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baking, bread, Uncategorized

Walnut Bread

April 16, 2017 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

Original recipe:

http://www.xiachufang.com/recipe/100571333/

I followed this recipe but changed a little.

Sourdough:

Bread flour 58g

Whole grain flour 58g

Water 71g

Yeast 1/2tsp (original recipe is 1/16tsp)

Mix all the sourdough ingredients. Let it rest for at least 2 hours. Original recipe said let it rest for overnight. That’s why I increased yeast to 1/2 tsp.
Walnut paste:

Walnut 50g

Water 50g

Honey 40g

Melted butter 20g

Salt 1 pinch

Blend all these ingredients in blender till paste.
Bread ingredients:

Bread flour 306g

Whole grain flour 34g

Water 145g

Salt 8.5g

Yeast 2g

Mix all the bread ingredients together into a dough. Let it rest for 30 mins.

Then fold in sourdough and walnut paste. Mix well into a big dough. Let it rise into 2 times big.

Preheat oven to the highest.

Knead it and press the air out. Let it rise again for another 40 mins. Cut the surface with pattern you like.

Turn oven to 230 degree C. Put in 1/4 cup water and let the water steam arise. Put bread dough into oven. Bake for 15 mins. Then take the water out and bake for another 25-30 mins. If the color too dark, cover with foil.

My husband and I love this bread very much.

Chicken, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Baked Chciken Thighs With Cauliflower

April 12, 2017 chinesetuition88 2 Comments

Preheat oven to 200 degree C.

1. Marinate chicken thighs with a little salt and black pepper.

2. Chop cauliflower into small bits. Put them in a bowl. Add in 2 tsp olive oil, a little salt and chopped garlic. Mix well.

3. In baking pan, spread cauliflower. Then place chicken thighs over. Brush a little olive oil on the chicken skin.

Bake for 35-40 mins. Or till chicken skin becomes golden brown.

Serve hot with rice.

bread, Cake, Crab, Quick recipe, Uncategorized

Fried Breaded Crab Cake

April 11, 2017 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

My husband always keeps talking about soft shell crab. So we bought two packs the other day. And I planned to cook them today. Yet, when they were thawed, I found they were not whole crabs as we expected. Shell was removed and crab meat was tore apart. So I decided to change my recipe and cook fried breaded crab cake instead.

1. Sprinkle some salt and black pepper over crab meat. Mix them evenly.

2. In a bowl, pour in 1/4 cup water, 1/2 cup milk and beat in one egg. Mix them well.

3. In another bowl, add in 1 cup bread crumbs and 1 1/2 tsp thyme. Mix them well too.

4. Heat skillet on stove. Pour in enough oil.

5. Make crab meat into small or medium balls. Dust them with flour. Then dip in milk egg mixture. Dust with flour again. Dip in milk egg mixture again. Roll in bread crumbs at last.

6. Fry in oil till golden brown.

Serve hot with mayonnaise or salad cream.

Crispy outside, and very tender inside. Yummy!

bread, Chinese, Pork, Uncategorized

Rou Jia Mo – Chinese Hamburger

April 10, 2017 chinesetuition88 4 Comments

Rou Jia Mo is one of typical Shananxi food in Chinese cuisine. It’s also one of my most missing Chinese food. There are two parts of this dish: Mo (bun outside) and Rou (meat inside).

For the Mo part:

Flour 250g

Yeast 3.5 g

Baking powder 1.5 g

Warm water 135g

Salt 1.5g

Mix all the ingredients above into a dough. Place it in a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap or wet towel and let it rest for 1 hour.

For the Rou part:

Pour enough water in a pot. Also put pork belly in. When water boils, turn off stove and take pork out. Rinse and drain.

Place pork in a deep pot again. Pour in enough hot water. Add in 2 tsp light soy sauce, 1.5 tsp dark soy sauce, 2 tsp cooking wine, several sugar cubes, Chinese scallion, ginger slices, star anise, bayleaf and 1 tsp salt.

First turn to high heat. When it boils, turn to low heat. And braise for 2 hours. So that pork will be really really soft and can melt in your mouth.
While pork is on stove, prepare Mo again.

Devide the dough into several small ones. Brush them with a little oil on the surface. Let them rest for 15 mins. Roll it with rolling pin into a long one. Then roll from one side to the other. Make it into a small dough ball again. Let them rest for another 10 mins. Then press them gently to become thinner.

Heat a pan on a stove with medium heat.

Place Mo into the pan.

Fry each side for 2-3 mins or till lightly golden brown.

Preheat oven to 150 degree C. And bake for 10 mins.

Then the Mo is ready.

Back to Rou again.

When the pork is cooked.

Chop them into a bit minced. Add in a little chopped spring onion or green chili. Sprinkle pork’s sauce.

The Rou part is also ready.

Cut Mo in the middle, not completely cut them open.

Stuff pork inside.

