Please share your favourite CHINESE food recipes?

[Speed.deman]

All meats and vegetables welcome!

I'm still looking for the perfect fried rice recipe too...

Lastly, what are the "essentials" you keep in your kitchen to get your chinese cookery going?

[C0ffin D0dger]

Speed.deman said:

All meats and vegetables welcome!

I'm still looking for the perfect fried rice recipe too...

Lastly, what are the "essentials" you keep in your kitchen to get your chinese cookery going?

Did quite a nice easy one last night, stir fry pork and greens.

Slice up some pork loin chops into strips after trimming of the fat. Put them in a bowl and add a good splash of dark soy, sesame oil, and rice wine. Then some cornflour, about a teaspoon for two chops, and some pepper. Stir and set aside. Ideally leave this for an hour or so or even overnight in the fridge.

Prep the following, few spring onions sliced into ~inch long bits, grate some ginger (thumb sized bit or more for two), and a good quantity of "greens" for however many your cooking for. In last night's I did kale and green beans. Also make up a bit of chicken stock, from a cube is fine, and only about 100-150ml required for two.

And now to the cooking. Nice hot wok, splash of ground nut oil and in with the pork. Cooked until browned / golden and remove to a plate / bowl, take a few minutes. Little more oil into the wok if needed, add the onions and ginger. Stir fry for about a minute to release the aroma. Now add a good dollop of sweet chilli sauce, stir round and cook for a bit longer. Add the veg and stir fry until its wilted, now chuck the pork back in, add a splash of soy sauce, splash of rice wine, and the chicken stock. You want enough in there to allow the veg to cook / steam. Turn the heat down and put the lid on the wok.

Let it cook until the veg is tender but still has a bit of "squeak". I serve it with boiled jasmine rice.

My main cupboard / fridge things for Chinese are:

Five Spice Mix
White pepper
Soy sauce (dark and light)
Sesame oil
Groundnut oil (good for high temperatures)
Rice wine
Sweet chilli sauce
Ginger
Garlic
Chillies
Noodles
Rice

and other stuff I can't think of.

[Rick101]

Followed this Insta for a while. Finally made something last night. Delicious. Really good resource.

https://omnivorescookbook.com/

[zygalski]

Yan-Kit's chicken glazed in hoisin sauce with cashews:
https://www.cooks.com/recipe/b31hf4d2/yan-kits-chi...
I substitute thighs for chicken breast. Lovely served on simply boiled egg noodles

[Speed.deman]

Thank all. Do keep them coming. The more hyperlinks the better!

[Your Dad]

Try here - http://thewoksoflife.com/

Chairman Mao’s red braised pork belly, chicken & broccoli in brown sauce and easy Peking duck are some of my favourites.

[red22]

I always ended up spending forever chopping garlic, ginger and spring onion. Nowadays chuck 2 bunches spring onions, whole bulb garlic and a couple of healthy lumps of ginger in the processor. Then divide by putting 2 tbs into sandwich bags and freezing.

As most Chinese recipes call for the meat to be cooked first, l marinate precook and freeze chicken cubes.

If I'm doing beef I tend to swap cornflower for custard powder. Gives a nice taste. Don't get alarmed custard powder is only cornflower, a bit of vanilla and colour.

[Mastodon2]

Check out Ziang's Food Workshop on YouTube.

[imck]

Rick Steins Chinese Pork Belly
Very flavoursome. Served with plain Rice and Pak Choi.

http://noshanduttertosh.blogspot.com/2012/03/rick-...

[Luca Brazzi]

Marion's Kitchen....YouTube channel.....out of this world.

Tonight we made crispy honey chilli beef....like the 19080's Chinese.....only home made and incredible.....

https://www.marionskitchen.com/crispy-honey-chilli...

YouTube video here:
https://youtu.be/4-Gl4iToK30

[Gandahar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAg2-ydugTw

[zygalski]

imck said:

Rick Steins Chinese Pork Belly
Very flavoursome. Served with plain Rice and Pak Choi.

http://noshanduttertosh.blogspot.com/2012/03/rick-...

This is very good. I've done it half a dozen times.

[red22]

[URL] CrispyChilliBeef|http://dumplingsisters.com/search?s=Chilli+beef[URL]

[red22]

Oops sorry. Works well for me and it's easy.


Crispy Chilli Beef

[putonghua73]

Your Dad said:

Try here - http://thewoksoflife.com/

Chairman Mao’s red braised pork belly, chicken & broccoli in brown sauce and easy Peking duck are some of my favourites.

