.


This technique works best with wok dishes, which are strongly flavored like such as Kung pao chicken, because the mixture Velveting lacks the variety of spices that are found in a marinade chicken (e.g. oyster sauce and soy sauce). Otherwise, the Court can somewhat bland taste.


Velveting helps more tender beef before stir frying - make, make sure the beef in batches to cook if so not wok trapping necessary. Shrimp is often called velveted also.

Tea smoked duck

Salami, ham, pork and duck are common in Hunan cooking. When preparing this dish, note that the duck seasoned with pepper and refrigerated overnight before cooking. Clean and wash duck 4 6. inspection is used. Thoroughly dry with a paper towel. Rub with salt inside and out. Sprinkle with pepper.?Wrap duck in aluminum foil and place a heavy weight at the top. Cool overnight.

Remove foil and duck on steamer tray. Blankets and steam over boiling water 1 1/2 hours.


Line large wok and wok cover with aluminium foil. Place the tea leaves, rice and brown sugar on slide.


Set a rack over the mixture, or place 1 inch 4 rods Criss about.


Place the duck on rack, breast side up. Cover wok and seal tightly to prevent smoke to escape.


Turn on high heat. FRY tea mixture until it smokes.? Smoking duck too high heat 10 minutes. Reduce moderate heat. Smoke one another 10 minutes. Turn off the heat. Let the duck in the wok another 20 minutes.


Remove the duck. Cool thoroughly. Rub with soy sauce. Sprinkle evenly with corn starch.


Heat oil in a wok and frying duck 10 minutes (5 minutes on each side). Remove. Drain on paper towel.


Chop into bite-sized pieces. Serve hot with pepper salt and bread rolls.? Can be prepared in advance or frozen after step 10. Thaw and refry before serving.


 

Top beef stir fry recipes

After a quick and simple stir fry, dinner tonight make finding? Here are my favorite beef stir fry recipes, beef CHOW fun to beef with Chinese green beans and restaurant-style beef with broccoli.


 

Low calorie shrimp with lobster sauce

Shawn shares his recipe for the Western version of this dish - White Sauce-that is commonly found in Chinese take outs. (Traditional Cantonese shrimp with lobster sauce is made with Chinese salted black beans). The sodium count is quite high, but you can reduce this by using of low sodium chicken broth. Each serving has only 250 calories.


 

Monday, January 31, 2011

Festive foods to celebrate Chinese new year


Plan to keep your own Chinese new year party? There are a number of festive Chinese dishes that helps every new year's Eve celebration a success to make you throw a big bash or just enjoy a quiet dinner with friends. Round rissoles such as pearl and shrimp balls mean reunion, while egg rolls and spring rolls mean wealth due to its similarity with ancient Chinese money. When it comes to the main course poultry in focus – duck is a symbol of fidelity in Chinese culture. A classic banquet dessert is eight precious custard - pudding filled with candy, represent "Treasures", such as happiness and long life. And want to of course, out mandarins have to pass guests. Fortune not to mention cookies!


Here you will find a series of recipes to celebrate the year of the rabbit, cocktails and appetizers to dessert. Does not feel that you have prepared everything to do last minute - many starters ahead of time and can be frozen. Another idea is to keep a potluck and a dish to bring every guest. This will give you more time to the House in red - decorate the Chinese think red is a lucky color protects from evil spirits.


 

Low fat (almost) gebratener rice

What do you do with leftover cooked rice? An idea is it Ham with leftovers to make fried rice combine with ham. With a non-stick pan for frying transformed almost this, but not quite, a low fat dish according to these guidelines from about .com's Guide to low fat cooking.


 

Symbolic Chinese new year recipes


Countdown to Chinese new year: 11 days
From spring rolls with plum, sticky rice cake, these recipes sauce all symbolic feature food that happy be in Chinese culture be considered. You are particularly popular in the Chinese new year, but you can enjoy all year!

Beef with Chinese green beans

Beef is paired with Szechuan style "Dry-fried" green beans in this fast and simple stir fry, reader in rated 5 out of 5 stars. If you want feel free by replacing to experiment the sauce in my other recipe for Chinese green beans the sauce in this recipe. Serve beef with Chinese green beans with rice or noodles for a complete meal.


 

Weekend cooking - pot stickers!


Pot stickers the perfect party food - are easy to make and impossible to eat just one! One of China's most popular dumplings, pot stickers are muted on the one hand and the other pan-fried.


