Category Archives: Potato

Fish, Potato, Uncategorized

Fish & Potato Chips

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My husband is a big fan of fish and chips. So I tried to cook this dish at home.
I cooked two kinds of fried fish fillet.
First, cut fish fillet into smaller size. And marinated with a little salt and black pepper.


1st. In a bowl, mix a small bowl of flour, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp vinegar and a small bowl of water. Stir well into batter.
Dip fish in batter. Then fry till golden brown.


2nd. Coat fish with a thin layer of flour, than egg and bread crumb at last.
Fry in oil till golden brown.
After tasting this two kinds of fried fish, I like the bread crumb one more. Because I think it tastes more crispy. But my husband loved them both.


Potato chips fried in oil for around 5-7 minutes, till they get golden brown.

Chinese, Pork, Potato, Quick recipe, Uncategorized

Stir Fry Pork With Potato Slices

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Chinese ways of cooking potatoes are very different from western ones. 

Ingredients:

Pork (cut into thin slices, marinated with a little salt, light soy sauce and corn starch)

Potato (cut into thin slices)

Bell pepper ( cut into small pieces)

Light soy sauce

Salt

Water

1. Put potato slices in boiling water till they are almost done. Take them out, rinse and drain.

2. Heat some oil in the pan. Put in pork. Stir fry till pork gets golden brown.

3. Add in bell pepper and potato slices with 1 tsp light soy sauce, a little salt and water. Quick stir fry for 2-3 mins.


Quick and easy Chinese cuisine.

Chinese, Potato, Quick recipe, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Stir-fried Three Vegetables

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Its Chinese name is “地三鲜” (di San xian). Di means ground, earth. San means three. Xian means fresh vegetable. So it’s a dish consists of three vegetables which are eggplant, potato and bell pepper. It’s a typical northeastern Chinese cuisine, and it’s also one of my favorite dishes. First time I tried it because one of my roommates in university is from northeastern China. She recombined it. For a vegetables person like me, I fell in love with this dish immediately.

Ingredients:

Potato ( chopped into evenly small or medium pieces. Small ones are easy to cook, but if you are patient enough, medium ones are also fine. ).

  Eggplant ( also chopped into even pieces, can be a little bigger than potato piece). 

chopped bell pepper. Chopped garlic, oil, light soy sauce, sugar, starch, water, salt.

1. Heat oil in the pan. Oil should be more than usual. Because eggplant will absorb much oil when frying.

2. Fry potato first. When the potato pieces turn golden brown, they can be taken out.

3. Then fry eggplant pieces till they get brown too. If the oil is dry, a little more oil can be added.

4. Fried potato and eggplant in the plate and put aside.

5. A little oil in the pan. Heat it.

6. Add in the chopped garlic.

7. Then the fried potato and eggplant. Stir fry evenly.

8. Put in the chopped bell pepper. Stir fry a little.

9. Add in light soy sauce, salt and sugar. Stir fry for another 2-3 minutes.

10. At last add in starchy water. Quick stir fry a little. And it’s done.

Starchy water is often used in Chinese dishes. It will make the dish look brighter in color.

Beef, Chinese, Potato, Uncategorized

Braised Beef With Potato

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Ingredients:

Beef ( cut into medium pieces)

Potatoes (chopped into medium pieces)

Light soy sauce

Dark soy sauce

Cooking wine

Salt sugar

Ginger

Star anise

1. Beef pieces in boiling water till water gets boiled again. Take beef out, rinse and drain.

2. Heat some oil in the pan. Put in 2 or 3 ginger slices. Then put in beef, add a little cooking wine. Stir fry for a while.

3. Put in potato pieces. Stir fry till the edge gets a little golden brown.

4. Add in hot water covers all ingredients. Also add 1 or 2 star anise, 1 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp dark soy sauce, 1 tsp sugar. Braised with medium heat.

5. When water reduces to less than 1/3 and potatoes become softened. Turn to high height. Keep stir frying till sauce becomes dry.


