1. Chop pork into thin slices. Marinate the pork with a little cooking wine, light soy sauce, salt, sugar, ginger and corn starch for 10-15 mins.
2. Prepare the sauce: 1 tsp ginger granulate, 3 tsp water, 1 tsp light soy sauce, salt, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp cooking wine.
3. Heat a little oil in the pan. Stir fry pork slices till both sides turn golden brown.
4. Add in sauce. Cover the pan with lid. Braise for around 3 mins till sauce becomes very condensed.
1. Heat butter in a pan. Fry cod fillet about 2-3 mins for each side. Then dish out.
2. Fry asparagus till done. Sprinkle a little salt. Then dish out.
3. Heat 1 tsp butter in the pan. Add 1/2 tsp flour and 3 tsp milk. Cook with low heat till sauce becomes condensed. Add in some salt and black pepper. Stir evenly.
4. Pour sauce onto the cod in the plate.
Ingredient:
Boneless chicken leg
Light soy sauce 1 tsp
Dark soy sauce 1.5 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Salt 1/4 tsp
Hot water 4 tsp
1. Heat the pan. Put in the chicken with skin side down.
2. Flip it over when the skin side turns golden brown. And fry the other side till golden brown too.
3. Take the chicken out and cut into smaller pieces. Pour the chicken oil in the pan out.
4. Heat the pan and put chicken pieces back in the pan again. Stir fry for a minute or two.
5. Add in light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and sugar. Stir fry till each chicken pieces is coated with sauce.
6. Add in around 4 tsp hot water. Turn to medium or low heat. Cover the lid. Braise for a while till the water reduces to little.
7. Turn to high height. Keep stir frying at the same time to make sauce condensed. Then turn off the stove and dish out.
I served it with cucumber slices. My husband loves it very much.
Ingredients:
Boneless chicken leg
Dark soy sauce 2 tsp
Cooking wine 1 tsp
Water 2 tsp
Sugar 2 tsp
Honey 2 tsp
White sesame
1. Heat a pan on the stove. When it’s hot, put chicken into the pan with the skin side down.
2. When the downside turns golden brown, flip the chicken over. Fry the other side till golden brown too.
3. Take the chicken out, and cut into smaller pieces.
4. Put the chicken pieces into pan. Add in dark soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar, water and honey. Stir evenly to make sure chicken is coated with sauce.
5. Turn the height higher. Keep stir frying till sauce reduces to almost dry. Sprinkle white sesame.
If you want to serve with rice, you can save more sauce for the rice.
Very yummy.
Ingredients:
Small onion 1 (chopped into small bits)
Bacon bits
Tomato 2 (peeled and chopped into small bits)
Frozen green peas ( in boiling water for 1 min)
Farfalle pasta (cooked)
Salt
Black pepper
Cheese
Tomato sauce
1. Heat a little oil in the pan. Add in bacon bits. Stir fry till bacon gets a bit burnt.
2. Add in onion bits. Stir fry a bit.
3. Put in all the tomato pieces. Sprinkle some salt. Add in 2 tsp tomato sauce. Braise for a while till tomatoes become tomato sauce.
4. Add in green peas. Simmer for 1 min. Turn off the stove.
5. Add in cooked farfalle pasta. Sprinkle some black pepper. And stir evenly.
Spread cheese on farfalle. Put in the microwave for around 2 mins till cheese melts.
Very yummy.
Marinate salmon with a little salt and black pepper.
Heat a little oil in the pan. Fry salmon till each side turns golden brown, which takes 2-3 mins. Then dish them out.
Add 1 tsp tomato sauce, 1 tsp black pepper sauce and 1 tsp sugar in the pan with 2 tsp water. Stir till condensed and pour over salmon.
Apart from searching for recipes, one of my hobbies is watching movies about food.
I watched the Japanese Movie Little Forest the other day. It tells a story of a little girl living in the countryside. She plants vegetables and fruits and makes dishes with them. One scen is about her making tomato sauce with the tomatoes she plants. So I imitated her way of doing that.
1. First, wash some cherry tomatoes. Actually, you can use small tomatoes or big ones, depending on how big your jar is. And cut a cross at the bottom of each one.
2. Then put them in hot water for several seconds. If your tomatoes are bigger, let them stay longer in hot water.
3. Put them into icy water. And the tomato skin can be easily removed.
4. Put peeled tomatoes back into hot water. Boil them with a little salt. Don’t put too much.
5. Then put the tomatoes along with some salty hot water into sterilized jar. Please don’t make the jar too full.
6. Put the jar into hot water. And boil it for several minutes. Make sure the lid is not cover too tight.
7. After boiling, cool the jar for a while and tighten the lid.
The movies says, put the jar in the fridge. When you feel hot in summer, you can take a bite, and it makes you feel very cool.
I took them out and heat in a pan with some sugar.
Then poured them on cooked spaghetti. It tasted really great.
Ingredients:
Beef ( cut into medium pieces)
Potatoes (chopped into medium pieces)
Light soy sauce
Dark soy sauce
Cooking wine
Salt sugar
Ginger
Star anise
1. Beef pieces in boiling water till water gets boiled again. Take beef out, rinse and drain.
2. Heat some oil in the pan. Put in 2 or 3 ginger slices. Then put in beef, add a little cooking wine. Stir fry for a while.
3. Put in potato pieces. Stir fry till the edge gets a little golden brown.
4. Add in hot water covers all ingredients. Also add 1 or 2 star anise, 1 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp dark soy sauce, 1 tsp sugar. Braised with medium heat.
5. When water reduces to less than 1/3 and potatoes become softened. Turn to high height. Keep stir frying till sauce becomes dry.
Potatoes are very soft and tasty.
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.
Compared to fried fish in western countries, Chinese people always choose to cook fish in different ways, like fish soup, braised fish in brown sauce, or steamed fish.
I bought this sea bass from supermarket. Yet, I found it too big and we didn’t have a pan big enough to cook it. So I decided to divided it into two parts. Fish head for the soup. Fish body and tail for the braised one.
Fish head soup is very popular in China, since many people think this dish is very good for health. Nutritious elements in fish will be contained in the soup.
It is not difficult to make fish soup.
1. Heat the oil in the pan, and fry two sides of the fish head. When the color turns a little brown, pour in the hot water.
2. Add two or three ginger slices, salt and green onion.
3. Cook the soup with low heat. The longer you cook it, the whiter will the soup color become.
4. When the soup color turns milky white, add some tofu ( better be silken tofu) slices into it.
5. Cook for another 20 minutes or so.
I really think silken tofu is a perfect match to fish soup.
Braised fish in brown sauce
This dish can be done while fish soup on the stove.
1. Similar to the soup above. Heat the oil in the pan, and fry two sides of the fish body. When the color turns a little brown, add in a little light soy sauce, dark soy sauce （light soy sauce contains salt, dark soy sauce is for dark color) and sugar.
2. Make the fish coated with sugar soy sauce. And pour in hot water.
3. Put in some ginger slices. Cover the pan with lid.
4. When the sauce in the pan become less than 1/4. Take the fish out.
5. Keep hearing the sauce in the pan until it becomes very condensed. And pour it onto the fish.
Dip the fish with sauce before put it into mouth. It really tastes great.
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