Learn everything you need to know about making pot stickers serve including dip proposals and freezing tips, and try several pot stickers recipes, including a vegetarian version and pot stickers shrimp and coriander.


 

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Corruption of the Kitchen God with Chinese sticky cake (Nian GAO)


While food plays an important role new year Chinese throughout the season, instead of a food-like tradition finds, before the old year has come to an end. According to legend returns a week before the beginning of the Spring Festival, kitchen, God in the sky over a family report behavior during the previous year. Thus a favourable report from the Kitchen God the custom evolved Nian Gao feed him, both as a bribe as a means to ensure his mouth was passed too full of cake on a negative report! Learn more about the legend of the Kitchen God and try a basic recipe for steamed Nian Gao with glutinous rice flour and brown sugar.

Weekend cooking red cooked pork with beer

Red cooked dishes are the perfect cold weather food. Red cooking consists of gently FRY food in flavorful sauce-based liquid with sugar and spices like five spice powder.


 In this recipe for Red cooked pork chef Martin Yan bathes pork in a soy and five spice mix, and it then with an assortment of root vegetables in Tsingtao Lager Hoisin sauce roast beef.


 

To celebrate Chinese new year by Chinese dumplings


Delicious jiaozi dumplings are lucky considered due to its historical similarity with Chinese money. In the ancient Chinese currency, Yuan Bao was ingots called dumpling-shaped silver and gold.


The dumplings symbolize wealth and hopes for a profitable future. In northern China it is common for families, for hours before the Chinese new year prepare these delicious dumplings eaten after midnight.


 

Chinese traditional Gewürzten food - beef

 


Spiced beef cooking technique described this recipe is strange with the Chinese. Boiled beef, a Chinese cold favorite dish is cooled and cut into slices.


Ingredients:


1 Pound beef


Pinch powder chicken bouillon


few drops sesame oil


1 Tsp salt


Wet ingredients: 1/2 cup soya bean paste, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of wine, 1 / 2 can beer


Spices and flavors: pair Chinese cinnamon, 5 anise seeds, 1/2 oz green onion, 1/2 oz ginger squashed


Directions:


1. Submerge beef in water in the pot. Cook until meat gray and water goes out is foamy.


2. Drain beef. Dive into a fresh pot with water.


3. Add wet ingredients, salt, spices and flavors and cooking you again.


4. Skim off foam, reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours can all.


5. When beef is tender (can be easily pierced with a chopstick), heat to thicken to raise the sauce. Add powdered chicken bouillon and sesame oil flavor.


6. Cool (optional), slice and serve.

Chinese caramel pork

 


The Chinese caramel pork, known as "braised pork in brown sauce" the subtly combines the sweet aromas of caramel and salty soy sauce.


Ingredients:


600 g pork


2 Onions


1 Clove garlic


1 Lemon


8 TABLESPOONS soy sauce


2 Teaspoons pepper


2 Tablespoons wine


1 / 2 Cup water


2 Tablespoons sugar


2 Tablespoons oil


Recipe:


1. Cut the pork into cubes. In a bowl mix the soy sauce, cubes of pork and pepper. The meat is well coated in sauce. And let it cool for 1 hour.


2. Cut onion into thin slice, chop the garlic after removing the seeds. Press the lemon.


3. In a wok, add the onions in oil. Add the drained meat (keep the marinade!) and cooking you 7 to 8 minutes. Add garlic, lemon juice, water, wine and marinade. Cook over medium heat about 30 minutes.


4. Make a caramel by melting of sugar in a pan (high heat). If the caramel is Brown, pour in the wok and roughly bake twenty minutes.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Yummy Chinese Slobber chicken

This is a meal in Chinese style. To see the picture above, you probably have already slavered. It is named slobbering chicken. In fact, its production is very simple:
Ingredients:
Half a chicken
1 Tablespoon Chinese red pepper
1 TABLESPOON soy sauce
1 Tablespoon sugar
1 Tablespoon sesame paste
1 El sesame oil
1 Tbsp garlic paste
3 Bunch green onions, chopped
1 Tbsp wine
Boiled 2 tablespoons Sesame
1 Tablespoon paprika
1 Teaspoon vinegar
2 Teaspoons salt
Directions:
1. Wash the chicken with the clear waters. Boil some water in a saucepan and put chicken and Chinese red pepper in the pot. Cut the chicken in cold water for a few seconds after being boiled and then fish, a strip.
2. Add the soy sauce, sugar, sesame paste, sesame oil, garlic paste, green onions, wine, Sesame, red peppers, vinegar and salt in a large bowl and mix.
3. Add Chicken Strip in the sauce and mix together.