And the Rou Jia Mo is ready.

I must confess that mine Rou Jia Mo is not as good as the ones I had in China. But my husband still loves them.
Original recipe:

http://www.xiachufang.com/recipe/132373/

baking, blueberry, bread, Uncategorized

Blueberry Shortbread

April 7, 2017 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

Original recipe:

http://www.amuse-your-bouche.com/blueberry-shortbread-bars/

I followed this recipe strictly.

Ingredients:

Flour 125g

Sugar 50g

Butter 100g

Fresh blueberries 150g

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree C.

2. Mix flour and sugar in a bowl. Cut in butter.

3. Rub them with fingers till become coarse crumbs.

4. Press 2/3 crumbs into baking pan. Sprinkle blueberries over crumbs.

5. Spread the rest crumbs on the top also with a little extra white sugar.

6. Bake for 30 mins.

Chinese, Dumplings, Quick recipe, Uncategorized

Pan-fried Crispy Bottom Dumplings

April 6, 2017 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

I love dumplings, whether they are boiled or fried.

This pan fried dumplings have very crunchy bottom with beautiful golden looks.

1. Brush oil in the pan.

2. Place dumplings ( I used frozen dumplings given by my mother in-law) in the pan.

3. Turn to medium heat. When the bottom turns lightly golden. Turn to low heat.

4. In a small bowl, mix starch and water, ratio should be 1:10.

5. Pour starch water slowly into pan. Stop when the water reaches about 1/3 height of dumpling.

6. Cover pan with lid.

7. When the water almost dry after several mins, remove lid. Turn to medium heat. Let the water dry completely. The turn off stove.

8. Take a big plate that can cover pan. Put the plate on the pan like a lid. Then switch them upside down to let dumplings drop into plate.

Delicious!

Chicken, Chinese, Soup, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Chicken Leg Soup With Chinese Cabbage & Dried Mini Octopus

April 2, 2017 chinesetuition88 2 Comments

Every weekend, my husband and I will go to supermarket and pick meat & vegi for the next week’s meals. Last time, he went to me with a small bag of dried mini octopus and told me it would make soup more delicious. I really doubted that because my husband knows very little about cooking. But he persuaded me in the end. I tried it with a big fat chicken leg.

1. Clean chicken leg. In a deep pot, pour in enough water. Also put chicken leg in.

2. Turn to high heat. When water boils, remove the foam on the surface.

3. Turn to low heat. Add in a little ginger slice. Cut one dried mini octopus into the pot with scissors.

4. Cover the pot with lid. Slow cook for 30-60 mins. 30 mins will guarantee Chicken be cooked. Yet, a little longer cooking time will enable soup to be very tasty.

5. Chop Chinese cabbage into medium pieces. Put into the pot. Also sprinkle some salt. Cook for another 5 mins.

Serve hot.

I have to say dried octopus really did magic to the soup. We all loved it.

Chinese, egg, Pork, Uncategorized

Dark Braised Pork With Quail Eggs

March 30, 2017 chinesetuition88 Leave a comment

It contains both pork and quail eggs. It’s absolutely one of my husband’s favorite dishes.

1. Boil some water in a pot. Put a strip of pork belly in water. Turn off the stove till water boils again.

2. Take pork out. Rinse and drain. Then cut it into medium chunks.

3. Heat a little oil in the pan. Put pork in. Fry pork belly till both sides turn golden brown.

4. Add in 1 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp dark soy sauce, 2 tsp sugar. Stir fry evenly.

5. Pour in enough hot water covers pork. Also add in 1 or 2 star anise, and ginger slices. Cover the pan with lid.

6. In another pot, boil some water. Then put quail eggs in. Boil for 5 mins. Soak them in cold water and remove the shell.

7. When the sauce in pan reduces to 1/3. Put quail eggs into the pan. Stir with pork. Cover the lid and simmer till sauce becomes condensed.

8. Turn up the heat. Keep stirring to let pork and quail eggs be coated with dark sauce.

Serve hot.

Chinese, Pork, Quick recipe, Uncategorized

Fried Pork Slices in Sweet & Sour Sauce (Guo Bao Rou)

March 29, 2017 chinesetuition88 2 Comments

Guo Bao Rou is a classic dish in Notheastern Chinese cuisine. I still remember when going out with my friends to have northeastern cuisine, we would definitely order this Guo Bao Rou.

1. Cut pork into medium slices.

2. Sprinkle salt and a little black pepper. Mix them well.

3. In a small bowl, add in 100g starch (better be potato starch). Then add in water higher than starch. Stir well. Then let it rest for 10-20 mins. Starch will stay in the bottom layer and water in the upper.

Pour the water out.

4. Prepare carrot shreds, scallion shreds, ginger, and minced garlic.

5. Heat some oil in a skillet. Dip pork slices in wet starch and then dry starch. Gently put them in the oil. Deep fry till the shell becomes hard and lightly golden brown.