Potatoes are very soft and tasty.

Potato, Quick recipe, Soup, Uncategorized

Bacon Potato Soup

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1. Cut potato and onion into small pieces. (Here I used two potatoes and one onion.)

2. Heat the oil in the pan. Put in the bacon bits. When the bacon bits get a little burnt, take them out.

3. Stir fry onion first. Then the potato pieces.

4. Add in enough water that covers potato pieces. Boil them till potato gets soft.

5. Use blender to smash potatoes.

6. Put smashed potato back into the pan. Add a little water or the soup will get burnt easily. Also add in light cream, salt and black pepper powder. Keep stirring till all the things mix well.

Ladle the soup out into bowl, and add in the bacon bits. 

Potato, Quick recipe, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Mashed Potato

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Potatoes peeled off and steamed or boiled.

Mash them in a large bowl. Then add in some vegetables bits. ( I used carrot, sweet peas and corn. Boiled already). Mix them well. Add in a little salt and black pepper powder.

If you also fry steak as I did. Don’t throw away the butter left in the pan.

Heat the butter again. Put in onion and carrot slices. Keep stir frying till carrots get a little burnt. Then add in water covers all ingredients in the pan. Cook for around 5 minutes. Then take all the carrot and onion out. Just leave sauce in the pan. Add some flour and oil in a bowl, mix them well. Then add the batter into the pan. Keep stirring till the sauce gets condensed. If you think it’s a bit plain, you can add a little salt. Then pour the sauce onto mashed potato in the plate.

Potato, Quick recipe, Soup, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Tomato & Potato Soup

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It’s a very easy soup.

Ingredients:

A little garlic and ginger granules.

3 medium tomatoes ( peeled and chopped into small pieces)

5 small potatoes ( peeled and chopped into small pieces)

Salt, 1 tsp sugar, black pepper powder, 1 tsp cream (optional), water.

1. Heat a little oil in the pan, and put garlic and ginger in. Stir fry a bit.

2. Put all the tomato pieces and potato pieces in. Stir fry a little.

3. Add in water cover all ingredients. Then turn to low heat, and cover the pan with lid.

4. Simmer till potato softened and soup condensed. 

5. Add in cream and sugar. Stir evenly. Last put in salt and black pepper powder.


It goes well with homemade bread.

Chinese, Pork, Potato, Uncategorized

Braised Pork With Potato And Vermicelli

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Apart from dumpling, vermicelli is another food to help me with my nostalgia.

Vermicelli is a commonly seen food in northern part of China, especially in winter. Just imagine, it’s chilling outside, and you have a bowl of braised pork with vermicelli on your table. All the coldness will be gone.
Ingredients:

Oil, pork (cut into slices), potato ( chopped into medium pieces), vermicelli, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, salt, water.

1. 


Heat oil in the pan, put in pork slices. Pork with a little fat would be perfect and it will taste better. The oil will come from the fat. Stir fry till the pork turn a bit brown.
2.


Add in potato pieces. Keep stir frying till the edge of potato turns transparent.
3.


Add in a little dark soy sauce and some light soy sauce. Keep stir frying till each pork and potato piece coated with soy sauce.
4.


Add in water enough to cover all ingredients in the pan. Then cover the pan with lid. Braise with medium heat.
5.


When the water becomes less, and potato softens, put in vermicelli. The vermicelli I used is easy to cook. Only takes five minutes to be cooked. And no need to be soaked in the water before cooking. Please read instruction on the vermicelli’s pack before cooking.
Vermicelli will be softened. Then stir it with potato and pork.


You can use chopsticks to stir vermicelli, because it’s easy for them to stick together.
After around 5 minutes, the dish is done when vermicelli is done. You’d better try it to make it’s truly done. Add in salt. And stir evenly.

Vermicelli will become transparent. And potato also tasty for braised with pork and soy sauce for such a long time.