Chinese traditional food - Zongzi

 


Zongzi (a pyramid-shaped dumpling made glutinous rice in bamboo and Reed leaves wrapped)


Zongzi is similar to a traditional Chinese food Tamale. It is a special treat for the Duanwu Festival and Loong Boat Festival.


Ingredients:


1 Pound glutinous rice


1 / 2 Pounds red bean paste


3 Ounce preserved fruit


2 Oz raisins


20 Tracks bamboo dried leaves (available in Asian grocery stores)


Length of cotton twine or thread strong white


Directions:


1. Wash glutinous rice and soak for 4 hours, then drain.


2. Divide preserved fruit and raisin in 10 items.


3. Two overlapping bamboo along sheets to a sheet of one and-a-half wide leaves.


4. Fold the bamboo sheet to form a cone.


5. Add 1 tablespoon glutinous rice of the cone to add, then a portion of fruit and raisin preserve. Top with 1 tablespoon rice.


6. Folding at the edges of to cover the tip of the cone. Securely fasten with twine or thread so that no content leak out.


7. Cook Zongzi for three hours. Drain, then arrange on a platter and serve.

Chinese traditional food – rice cake

 


While northerners jiaozi, Chinese new year to celebrate food, people in the South can without rice cake (Niangao), because his debate be interpreted can, as "Life improves every year" believe that rice cake (Niangao) will bring food happiness on the eve of Chinese new year next year.


Ingredients:


10 Oz glutinous rice flour (available in Asian grocery stores)


1 Cup water


2 Ounces sugar


16 BER (Chinese date)


Received 2 oz fruit


Directions:


1. Mix thoroughly rice flour, water, sugar.


2. Add BER and preserved fruit, stir paste forms.


3. Spread the Paste on a slightly buttered heatproof plate.


4. Set the plate on a steamer tray and steam to heat for two hours.


The cake is done when a chopstick (or cake tester) inserted, clean out in the middle.

Chinese traditional food - Shaobing

 


Shaobing (baked crispy SESAM cake) is one of many cake eaten snacks for Chinese breakfast. Shaobing is as popular as American muffin or biscuit in China.


Ingredients:


1 Lb. self rising flour


1 Cup lukewarm water


2 Ounce peanut butter


1 Oz sesame


4 Tbsp syrup


Directions:


1. Mix flour with water and knead until soft dough forms (make sure batter is not sticky).


2. Roll dough out onto lightly floured surface into circle 1/3 inch thick.


3. Spread peanut butter on circle and circle curl to a log.


4. Slice log into 1.5 inch thick pieces. Flatten you pieces in about 1/3 inch thick cake.


5. Brush the surface of the cake with syrup and then Sprinkle sesame on the surface.


6. Bake the cake at 190 ° C until lightly browned.

Chinese traditional food - Laba porridge

 


Laba porridge (rice porridge with nuts and dried fruit etc) is an important part of traditional Chinese food, and there are many species in different regions of China. Laba porridge is known that every Chinese as it a particular day, namely the pay day of the 12th of lunar month, usually at the beginning of January. Most Chinese treat it as a reminder of the upcoming Chinese new year. In fact, Laba pulp originally used, to celebrate the day when Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism experienced his first revelation came after six years practicing asceticism, to survive on every day one meal of rice.


Ingredients:


6 Ounces sugar


Dry ingredients:


1 / 2 Pound glutinous rice; a total of 1/2 pounds red bean, mung bean, BER, peanuts and Lotus seeds (available in Asian grocery stores), or other nuts and dried fruit.


Directions:


1. Rinse the dry ingredients, then add you a pot, the half filled with water.


2. To cook turn and turn the heat to medium.


3. Add sugar and cook for 1.5 hours, until the ingredients are soft.


4. Stir, until blended and serve.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Chinese traditional food - moon cakes

 


Moon cake as the full moon, are traditional Chinese snacks for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which occurs when the Moon is the lightest on the fifteenth day of the 8th Chinese lunar month (located near the beginning of October). Chinese families are usually together that night and eating moon cakes with fruit and wine. As you enjoy the beauty of full moon, you remember the Moon Goddess, Chang's. This Festival is similar to the American Thanksgiving.


