Purple sweet potato needs to be peeled off and cut into small pieces.
Purple sweet potato, millet and water in the pot. Water should be higher than all ingredients. Turn to low heat. Cover the pot with lid. Cook till purple sweet potato turns softened. When it’s almost done, the porridge will become very condensed. Keep stirring in case it gets burnt.
The porridge tastes sweet even no sugar is added.
It’s a very healthy porridge.
This soup is very easy. Just put chicken leg in a pot, add in enough water. At first, use medium heat. After water gets boiled, turn to low heat. Cook for half an hour. Then add in shiitake and wolf berries. Cook for at least another half an hour. Add in salt and it’s done.
It actually took me one hour and a half to make this soup. Just the longer you cook it, the better it will taste.
Put Spinach in boiling water for several seconds. Then take them out and chopped into granules.
Put spinach in a large bowl. Beat in a large egg, half a small bowl of flour, some water, 1 tsp baking soda, some salt and black pepper powder. Mix them well.
Heat a little oil in the pan. Put a spoonful of batter in the pan. When the down side’s edge becomes a little golden, flip it over. And fry the other side for a while.
Actually I don’t like ladyfinger very much. Because it is sticky inside, which tastes a bit weird to me. But I like ladyfinger omelet.
Two ladyfingers removed off two ends and put into boiling water for 1-2 minutes. Put some salt in the water.
Beat 3 small eggs in a bowl.
Heat a little oil in the pan. Pour the egg in and spread one layer in the pan. When egg starts to solidify, put one ladyfinger at one end of the pan. Then roll the egg with ladyfinger in it to the other end of the pan.
Pour egg into the pan. One ladyfinger put next to the omelet already made. Then roll them together to the other end.
Repeat the procedure above till all egg used up.
It will become a big omelet and cut it into small pieces.
I promised my husband that I would make hamburger for him. And I tried the other day.
First, I baked black sesame round bun.
Ingredients:
Bread flour around 160g
Plain flour around 40g
Sugar around 30g
Salt around 3 g
Yeast around 3 g
Add in milk around 60g and 3/4 of one egg.
1. When everything mixed well, add in black sesames. And keep kneading until the dough becomes less sticky.
2. Cut in 15g butter. Just knead, knead and knead. If you are really stressed out recently, it’s a good way to release your negetive energy outwardly. You can even punch the dough. When the butter is completely absorbed by the dough, you can stop and take a rest. Kneading really takes a while.
3. Cover the bowl with a wrap or wet towel until it expands to 1.5 or twice of its size.
4. Divide the dough into several little even-sized dough. Knead them to let the inside air out and make them in round shape.
5. Put the small dough on the baking pan and put the baking pan into the oven. Place a bowl of hot water under the baking pan. If the water gets cold, replace it with another bowl of hot water.
When the small dough expands again to 1.5 or twice of their size, they can be taken out.
6. Brush the dough with the rest 1/4 egg.
7. Preheat the oven with 180 degree C. And bake them for around 18 mins.
The bun part is done.
I cut the round bun into two parts. In the middle I put carriage, tomato slice, cheese and pork chop. And make them mini-hamburgers.
You can design your own burger with this round bun, and of course you can make it bigger if you want.
This round bun can also be good if you just spread jam in it.
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. 😦
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.
Original recipe:
http://m.xiachufang.com/recipe/100527350/
I used 1 lemon, 2 oranges, 1600ml water as said in original recipe. But I reduced sugar. I used only 600g sugar, and it turned out very sweet to me.
1. Use a slicer to make lemon & orange peel into short strips.
2. Cut lemon and orange into small pieces. ( I took off all the white parts)
3. Put all the peel and pulp in a large bowl, add in 1000ml boiled water for overnight.
4. Put all the peel, pulp and water in a pot large enough for another 600ml water.
5. Turn on the stove and heat with low heat till the water in the pot reduces to half and peel turns softened.
6. Add in sugar and turn to high height. Keep stirring.
7. Water in the pot will become less and condensed. Take out a few drops in a plate to test their mobility. If the drops don’t flow well, then it’s done. You need to test many times, just please be patient.
8. Put them in sterilized jars.
The Chinese label was written by me. 🙂
柠檬 “Ning meng” means lemon.
橙子 “Cheng zi” means orange.
酱 “jiang” means jam or sauce, depending on the text.
日期 “ri qi” means date.
I almost spent the whole morning making this jam. And tested many many times. I’m glad the jam tastes so good.
It can be used as bread spread or to make fruit tea.
I like zucchini very much. I also like simply frying them with a pan.
Just spread some oil in the pan. Put zucchini slices in the pan. When the downside turn a little golden brown, flip them over and fry the other side. Spread some salt and black pepper. When both side are done, take them out in the plate.
You can stir fry zucchini with sausage slices, which also tastes good.
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.
It’s a traditional soup in China. When I was little, my mom always cooked me this soup, especially in cold weather or when I was sick.
It also has an interesting name. Ge Da in Chinese means a lump, a knot, even means pimple on face. But here it means the flour in the soup. Because the flour will become many small lumps.
There are many kinds of ge da soup, and there are also ge da soup restaurants in China. Tomato and egg ge da soup is probably the most common one.
1. Prepare a half bowl of flour.
2. Add a little water in the flour.
3. Stir flour with a chopstick very quickly till flour lumps are shaped.
4. Heat a little oil in the pan. Put in tomato pieces. ( I used 2 large tomatoes, peeled off and chopped into small pieces).
5. Stir fry tomato a little, then add in 2 bowls of water. Cover the pan with lid.
6. When water boiled and tomato soup becomes a little condensed, add in all the flour lumps ( flour ge da). Stir with chopsticks, in case they stick together.
7. When the flour lumps are cooked. Beat an egg in a bowl, stir evenly. Then pour egg into the pan, while pouring, you should also keep stirring with chopsticks.
8. Add in spring onion pieces and salt.
If you like, you can also add a little sesame oil to your soup.
The flour ge da ( lump) tastes very chewy. When I was little, I liked finding ge da in the soup. It’s very interesting to me.
Chinese people do love tomato and egg. We make them into soup and dish. We also make them go well with rice and noodles.
If you notice the Olympic Games, you will find even Chinese athletes wear red and yellow. Chinese netizens call that tomato and egg color. 🙂
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