Chinese food: recipes at home

Chinese cuisine has long ceased to be exotic, and is popular with gourmets around the world. It is not necessary to visit a restaurant to eat Chinese food, recipes with photos proposed in this article will help you easily cook it at home. Dishes prepared according to traditional recipes can be served both for family gatherings and for guests on holidays.

Chinese food: noodle recipe

The inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom love noodles made from rice flour or a flour mixture of soy and green beans. Cooking such noodles is a long and laborious process.

It will take only 2 ingredients: half a glass of water and 250 grams of any flour - rice or soy. You need to knead a cool dough, which then cool well. Next, the dough rolls out very thinly, it needs to be pulled, tossed, folded in half when it reaches its maximum length. Such manipulations need to be continued until the dough, folded over and over in half, does not produce many thin, long threads - this is noodles.

Here is such a difficult to cook Chinese food! The recipe is simple, but it takes a lot of time and effort. Today it’s easier to buy noodles in a store than to bother like that, but it’s so inexpensive.

Next, we propose moving on to recipes of Chinese food, which at home can be prepared without much effort. We suggest first of all to consider a delicious side dish.

Chinese rice with egg and onion

There are a lot of recipes from rice in Chinese food! If you are a lover of rice, then try to cook it in a new way. The Chinese know a lot about cooking this cereal, because it is the basis of Chinese cuisine. We take the simplest ingredients that are in stock for every housewife. Such a side dish will be perfectly combined with both meat and fish.

To make rice you will need:

• half a glass of rice;
• 250 ml of water;
• onion head;
• a small bunch (about 50 gr.) green onions;
• one egg;
• a tablespoon of sunflower oil and soy sauce;
• a third of a teaspoon of salt.

From this small grocery set you will get 2 servings of delicious traditional Chinese food. Step by step recipe see below.

How to cook rice in Chinese

1. Pre-boil water in the above quantity.
2. Put rice in boiling water, add salt, cover with a lid.
3. From the moment of boiling, you need to cook rice for 15 minutes. During this time, do not interfere with the croup and open the lid.
4. If after 15 minutes the water does not boil completely, then you need to evaporate it: open the lid and turn on the gas at maximum power, stir the cereal, otherwise it will burn.
5. Transfer rice to a wide dish, it needs to cool slightly.
6. The onion must be peeled, chopped into small cubes, sautéed in sunflower oil for three minutes.
7. Put the rice in the onion in a pan, fry everything together for a couple of minutes.
8. Break the egg into a bowl, beat a little, then pour to the rice with onions, mix, fry everything together until the egg is ready.
9. Next you need to turn off the fire, put the rice in a deep dish. Then pour in the soy sauce, put the chopped green onions, mix.

Everything, the dish can be laid out on plates. Chinese food, the recipes we offer, is universal. It can be served as a separate dish, or add meat ingredients. The same applies to all further described meat dishes. They can be served with any side dish, or without it.

Sweet and sour meat

We suggest considering the preparation of delicious meat according to this recipe. Chinese food is notable for the fact that the taste is difficult to unravel, it is at the same time sour, and sweet, and salty, and spicy - real gourmets will appreciate it!

To cook meat in Chinese you will need:

• 400 grams of any meat, but it is better to take beef or chicken without bones;
• two chicken eggs;
• half a glass of flour;
• half a glass of sunflower oil;
• three tablespoons of soy sauce;
• some salt;
• a teaspoon of sugar and as much dried paprika or Korean carrot seasoning.

The dish will appeal to everyone who does not like onions in any way!

How to cook sweet and sour meat

Such a dish must begin to cook "yesterday." That is, to put it on the table tomorrow, we begin to cook today, since the meat must be pickled for a day, so that in the end it turns out to be soft and soft.

1. The meat must be cut into thin, long pieces, washed, then put on a paper towel so that the moisture is gone.
2. Mix meat with seasonings, sugar and salt, soy sauce, a spoonful of sunflower oil. Cover the dish with a lid or wrap it with cling film, refrigerate and marinate for a day.