Well done on finding this site. It is a very good site for Chinese food. Another good site is: www.chinasichuanfood.com

Chinese kitchen staples:

1. Garlic
2. Spring Onion
3. Light Soy Sauce
4. Salt

Additional staples:

1. Chinese Vinegar
2. Dark Soy Sauce
3. Shaoxing Wine (Cooking)
4. Decent Noodles (I usually buy Korean or Taiwanese)
5. Pork Belly
6. Doubanjiang (used for many spicy dishes, especially mapo dofu)
7. Sichuan peppercorns
8. La Jiao (Chinese dried peppers)

Other items that you may need:

1. Star Anise
2. Rock Sugar
3. Chilli flakes

Plenty of optional items like Hoisin sauce, Oyster sauce, Black Bean sauce, etc. I make my own chilli oil.

Make sure that you buy decent soy sauces, Chinese vinegar, Shaoxing wine and noodles.
Dishes that I recommend and are easy to make:

Beef:

1. Hunan Beef
2. Spicy Beef Noodle Soup
3. Lanzhou Beef Noodle Soup

Chicken:

1. Sichuan La Zi Ji
2. Chongqing Mala Ji
3. Da Pan Ji
4. Chicken w/ Garlic Sauce

Fish:

1. Hong Shao Yu
2. Salt & Pepper Shrimp
3. Shui Zhu Yu
4. Steamed Whole Fish

Pork:

1. Suan Ni Bi Rou
2. Hong Shao Rou
3. Chairman Mao's Pork Belly
4. Sichuan Three Pepper Pork Belly Stir Fry
5. Twice Cooked Pork
6. Zhu Rou Dou Fen Tiao

Soup:

1. Suan La Tang
2. Luo Song Tang

Vegan:

1. Mapo dofu - I make a vegan version
2. Steamed Eggplant
3. Eggplant w/ Garlic Sauce
4. Gan Bian Si Ji dou
5. Chinese Pickled Cucumber
6. General Tso's Tofu
7. Di San Xian
8. Ma La Xiang Guo (this is a couple times a year recipe only - fantastic taste!)

If you are feeling brave and/or are entertaining Chinese people:

1. Chinese Chicken Feet (perfect snack with beer for Chinese)

If drinking beer after, I'd also advise drunken nuts re: stir fry peanuts in oil, add plenty of salt and drink with beer (and Chicken feet ^).

FWIW, I cook the above for my partner, who is mainland Chinese - I'm vegetarian. She is sadly defective i.e. a Chinese woman who cannot cook. I should have chose Korean - could have at least returned her under warranty within 7 years!

Ok. How to do egg fried rice.
1. Use left-over rice from day before (rice cooker)
2. Break an egg into a small bowl and stir thoroughly
3. Chop a spring onion

Wok on high heat, wait until smokes, add vegetable oil, wait until smokes, add rice and immediately stir (do not stop stirring), add in egg, and keep stirring, once egg solidifies into little pieces, add spring onion and a little salt; keep stirring. Switch off and eat. Soy sauce is generally not added (except for Chinese takeaways catering to the Western palate).

The key is left-over rice from the day before (put it in the fridge). Freshly cooked rice will stick, and will not crisp.

Edited by putonghua73 on Monday 20th January 13:57

Edited by putonghua73 on Monday 20th January 13:58

[madcowman]

Grab a copy of this : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chinese-Takeaway-Cookbook...

Did a course with him this weekend with a few of the recipes from his new book. The hot and sour soup is fantastic.

[LeadFarmer]

A fast & easy way of making sweet & sour sauce is equal measures of the following...

Rice wine vinegar
Sugar
Tomato ketchup

Stir in a saucepan whilst heating. Done!

Add pieces of pineapple to improve further.

Edited by LeadFarmer on Monday 20th January 23:34

[trickywoo]

Chinese five spice is the simple answer for me at the moment.

I just add a generous shake, with some oil, to chopped chicken to marinate. Maybe some garlic too.

Then stir fry with veg of you choice. Douse with soy near the end and mix with some egg noodles.

[LeadFarmer]

Three of my favourite Chinese cooking youtubers...


Ziangs Food Workshop - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZuRdOmjTkCwi8WlS...
Marions Kitchen - https://www.youtube.com/user/Marionskitchen/videos
Alex Wilkies - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCgokDPHo27pO-HBC...

[SpeckledJim]

LeadFarmer said:

Three of my favourite Chinese cooking youtubers...


Ziangs Food Workshop - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZuRdOmjTkCwi8WlS...
Marions Kitchen - https://www.youtube.com/user/Marionskitchen/videos
Alex Wilkies - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCgokDPHo27pO-HBC...

HUGE endorsement for Ziangs. Transformative effect on my previously poor Chinese.