Serve topped with shallots.
Cuisine - Chinese recipes
Dec 222009
Chongqing chilli chicken
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Dec 222009
The spicy chicken is buried under a heaped pile of dried chillies that are there to flavour the chicken, not to be eaten.
Ants climbing trees
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Dec 222009
Minced pork supposedly looks like ants climbing the “branches” of the tree, which are the noodles. Use transparent glass noodles, also called mung bean or bean thread noodles, which are brittle and white when dry.
Dumplings in chilli oil
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Dec 222009
Pick up a pack of fresh wonton wrappers and a lethal-looking bottle of chilli oil – the one with chilli flecks in it – at a Chinese food store, and serve these chilli oil dumplings as a starter or part of a Chinese meal.
Claypot crab with glass noodles
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Dec 222009
Recipe from Travel and Leisure Magazine.
Chicken and sweetcorn soup
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Jul 292009
This is such an easy soup. You can puree it, leave it in delicious chunky pieces or, like me, have a bit of both. Use good quality homemade stock if you can, as it is nutritious and so easy to make. For a soup “to go”, package up the garnishes separately. Also good with fresh egg noodles; pack separately with heating instructions.
Chicken san choi bau
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Jul 292009
Everyone loves these little lettuce parcels filled with stir-fried chicken, mushrooms and oyster sauce. Serve with steamed rice or vermicelli noodles as a main course, with a little hoisin sauce if you like.
Snow peas with a hint of pork
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Jul 212009
One of my favourite ways to prepare snow peas is to blanch them for 2-3 minutes in salted boiling water and then to toss them immediately with a good knob of butter and a couple of tablespoons of toasted sesame seeds.
Chicken and snow peas in black bean sauce
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Jul 212009
When cooked properly, the pods retain their bright green colour and just a little crispness, especially when quickly stir-fried in a wok. They are flat with just a hint of the new peas rippling the surface.
Jul 212009
Try this quick and easy prawn recipe.
Jul 212009
They’re found around the coast and are very good eating – sweet, white and small-flaked, not unlike whiting. They are especially good for people who don’t like “fishy” fish, the oilier types such as sardines and mackerel.
Chicken with black bean and coriander
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Jul 212009
The fresh leaves as well as the tender roots are used to flavour many classic oriental preparations, such as a Thai green curry paste, but the dried seeds are indispensable in everyday staples such as curry powder, Indian masalas, chutneys, sausages, frankfurts and hot dogs.
Duck and lychee salad
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Jul 212009
Lychees are excellent in a salad with fruits that complement their texture and flavour, such as apricots, white and black muscat grapes, raspberries, mango and their close relatives, longans and rambutans. Their inimitable sweetness and perfume produce excellent gelato and lychees can be wonderful added to a sauce at the very last minute for roasts such as duck, quail or pork.
Chinese-style dry-seared beans
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Jul 212009
There are so many types in the bean family it can be confusing for the cook. There’s no need to worry, however, because they’re surprisingly similar in the kitchen.
Jul 212009
This dish is adapted from Neil Perry’s book Simply Asian.