Ingredients:


1.5 Pound flour


6.5 Ounces butter


1/2 Cup water


3/4 Cup sugar


6.5 TBSP peanut oil


2 Ounce peanut kernel


5 Oz SESAM


1 Egg, beaten


1 Oz salt and pepper powder mix


Directions:


Dough:


1. Cut 6 oz butter in 0.5 pound flour to make "buttered dough". Split into 10 parts.


2. Melt 0.5 ounces of butter and 1/2 cup water. Stir in an another 0.5 pound flour to make "Water oil dough." Split into 10 parts.


Filling:


1. Steam last 0.5 pounds flour 15 minutes and let cool in a bowl. It should be slightly darker, to seek a rough texture and slightly hardened, but the lump should be easy to break.


2. SESAM, salt, sugar, peanut oil, peanut kernels and pepper powder, steamed flour and mix evenly. Divide the filling into 10 parts.


Ask the moon cake:


1. Flatten each piece of water oil dough into a circle, make a "wrapper".


2. Wrap a piece of dough reduce buttered each water oil dough circle and then again in a new circle (wrapper).


3. Distribute the filling under the wrappers, and each press molds, 3 or 4 inches in diameter in a floured pattern to bake a cake.


4. Brush the cake with the beaten egg. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until lightly browned at 180 ° C. Halfway through baking, turn the cake and brush the other side with the egg.

Chinese traditional food - jiaozi

 


The jiaozi is the traditional food, well received by the Chinese people. It is a kind of very tasty food. The jiaozi is the essential food in Chinese new year.


Ingredients:


1 Lb. flour


10 Oz pork


1 / 2 Pound cabbage, finely chopped mixed with 1 tablespoon to coat salad oil


3 Cups cold water


Wet ingredients: 1 / 2 tablespoons wine, 3 TABLESPOONS soy sauce, 3 tablespoons salad oil and 1 / 2 El sesame oil


Spices and flavors: 2 oz minced green onion I ounce of chopped ginger, 1 / 2 teaspoon salt, 1 / 4 teaspoon white pepper, 1 / 2 teaspoon sugar and 1 / 2 teaspoon of powder chicken bouillon


Directions:


Make the dough:


1. Mix flour with cold water in a food processor until it is tiny and wet pieces.


2. Give place the flour mixture into a bowl and knead the dough forms. Cover Bowl with plastic wrap drying to prevent.


Make the filling:


1. Pork with wet ingredients mix and stir in one direction until sticky.


2. Add spices and flavors, wait and again in the same direction until blended.


3. Cabbage and stir into the same direction until evenly mixed.


To make the jiaozi:


1. Knead and roll - a piece of dough into a log shape, about half an inch in diameter.


2. Cut the log-shaped dough into pieces of a square inch or less. Reduce the pieces with a rolling pin to make a thin circle 1.5 inches in diameter.


3Rd 1 / 2 teaspoon of filling (add more as you perfect your skills) in the center of each circle in half folds and edges with fingers, sealed until you are.


 


 

On the Menu of the Dominos Pizza

Domino Pizza restaurant is one of the largest chains of pizza places everywhere in the world. It began in a small town in Michigan, USA and has gained in popularity until there is more than 9,000 franchises everywhere in the world, today. Can find franchises throughout the 50 States and sometimes there are a number of them in the city. His patronage is solid and unwavering and still growing. This pizza place took the pizza pie in the streets of the Italy on the Atlantic Ocean and truly transformed it into the favorite food of Americans. Dark magpie has been filled with upholstery and oven baked to perfection, so that he won the heart and the palate of most Americans.


Available popular pizzas are divided into two categories - American legends and holidays. American legends include 8 different classic pizza toppings amazing aimed to please the masses. 6 Wisconsin cheese pizza is close to the original pie simply as may it be, made with rich tomato sauce and cheese of old while. Hawaiian Honolulu and the Fiery Hawaiian Pizza Pizza helps bridge the gap between this group remote islands and North America. The Steak Pizza of cheese Philly, chicken BBQ's Memphis pie, pie of Cali Bacon chicken Ranch and chicken Buffalo person brings real life taste of America. There veggie lovers, you have the Pacific Veggie pizza consisting of pads of fresh vegetables that complement the celestial cheese.


Other hand so simply you go nuts and celebrates the holiday category is where you look. There are 6 pies you can choose from but everyone is so filled with toppings that you'll never feel like you missed next to one. ExtravaganZZa, day celebration of the MeatZZa and the feast Delux come topped with different types of meat and vegetables. Day Bacon Cheeseburger and celebrate America's Favorite perhaps not many types of toppings but have so much that its taste and quality are not hindered in any way. All these can be ordered in four different crusts, and you can even add the toppings of your choice if you want.


