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Pepperoni Pizza

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Recently, we are really busy moving to a new house. A new house means a new kitchen to me. I am so excited that I will have new cooking equipment.

Our new oven is Bosch with 3D hot air.

The first dish I cook by it is pepperoni pizza. We were so exhausted and I thought pizza is a simple dish for me to prepare.

1. Prepare pizza dough, please refer to:

Double Cheese Pizza With Homemade Pizza Sauce

2. I made pizza sauce by myself with cherry tomatoes.

Double Cheese Pizza With Homemade Pizza Sauce

3. Preheat oven to 250 degree C.

4. Press pizza dough into baking pan. Brush pizza sauce over it.

5. Sprinkle a lot of cheese.

6. Place pepperoni pieces on the top.

7. Into the oven and bake for 7 mins.

Taste really good. I’m very happy with my new oven.

Chicken, Chinese

Yellow Braised Chicken （黄焖鸡 Huang Men Ji）

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Huang Men Ji is a famous dish in Shandong cuisine. There are so many Huang Men Ji restaurants all over China. The full name is 黄焖鸡米饭, which means yellow braised chicken served with steamed rice.

1. Prepare chicken, cut chicken into small or medium chunks. In my hometown, chicken is usually chopped into small pieces, then got stir fried or braised.

2. Heat 1-2 tablespoon oil in a pot. (Authentic Huang Men Ji is cooked with clay pot.)

3. Add in 1 tablespoon sugar. Stir fry till sugar got melted and browned.

4. Put chicken into pot. Be careful of the hot oil. Stir fry to let chicken be coated with browned sugar.

5. Add in several ginger slices and dried chili rings. 1 tablespoon shaoxing wine, 1 tablespoon light soy sauce and 1/2 tablespoon dark soy sauce. Blend evenly.

6. Pour in enough hot water covers all chicken. Also add in Shiitake mushroom slices . (You can add a lot, because shiitake will become very yummy after braised.)

7. In with 2 tsp white pepper powder, 1 tsp salt. Put on lid. Turn to low heat and simmer for 25 mins.

8. Remove the lid. Turn to high heat. Reduce the sauce a bit.

9. Add in celery. Simmer for 2 mins.

10. Add in pepper. Simmer for another 2 mins.

Serve with rice.

My husband said it’s very similar to the one he had when he’s in my hometown. And it goes perfect with steamed rice.

baking, Chicken

Crispy Skillet Chicken Breast

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1. Cut one whole chicken breast into two halves. Thinner chicken can be cooked easily. Sprinkle salt and black pepper on both sides of the chicken.

2. In a bowl, add in 1 cup flour, 4 tablespoon bread crumbs, a little salt, black pepper and mixed herbs.

3. Prepare 1 egg, and 3/4 cup milk in another bowl. Mix them well.

4. Dip chicken in flour mixture, then egg and flour at last. Shake off the excess.

Preheat oven to 220 degree C.

5. Melt 30g butter in skillet. Place chicken in side. Into the oven for 10 mins.

6. Flip over and bake for another 10 mins.

Prawn

Butter Prawns

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1. Prepare Prawns first. Remove the intestines and wash clean.

2. Put all Prawns in a big bowl. Add in 1 egg white and 2 tablespoon corn starch. Mix well.

3. Deep fry Prawns in oil till golden brown. Drain them.

4. Heat 1 tsp oil in a sauce pan. Add in 20g butter. When butter melts, pour in 2 egg yolks. Stir while pouring. Egg yolk will become shredded.

5. Add in red chili rings and curry leaves. Stir fry a bit.

6. Our all the fried prawns back to sauce pan. Mix well.

Serve hot.

Very delicious.

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Pork, Uncategorized

Braised Pork, Bamboo Shoot & Vermicelli

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Two kinds of vermicelli are very popular in China’s northern part: vermicelli made from sweet potato and potato. And I used sweet potato type in this dish.

1. Cut pork (better with some fat) and bamboo shoot into medium chunks.

2. Boil a pot of water. Add in 1 tsp salt. Soak bamboo shoots in it for a little while. Then rinse under cold water and drain. Some people don’t like the sourish taste of bamboo shoots, so soaking in hot salty water will remove that. And bamboo shoot is very good for healthy. It contains abundant food fiber.

3. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in pan. Sear the pork and bring them to a little golden brown.

4. Add in bamboo shoots. Stir fry for like 2 mins. Drizzle a little Shao xing wine.

5. Then add in 1 tablespoon light soy sauce, 1/2 tablespoon dark soy sauce, 1 tablespoon sugar, ginger slices, star anise and bay leaf. Pour in enough hot water covers all ingredients. Bring to boil. Then turn to low heat. Cover with lid and simmer for 40 mins.

