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 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.

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.