One of my husband’s favorite dishes.
1. Cut Tofu into evenly small pieces. Silk Tofu would be the best choice. You can also use egg Tofu.
2. In a bowl mix a lot corn starch with a little salt.
3. Dip Tofu in the corn starch.
4. Then deep fry them till corn starch shell becomes hard and a bit golden brown.
5. Serve with mayonnaise or salad cream.
It’s a super easy snack.
Ingredients:
Puff pastry
Egg
Chopped almond or grate almond
Sugar
1. Brush puff pastry with egg.
2. Sprinkle sugar and grate almond over it evenly.
3. Use a rolling pin roll the pastry to press almond and sugar into it. Or you can just use your palm.
4. Flip the pastry over and repeat step 1,2 & 3.
5. Cut pastry into strips. And twist them slightly.
6. Preheat oven to 200 degree C. At the same time, let the pastry rest for around 10 mins.
6. Bake for 15-20 mins. Till they turn golden brown.
It’s a traditional Chinese snack. And it’s very easy to make.
Ingredients:
Butter 100g softened
Sugar 60 g
Egg (half for the dough, half to brush on the dough)
Flour 180g
Baking soda 1/2 tsp
Salt 1 pinch
Cashew nuts some
1. Cream butter with sugar in a bowl.
2. Add in half egg. Stir well.
3. Add in dry ingredients ( flour, baking soda and salt).
4. Knead all ingredients into a dough ball. And refrigerate for 30 mins.
5. Divide the big dough into many small ones. Each is around 8-9 g.
6. Preheat oven to 175 degree C.
7. Brush small dough balls with egg. Then press cashew nut on each one lightly.
8. Brush egg on cashew and dough again.
9. Bake for 20 mins.
They smell so good and taste very nice as well. Very crispy.
Sprinkle a little salt and black pepper over chickenbreast for a little while.
Coat chickenbreast with a thin layer of flour, then egg and bread crumbs last.
Heat some oil in the pan. Fry both sides till golden brown.
After cooled, cut into small pieces. Spread the sauce you like.
My husband and I love crispy pork chop. However, deep fried crispy chop pork needs too much oil. So it’s not a good option for me when I prepare daily meals. This recipe is very easy. No oil is needed.
1. Pound pork chop several times on each side. Sprinkle some salt and black pepper for a while.
2. Coat pork chop with a layer of flour, then egg and bread crumbs at last. (Bread crumbs need to be stir fried in the pan till golden brown).
3. Preheat oven to 200 degree C. Put pork chop in the oven for 20 mins.
4. Out in the plate, cool and cut into small pieces.
It’s super easy. All you need are one banana, one puff pastry (or you can use a roti prata pastry like I did), one egg.
1. Cut roti prata in two halves.
2. Put banana slices on one half. And put the other half on the top.
3. Use a folk to press the edge. Put banana pie back to fridge for 10 mins.
4. Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
5. Brush egg on the pie’s surface. And bake for 25 mins.
When it’s almost done, the whole kitchen is full of good smell.
My husband loves it and soon finished it.
Use knife to make one or two slices on the thick skin. Then prepare celery leaves, onion, and garlic. Chop them into small granules or pieces. Sprinkle some salt on knuckle. Then cover the knuckle with chopped vegetable mixture and wrap them tightly with a plastic outside. Put in the fridge overnight.
1. Take off the plastic wrap and wash off the vegetable mixture on the surface.
2. Steam knuckle for 50 mins.
3. Preheat oven to 220 degree C. Put steamed knuckle in oven and bake for 40 mins. You can move the knuckle to make the color evenly brown while baking.
After baking, the skin of knuckle becomes very crispy. The inside is very tender and juicy.
Wing sticks are much smaller than chicken legs. So it’s easy to cook them. That’s why I chose to fry chicken wingstick.
I used frying powder, which already contains salt and black pepper. So I didn’t marinate wingsticks. Just coat them with egg and then frying powder. Fry them in oil till golden brown. Very crispy outside, but tender and soft inside.
Original recipe:
http://m.xiachufang.com/recipe/265071/?ref=aladdin_accurate
I guess many people know Beijing Roast Duck. Crispy roast duck is popular in China. Duck meat will be cut into slices, and wrapped with cucumber strips and sweet bean sauce. I can eat a lot.
It should be crispy roast duck, but I only found big ducks in supermarket. So I decided to try with a small chicken.
1. Pour hot boiled water onto whole chicken.
2. Use a bottle ( with water inside) to make chicken stand and dry it. The chicken’s skin will become tightened and bright.
Oh! Poor chicken. π¦
Later you will suffer heated roasting. Please cool as much as you can now.
It will take hours till chicken’s surface is completely dry. So I used a fan to blow directly at the chicken.
3. Prepare the mixed sauce to brush chicken.
Vinegar: 1 tsp
Cooking wine: 2 tsp
Honey: 2 tsp
Water: 2 tsp ( said in original recipe, but I forgot)
4. When the chicken is totally dry. Brush the mixed sauce onto the skin evenly and completely. Then dry it.
5. After chicken’s skin becomes dry, brush again. Dry it.
6. Stuff chicken with Apple chunks ( wet bun also used in original recipe, but I didn’t use it). And close chicken’s bottom with toothpicks.
7. Preheat oven to 200 degree C. Put chicken on the grill with breast side up. Under the grill put a baking pan covered with aluminum foil and filled with a little water.
8. Roast with 170 degree C for 40 mins. Then flip chicken over and roast for 20 mins. ( after totally roasted 60 mins, I found the chicken’s color is still a little light, so I roast it for another 20 mins, with the breast side up. And I also took all the apple chunks out.)
After it’s done, take it out and cut into small pieces, which I am not good at.
Then wrap chicken slices with cucumber and sweet bean sauce. Hmmm, so yummy.
I still think I didn’t dry it longer enough. The skin could be more crispy. But the chicken is tender inside. Very delicious.
I seldomly cook deep fried food, because it wastes too much oil, and the kitch will become greasy.
So when I prepared for this dish, I really thinker very hard to use oil as less as I can.
1. Cut chicken into small pieces. I made them one-bite size. And I chose boneless chicken leg.
2. Marinate chicken with minced garlic & Ginger, a little salt and black pepper powder and cooking wine. For about 15 minutes.
3. Coated chicken with egg and then frying powder.
4. Heat oil in a small pot. I just add oil half height of the chicken piece. Try the heat with a chopstick, if there are many small bubbles showing up around the chopstick, it means the oil’s heat is OK!
5. Start frying till the surface turns golden brown.
Just marinate with a little salt. Cos I forgot salt already exists in frying powder. So my fried chicken is a bit salty. But it’s crisp.
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