Heat a pan with 1 tablespoon oil inside. Saute chopped 2 cloves of garlic and 1 small chopped onion till aromatic.
Add in Minced beef. stir fry till beef is no more pinkish. Set beef aside.
Because I didn’t have any tomato puree, so I used fresh tomato instead. I used medium tomatoes and 1 cup cherry tomatoes. Cut a cross at the bottom, soak them in hot water for a little while. Then peel them and dice them.
Use the same pan. Add in a little extra oil. Put tomato dices in. Sprinkle in salt, pepper, mixed herbs, 2 tablespoon tomato sauce, 1 tablespoon sugar. Simmer a bit to let the tomatoes melt a little. Dissolve 1 tablespoon flour in 3-4 tablespoon water. Add into tomato. So the sauce will be creamy.
Add beef into tomato. Stir to let them mix well. Season with a little more salt and pepper if you need to.
Pour the sauce over cooked pasta. And ready to serve.
My husband likes 100 seconds yellow croaker fish soup of Putien restaurant very much. The soup’s name 百秒黄花鱼 literally means cook yellow croaker fish for only 100 seconds. The soup is very nice and tasty.
We happened to see fresh yellow croaker sold in supermarket and we bough 2 of them. It’s very rare to see fresh yellow croacker here.
I tried to cook this soup, but I didn’t dare to cook fish for just 100 seconds since my fish looks much bigger. I worried 100 seconds is not long enough to cook fish thoroughly. So I decided to cook it for 3 mins.
Cut fish open at the belly and make it look like a stingray. sprinkle a little salt all over the fish. Place fish in a big bowl, drizzle in cooking wine and several ginger slices. Marinate for about 20 mins.
Prepare a big and deep pot or a wok. Add in 1 cup water, white part of 1 stalk spring onion, 2 ginger slices, 1/2 tsp salt and 1 pinch sugar. Bring to boil for 2 or 3 mins.
Gently put the fish in. Cover the lid for 3 mins. To make sure fish is fully cooker, I let the lid on for another 30 seconds after 3 mins.
This dish is a combination of meat, egg, and vegetable. It’s actually an updated version of braised pork (红烧肉 Hong Shao Rou).
Boil quail eggs in hot water for 5 mins. Soak them in ice cold water immediately. Then remove the egg shell.
Heat a pan. Sear Pork chunks. Pork belly is the best choice. Fry pork till fat comes out and turns a bit brownish.
Add bamboo shoot slices in and stir fry a bit with pork.
Drizzle in 1 tsp cooking wine, 1 tsp light soy sauce, 1/2 tsp dark soy sauce, 1 tsp sugar, ginger slices and bayleaf. Pour in enough hot water to cover all the ingredients.
Also add in quail eggs. Lid on and simmer with low medium heat for 20-30 mins.
This kind of pickled cucumber is really a perfect choice to go with porridge. And it’s very easy to make too.
Because I didn’t want to make too many, I just used 2 medium cucmbers.
Cut cucumbers into strips or any shape you like. But better not to be very thin.
Put them in a bowl. Sprinkle 1/2 Tablespoon salt. Toss a bit. Leave them there for 30 mins.
Drain the water. and dry them.
In a bowl, add in 2 tablespoon light soy sauce, 2 tbsp vinegar, 2 tbsp sugar, 1 tbsp honey, 3-5 crushed garlic cloves, and 2 spicy red chili. You can add more or less chili according to your preference.
Put cucumber into a sterilized container. Then pour the sauce over them. Lid on. Put into the fridge. And you will have a crunchy sweet & spicy appetizer in several hours.
The other day, I saw frozen half scallop with shell sold in supermarket, so I bought 1 pack. One good thing about seafood is that you don’t need to cook them in sophisticated way, simple steaming will bring their flavor to utmost. I cooked prawn, abalone in this way before. Can’t wait to try with scallops.
I used 4 scallops and around 50 vermicelli.
Thaw scallops. Gently remove the meat off the shell. Wash both meat and shell.
Soak vermicelli in warm water for a while till they get completely soft.
Chop 5 cloves garlic. Better chop them fine.
Heat a pan. Add in 2 tsp oil. Saute garlic with low heat till aromatic. Don’t burn them. Once the flavor gets out, turn off the heat.
In a bowl, add in the fried garlic, 1 tbsp light soy sauce, 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce, 1/2 tsp salt and 2 tsp sugar. Mix well.
Put some vermicelli and curl them on the shell. Then put the scallop meat over the vermicelli. Use a spoon to spread sauce over the vermicelli and scallop meat.
Spread the rest vermicelli in a plate and drizzle the rest sauce over them. And last put scallop on the top.
Steam for 10 mins.
Super easy. Vermicelli is juicy and full of flavor.
I’ve been having this soup since I was very little. There is a little difference between the soup in the southern and northern China. Usually, southerners like soup and they like the soup that cooked for hours. I know many northerners like my family don’t consume too much time cooking soup. So fast soup like this tomato & egg tofu is popular in north.
Ingredients:
tomatoes 2
egg 1
1 pack tofu (optional)
salt
water
chopped spring onion
sesame oil
Cut a cross at the bottom of tomatoes. Soak them in hot water for a little while. Then it can be peeled easily. Chop tomatoes into small cubes.
Cut tofu into small pieces. Tofu is not a must-have ingredient in this soup. You can skip this step if you don’t have.
Beat 1 egg into a bowl.
Heat a pan. Drizzle in a little oil. Add in tomato pieces. Turn to low heat. Stir fry tomatoes till it turns very softened and mashed.
Pour in 1/2 1 cup water. Also add in tofu if you have. Simmer for 5-8 mins.
Dissolve 2 tsp starch in 1 tbsp water, and add into the soup. Stir well.
Stir soup with a spoon and pour in beaten egg at the same time. cook for another 1 min to get egg done.
Season with salt.
Garnish with spring onion and drizzle in sesame oil before serving.
Recently, I was very stressful. When I feel stressful, I usually use food to reduce my pressure. And also I will feel like having meat, no matter chicken, pork or beef. It will be helpful as long as I eat meat.
This time, I want to cook a whole chicken for lunch. But I’ve done roasted chicken for numerous times. I need to cook chicken in a new way. Then the soy sauce chicken came to my mind.
Prepare 1 whole chicken. Mine is about 800g. Put it in a big bowl. Drizzle in a little oil and light soy sauce. Rub the chicken with sauce both inside and outside. Then let it marinate for 20 mins.
Prepare 3 stalks of spring onion and several ginger slices.
Brush rice cooker’s bottom with oil. Then spread spring onion and ginger at the bottom.
Lie the chicken over spring onion and ginger.
Pour in 1/2 cup light soy sauce, 1 tbsp dark soy sauce and 3/4 cup water. Also add in 2-3 tbsp sugar.
Lid on and press the button. When cooking is done, Don’t open the lid immediately. Let it stay for another 10 mins.
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