6. Add in vermicelli. Let them soak in meat juice. Simmer for 8-12 mins according to the instruction. Stir occasionally in case vermicelli stick together.

7. Season with salt if needed.

Fish, tomato

Sweet & Sour Fish

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1. Cut fish into slices or small chunks. Beat one egg in a bowl and prepare 1/2 cup corn starch in another bowl.

2. Dip fish in egg first and then in starch. Let them be coated with starch evenly.

3. Deep fry fish slices till golden brown. Set aside.

4. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in the pan. Add in chopped 1/2 onion, chopped 1 tomato, red capsicum, and yellow capsicum. Stir fry for 2 mins.

5. Add in 2 tablespoon tomato sauce, 1 tablespoon chili sauce, 2 tsp sugar and 1/2 cup water. Bring the sauce to boil.

6. Add in starch water to thicken the sauce.

7. Put in fried fish slices. Stir fry to let fish be coated with sauce.

spinach, Uncategorized

Spinach & Vermicelli Salad

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1. Wash spinach. Remove the root and cut into halves.

2. Boil a pot of water. Add in 1 tsp water. Boil spinach for 1 min. Then dish them out. Set aside. Drain and cool down.

3. Boil another pot of water. Boil vermicelli according to the instruction or till cooked. Drain them.

4. Squeeze spinach to let all the water out. Put them in a big bowl along with drained vermicelli.

5. Season with sugar and salt.

6. Heat a sauce pan. Add in 2 tablespoon oil. Sauté a little chopped garlic and dried chili. When the oil is smoke hot, pour hot oil onto spinach. (Or you can place chopped garlic and chilli on the top of spinach. Pour the hot oil over them.)

7. Mix well and serve.

Pork

Pork Liver Stir-fry

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Ingredients:

1 pork liver (cut into thin slices, around 2 mm)

Ginger slices

Bell pepper

Leek

Light soy sauce

Shaoxing wine

Corn starch

Oyster sauce

1. Wash pork liver in water. Change water again and again till there is no more blood.

2. Marinate pork liver slices with 1 tablespoon shaoxing wine, 2 tsp light soy sauce and 1 tablespoon corn starch.

3. Heat oil in a pan. A little more oil than usual. When the oil gets hot, put in pork liver. Quickly separate them from each other and stir fry for 1 min. Set aside.

4. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in pan. Sauté ginger till aromatic.

5. Add in leek and pepper. Stir fry for a little while.

6. Put pork liver back in the pan. Stir fry evenly. Add in 1 tsp shaoxing wine, 1 tsp light soy sauce and 1 tsp oyster sauce. Quickly blend them evenly.

7. Stir fry for 1 min. Season with salt. And ready to serve.

Pork

Twice Cooked Pork (Hui Guo Rou)

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Twice cooked pork 回锅肉 is a famous dish in Sichuan cuisine. It’s not a difficult dish to cook.

1. Prepare a pork belly strip. Put it in a pot. Add in enough water covers pork. Ginger slices and 1 tablespoon shaoxing hua diao wine. Bring water to boil. Then turn to low heat. Cover the lid and simmer for 20 mins, or till chopsticks can easily go through the pork.

2. Take the pork out and soak in cold water. Cut pork into slices.

3. Heat a little oil in the pan. Sauté 2-3 ginger slices. Add the pork slices in. Sear the pork till a little golden brown.

4. Push pork to the one side of the pan. Add 1 tablespoon Pixian Bean paste in the pan with 2 tsp sugar. Stir fry a bit. I add in sugar to reduce the spiciness.

5. Stir fry pork with bean paste. Add in chopped leek. Stir fry for 2-3 mins to let leek be cooked. Have a taste to see if a little bit salt is needed, since bean paste is very salty.

Ready to serve.

Potato, Vegetables

Di San Xian

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Di San Xian (地三鲜) is one of my favorite dishes. And it belongs to northeastern Chinese cuisine.

Main ingredients of this dish are three vegetables: eggplant, potato and green pepper.

1. Cut eggplant, potato and pepper into medium chunks.

2. Heat oil in a deep pot. Fry potato till golden brown on the edge. Dish them out. Fry eggplant till soft and brownish. Dish out and fry pepper for 30 seconds.

3. Heat a pan. Add in 1 tsp oil. Sauté chopped garlic and ginger till aromatic.

4. Put all fried vegetables in the pan. Stir fry evenly.

5. Add in 2 tsp light soy sauce, 1/2 tsp dark soy sauce, 2 tsp sugar and 1 tsp salt. Stir fry evenly.

6. At last, pour in corn starch water. Mix evenly and serve hot.