Apart from pizza, there are a number of other dishes that are offered on the Domino Pizza Menu. There are plenty of snacks in which the breadsticks and sauce inclinése so cheesy chicken wings are most famous. Another excellent addition is cinnamon breadsticks. But it isn't everything. You can also obtain various sandwiches and pasta are served round bread carved to form a bowl. Although there are not many choices in dessert cake of lava that they serve is incredible. Menus in various locations around the world have incorporated some special dishes to satisfy the local courthouse. These deductibles may have changed the flavor a bit, but the integrity of the site has not changed at all.

Restaurants of Fame in New York City - where they eat?

Where New York celebrities to go out for dinner? It is the fans question seriously expect a reply to. While an ordinary person can find unlikely as their idols, they are entitled to lunch and dining at the restaurant even where their stars eat. There is no law preventing them from doing so. [In addition, there is no law preventing shutdown] eat and fans waiting in restaurants where their idols would possibly be eating. This is what this article is. This article is about celebrity restaurants in New York. Here fans of their respective personalities will know where they may meet their superstar and your chance to meet or even speak to them. Now, we start.


Although it is hard, restaurants in New York celebrity City finds himself with a poor effort. One way to find these restaurants where celebrities go is to know what celebrities are looking for in a restaurant and a particular restaurant that meets flavoured their idols of research. This method might be difficult, but it is still in force. Another way to do is follow your celebrity admired for 24 hours and wait dine for dinner. It is very difficult and impractical. On the other hand, many journalists and media men do that and it is a test if you are really a big fan. Also, it could also have a chance to meet a celebrity by searching for the best restaurant. There is good chance that these high-winning celebrities would only dinner in first-class restaurants. Nevertheless, more convenient way to search for restaurants where stars could eventually dinner is looking for evidence of people and news on the topic to see the stars in a restaurant in particular. It the method that should be used that this process has proven to be more reasonable and more precise.


Among celebrity New York restaurants is the Lion Restaurant. In this restaurant, stars like Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Jessica Parker have been identified. What makes visiting this restaurant is the fact that this restaurant is not crowded. Celebrities like above love such a particular restaurant. They can relax here and break free from the stress caused by tying it but often irritating fans. In contrast, they hate the restaurants that are filled with people. The celebrities put in eyes very public criticism and should realize that their profession calls for the same, a bit of peace would help them relax their lives very challenging.


Lion restaurant offers subtle peace this desire of these celebrities. Food in Lion's Restaurant in New York can be neglected, too. This restaurant offers more than ordinary meal. Knowing that celebrities visit usually their place, the owner of Restaurant Lion made a point to offer cuisines and dishes adapted to their client standards in life. Then it can be argued that the price of food in this restaurant is a little expensive, none could be argued that this restaurant is one of the best options for celebrity dinner. With this information, visit the site now. Who knows? Perhaps, one day of your visit, your just dream star would be a table you.

Lo Bello-Italian Restaurant in freehold, NJ review

I love eating outside, especially Italian food. My sister lives in Manalapan, New Jersey and mentioned a new restaurant called Lo Bello, so we decided to do a test. I must say that I am pleased that we have. The restaurant is located on southern freehold Street (which is a very nice place if you've never visited) and is truly unique. The Interior is warm and frankly I was reminded of an institution which would be in Manhattan. With its tapestries hung ceilings and the outdoor kitchen, I was pleasantly surprised to find something like that in Jersey.


Anyway, the wait staff was pleasant and suggests that we should have (seasonal figs as a pesce di appetizers and zuppa for one entry) that we tried. The only thing that best was that food portions. The plates are big that we liked and the taste was incredible. After we ate, the owner of Roberto came to our table to ask how everything what was, and we told him we were happy. Learning that I was in New York, he did what would be a smart businessman and a leader to meet my sister and I (I say smart businessman because since this visit I travelled StatenIsland 45 minutes to the freehold to eat it 3 times more). Chef Ciro was very pleasant and told us about his experience of CEO etc. Turns out that he was also the head of the head to one of Staten Island beautiful restaurants years (small world). I was impressed by the fact that the head was actually Italian. Anyone who has already worked in a restaurant/meeting chef Italian restaurant can attest that 9 of 10 times the head not even Italian. Tonight, we left and received a certificate of 10% off the coast of our next tour, which we used on our next trip.


