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Sweet & Sour Eggplant

June 22, 2018 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

Eggplant is one of my favorite vegetables. Yet, it’s hard to cook eggplant well without frying. This dish also needs frying which means a lot of oil is used.I have to admit that it’s not very healthy, but it’s very delicious.

1. Cut eggplant into cubes. Place them in a big bowl. Add in 2-3 tablespoon flour. Mix eggplant with flour to let them be coated with a little flour.

2. Deep fry eggplant till golden brown. Set aside on kitchen towel tissue to absorb oil.

3. Heat a pan. Add in 1 tsp oil. Sauté 2-3 cloves chopped garlic and 1 chopped red chili till aromatic.

4. Add in 1/2 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1/2 2 tablespoon sugar and 1 tablespoon light soy sauce. Stir well.

5. Put in all the fried eggplant. Stir fry to mix eggplant with sauce till sauce thickened.

Serve hot.

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Chicken, mushroom

Braised Chicken With Shiitake Mushroom

June 7, 2018 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

香菇炖鸡

1. Cut chicken into medium chunks. I used 3 whole chicken wings and cut them at the joint. So 1 wing can be cut into 4 pieces. You can also choose boneless chicken leg, better with skin on.

2. Hot pan. Cold oil. Fry chicken till golden brown.

3. Add in 2 or 3 ginger slices. Sauté a bit. Shiitake mushrooms in. Stir fry till aromatic.

4. 1 tablespoon cooking wine, 1 tablespoon light soy sauce, 2 tsp dark soy sauce, 1 tablespoon oyster sauce and 1 tablespoon sugar. Mix all ingredients well.

5. Pour in hot water covers evenly ingredient. Bring to boil. Turn to low heat and simmer for 20 mins.

6. Remove lid. Turn to high heat. Reduce the sauce and garnish with chopped spring onion or leek.

Quick recipe, Uncategorized

Scallop & Asparagus Stir-fry

June 4, 2018 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

1. Cut scallops into two thinner pieces. Peel the asparagus and cut them. Also prepare several carrot slices to garnish the dish.

2. Boil a pot of water, add in 1 tsp salt. Blanch asparagus and carrot for 1 min. Rinse under water and drain them.

3. Heat a pan. In with 1 tablespoon oil. Sauté a little garlic & ginger slices. Add in scallops. Fry each side for 1 min.

4. Add in asparagus and carrot. Quickly blend them.

5. Add in 1 tsp cooking wine, 1 tsp light soy sauce and a little salt to season. Stir fry evenly.

6. At last, in with a little starch water.

mushroom, Pasta

Creamy Mushroom Linguine

May 30, 2018 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

1. Heat a pan on stove. Add in 1 tablespoon olive oil.

2. When oil is hot, add in 2 cloves of chopped garlic. Stir fry till aromatic.

3. Add in 1 chopped small shallot. Stir fry till transparent.

4. Put in all the mushroom slices. Stir fry a bit. Turn to low heat, cover the lid. Juice will come out. Simmer for a little while.

5. Pour in 1/2 cup milk. Bring to boil. Zest in cheese. Stir to melt.

6. Season with salt, black pepper and mixed herbs.

7. Dissolve 1 tablespoon flour in a little water. Pour the flour water into pan. Stir to condense sauce.

8. Off the stove. Put in cooked linguine. Blend well.

Soup

White Radish Ge Da Soup

May 27, 2018 chinesetuition88 1 Comment

You can choose green radish as well.

1. Grate white radish into shreds.

2. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in the pot. Sauté dried shrimp, and chopped ginger. Then add in white radish shreds. Stir fry for a little while.

3. Pour in 2 cups hot water. Bring to boil.

4. Prepare 1/2 cups flour. Add in water while stir to make small lumps.

5. Add flour lumps into the soup. Stir to avoid sticking to the pot. Simmer for 2-3 mins.

6. Pour in 1 or 2 beaten eggs. Stir a bit.

7. Season with salt and sprinkle chopped spring onion.

Serve with 2 drops of sesame oil.

baking, mushroom

Stuffed Mushroom

May 25, 2018 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

My husband has a new hobby – gardening. He agreed to plant basil as I always use basil for cooking.

Today I asked him to cut off a little basil for me to cook pizza. He gave me a Bunch! So I used some of them to cook this stuffed mushroom.

Preheat oven to 170 degree C.

1. Prepare 200 g mushroom. Wash clean. Remove the stem. Don’t throw away stem. They can be used to make filling.

2. Chop stem into very tiny bites. Also chop 2 cloves of garlic.

3. Heat 1 tsp olive oil in the pan. Sauté garlic a bit. Add in stems. Sauté till aromatic.

4. Season with salt, black pepper and a little mixed herbs. Juice will come out from stem. Turn to low heat. Simmer a bit till it dries up.

5. Turn off the heat. Add in chopped fresh basil. Stir well. And the filling is done.

6. Put filling into mushroom with help of spoon. Press by finger.

7. Top with cheese.

8. Into the oven for 20 mins.

duck

Braised Duck Leg

May 24, 2018 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

1. Wash two duck legs in water. Then wipe them with kitchen towel.

2. Heat a pot on stove. Sear the duck leg till brownish, because duck contains much fat.

3. Add in 2 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon light soy sauce and 2 tsp dark soy sauce. Stir fry to let duck leg be coated with dark sauce.

5. Pour in enough hot water covers duck. Add in ginger slices, and star anise. Bring to boil. Then turn to low heat. Cover with lid and simmer for 1 hour.

6. Remove the lid. Turn to high heat to reduce the sauce.

Serve hot with white sesame and chopped spring onion.

Prawn

Bread Crumbs Prawn 避风塘炒虾

May 23, 2018 chinesetuition88 1 Comment

This is a very popular dish in China, especially in southern part. And I think it’s originated from Hongkong.

1. Prepare prawn. Remove the intestines with the help of toothpick.

2. Put Prawns in a bowl. Add in 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp white pepper powder and 1 tablespoon cooking wine. Marinate for 15 mins.

3. While the Prawns are marinated, you can prepare other ingredients: 3 cloves of chopped garlic, a little chopped ginger, 2 chopped red chili, 2 chopped spring onion and 1/2 cup bread crumbs.

4. Wipe the Prawns with kitchen towel. Mix them with 2-3 tablespoon corn starch. And let them be coated with starch.

5. Deep fry them till golden brown. Set aside.

6. Heat 2 tsp oil in the pan. Sauté ginger, garlic red chili and spring onion till aromatic.

7. Add in 1 tsp sesame oil, 1 tsp soy sauce, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp black pepper, 2 tsp sugar and 1 tablespoon cooking wine. Stir to let the sauce reduce.

8. Add in bread crumbs. Stir fry to bring bread crumbs brownish.

9. Add all the fried prawns into the pan. Stir fry to mix them evenly.

Ready to serve.

My husband loves it very very much.