Chinese food recipes
Shanghai fried turnip cake
Shanghai fried turnip cake Recipe Makes six Ingredients 900g Chinese turnip, grated 30g dried shrimp 20g dried Chinese mushrooms 1 tbl oil 3 spring onions, thinly sliced 3 teaspoons sugar 3 teaspoons Shaoxing rice wine 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper 2 tbls finely chopped coriander 280g rice flour Oil for frying Method Place the [...]
Eating placenta, an age-old practice in China
After Wang Lan delivered, she brought home a baby girl and her placenta, which she plans to eat in a soup — adopting an age-old practice in Chinese traditional medicine. The health-giving qualities of placenta are currently creating a buzz in Western countries, where some believe it can help ward off postnatal depression, improve breast [...]
Shanghai sheng jian bao上海小杨生煎包
Shanghai sheng jian bao上海小杨生煎包 Fried dumpling is a native Shanghai dim sum which has a long history of more than 100 years. Fresh meat and Roupi Dong are wrapped with semi-fermented flour first, and then placed in rows on the pan to get fried. While frying, moisten the Fried dumpling with cold water for [...]
Salt and Pepper Spareribs Chinese food recipe
Salt and Pepper Spareribs Chinese food recipe Ingredients: 3/4 lb. (350g) spareribs 4 cups (1 litre) vegetable oil for deep-frying 1 tbsp rice wine 5 tsp. spiced pepper-salt 1 tbsp soy sauce 2 tbsp cornstarch (corn flour) 1/4 tsp. MSG (optional) Directions: 1. Wash the spareribs and chop into pieces, 2 inches long and 3/4 [...]
Twice-Cooked Pork Chinese food recipe
Ingredients: 1 lb (450g) fresh boneless pork or fresh, uncured ham 2 tbsp soybean paste 3 oz (80g) scallions or garlic shoots 1 tbsp sweet bean sauce 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1/4 cup meat stock 1 tablespoon soy sauce Directions: 1. Wash the pork, drop it into boiling water to cover, and parboil [...]
Shanghai Won-Ton Soup Recipe
Won-Ton Soup Recipe Chinese Soup Ingredients: 1/2 pound ground pork 1/2 cup waterchestnuts, canned — drained and minced 1 1/2 Tablespoons minced green onions 4 ounces canned shrimp — drained and chopped 1 1/2 Tablespoons minced ginger — fresh 1 1/2 teaspoons sesame oil 1 eas egg white — lightly beaten 1 Tablespoon soy sauce [...]
Shanghai Jiaozi – Chinese Dumplings Recipe
Shanghai Jiaozi – Chinese Dumplings Recipe Ingredients: ***Jiaozi dough:*** 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/4 cup ice cold water (as needed) 1/4 teaspoon salt ***Filling:*** 1 cup ground pork or beef 1 1/2 tablespoon soy sauce 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine or dry sherry 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper, or to [...]
What is Ginseng
What is Ginseng? Ginseng root is native to eastern Asia and North America, and has been in use as a folk medicine and tonic amongst the peoples of China, Korea, Thailand, Viet Nam and Manchuria, as well as amongst Native Americans, for untold thousands of years. Frequently used as a potent preventative rather than a [...]
Xierou Shizitou (meatball stuffed with crabmeat)
Ingredients: 300 grams of pork, 12 grams of cabbage, 50 grams of crabmeat, 25 grams of crab spawn, 20 grams of musgroom slice Method: 1. Put the pork into the pot with chives and ginger ends, crabmeat, crab spawn, rice wine, salt, white pepper and mix them with starch. 2. Make them into 6 meatballs [...]
Doufu Kou San Si (steamed tofu with mixed slices)
Ingredients: ham, bamboo shoot, chicken, dried mushroom, dried shrimp, Azumaya tofu Method: 1. slice the ham, bamboo shoot and chicken into filaments 2. Extrude water from Azumaya tofu and triturate it, add dreid shrimp, died mushroom, ham sclicesand some salt and pepperinto the triturated tofu and mix them together. 3. put a dried mushroom at [...]