All in all an experience very enjoyable and delicious cuisine. Prices was moderate and since its a bring your own creation of liquor I find Bill still more attractive. You can consult the atmosphere, menu and prices by visiting their website here Lo Bello Restaurant and they accept online bookings.

Information on the various dishes offered at a Taco Bell

Taco Bell is a chain of fast food joints proud of good Mexican food and very fast service. This commune has begun in Irving, California, United States of America. His popularity grew so dramatically which suddenly little Taco Bell franchise began to open in cities across California and the West Coast soon. As its popularity spread and chain went national. Today there are nearly 5,800 restaurants in the U.S. alone. This popularity also spread worldwide and it y Taco bells in countries such as the Australia, Greece, China, Cyprus, Iceland, India and the Mexico as well as other countries like the Philippines and the Poland.


The main type of food available at these restaurants is prepared Mexican style which is slightly adapted to the palaces of the American public. His most famous dishes are tacos and burritos. There are 14 different tacos from the menu, each with its own unique style and stuffing. Traditionally the tacos are made from corn shells and here in this restaurant of things are no different. There are some tacos can be ordered in a crunchy corn shell or in a flour tortilla fresh depending on what you choose. Most tacos filled with ground beef is cooked in spices, vegetables such as lettuce and ripe tomatoes and shredded in special sauces complement the filling. Each is topped with cheese offshore. For those who went to the vegetarian route, that you que vous pouvez pouvez ordered the crispy potato Soft Taco is filled with bite of crispy potatoes instead of meat and other stuffing is the same. Another speciality taco is the volcano Taco served in red corn shell special and topped off with a special sauce of molten lava. This particular overload is very spicy and should only be judged by those who are brave of heart.


Another favorite is the burrito. There are 16 burritos you can choose from. The only common thing in these burritos is the fact that they all wrapped in tortillas soft flour and are filled with Spiced rice and Bean apart from the other stuffing. Each burrito has a variety of different meats prepared in their own special way. It is added to the regular farce with vegetables and topped with cheese offshore sour cream sauce. Cream sauce sure is reduced fat cheese isn't too, also fresh vegetables are a healthy meal as well as a delicious meal.


Besides the burritos, Taco Bell's Menu also has a number of dishes such as Gorditas and Chalupas. Gorditas are very similar to tacos, but are served in a soft bread instead of corn shells. The chalupas again are taco flat type served in shells of chalupa instead of those of maize. You can also choose from a selection of salads are served in a shell of tortillas crispy. The menu also offers a variety of beverages and fruit based specialty drinks.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Visit Geneva Lake two bars

Trying to decide which Lake Geneva Bars to visit when you arrive to the city? Should not be whether to worry about just having a good guide for you can weed through the bars are not visit.


I can help because I've been attending Bars in Lake Geneva for more than 20 years. I've seen of all. Some institutions stand over others because of certain qualities they possess.


Here are a few criteria that seek to determine the best bars of Lake Geneva:
AtmosphereDrink SelectionsDrink price/SpecialsFood Menu OptionsCustomer Service

All these factors must be present to be regarded as the best. To be honest, for most institutions, it is a difficult task. For one reason or another, it is difficult for many institutions for combining all these qualities. However, there are a few taverns that rise above the others when it comes to these factors.


Of course, where you can get depends greatly on your choice. Many bars have very different personalities, and you can certainly find something that meets your desires.


If you are looking for a bar of Geneva Lakes area who can provide you with an atmosphere pleasant, while offering great drinks, food and service look no further than the Harpoon Willies.


Located in Williams Bay, Harpoon Willies (or Poons as locals name it) combines the great drinks, food, atmosphere and service and is the most pleasant bar around the Lake. He was also a huge screened porch overlooking beautiful Lake Geneva.


Owned and managed by the family LaCorix, Harpoon Willies combines the small city of the customer service of quality and the atmosphere that you would be happy to get anywhere. 5 HDTV flat screen to watch your favorite team easy and fun. There is no game Cubs or brewers that we don't get! In addition, Wi-Fi access is available, so bring your lap top of page if necessary. If you simply visit the area, be sure to stop by Willies Harpoon more enjoyable experience that lac Léman Bars have to offer.


Other popular bars of Geneva Lake include fields, Carvettis, pigs and kisses, Next Door Pub, Foleys, chucks, to name a few. You will find that there is an abundance of options in the Lake Geneva region.