The next day, you can start cooking the dish itself.

1. Make a batter of two eggs and half a glass of flour. If it turns out a little thick, then you can dilute it with milk, water or mayonnaise.
2. Heat sunflower oil in a pan or deep fryer, the amount of which should be such that the pieces of meat are completely immersed in it.
3. Mix meat with batter, or dip each separately, sauté until ginger.

Such meat is traditional Chinese food. The recipe at home can be modified, for example, remove sugar from the ingredients, because not everyone loves a sweet aftertaste in meat dishes. The result will be aromatic meat, with a slight acidity, tender and very tasty. The main thing is to pickle for at least 24 hours in soy sauce.

Sweet and Sour Pork

Is it possible to cook real Chinese restaurant food at home? The recipe offered here is peeped by the chefs of Chinese restaurants, this is a traditional dish that is loved by the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom.

To cook meat you will need:

• 0.6 kg pork tenderloin without fat;
• a third of a glass of soy sauce;
• large carrots;
• 4 tablespoons of starch;
• a teaspoon of sesame;
• two teaspoons of chopped parsley (you can take both fresh and dried);
• a glass of vegetable oil.

Ingredients for sweet and sour sauce:

• half a glass of water;
• two tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• three tablespoons of 9% vinegar;
• 4 tablespoons of sugar, two - tomato paste (not ketchup, namely thick paste);
• half a teaspoon of sesame oil.

No supernatural products are listed; everything is simple and affordable. The cooking itself is also easy, everyone will cope with it, even those who have never cooked Chinese food. We describe the recipe step by step, so you won’t get confused.

Chinese pork cooking

1. The meat needs to be frozen in order to easily cut it into thin layers. Cut, pour in soy sauce and remove the pickle for 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
2. Next, add starch, mix well to scoop every piece.
3. In a deep fryer or in a deep frying pan, you need to heat the sunflower oil, fry the pieces on both sides for about three minutes to form a golden crust.
4. Using a slotted spoon, remove the meat from the oil, put it at a distance from each other on a paper towel so that all the excess fat is absorbed into it.
5. Carrots need to be grated for Korean carrots, or cut into thin, long strips, mix with parsley.

Next, let's do the sauce:

1. Sugar and tomato paste need to be put in a saucepan, turn on a low heat, stirring slowly, fry until sugar dissolves.
2. Then add water and vinegar, simmer for a couple of minutes.
3. Next, you need to add 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil, you can take what is left in the fryer after frying the meat.
4. Put the meat in the sauce, then carrots and parsley, mix well, cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
5. When serving, sprinkle the meat with sesame seeds.

As a side dish, rice cooked according to the recipe available in this article is suitable. You can just boil rice, cook mashed potatoes, noodles (at least Chinese, at least ordinary), or any other side dish.

Chinese sweet and sour meat

There are many recipes for making sweet and sour sauces for meat in China, and this allows you to choose the preferred one for every lover of exotic food. We offer to consider a very tasty option for cooking meat of traditional Chinese cuisine.

For 4 servings you will need:

• a pound of pork with a small layer of fat (if you do not like fat, then take without it);
• 200 grams of pineapple;
• onion head;
• carrot;
• bell pepper;
• a tablespoon of starch, as much flour;
• half a glass of soy sauce;
• some salt.

For the sauce:

• 4 tablespoons of tomato paste;
• two tablespoons of sugar and table vinegar (9%).

Cooking sweet and sour meat

1. We wash the meat, cut into wide, thin plates;
2. Soy sauce should be mixed with starch and flour, salt, pour meat on it, put in the fridge to marinate for half an hour.
3. Cut the carrots, onions, fry until golden brown, then add the pineapple and bell pepper, diced.
4. Fry the meat in a small amount of oil on both sides. When the other side is browned, pour in a mixture of tomato paste with vinegar and sugar, simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Next, pour the sauce in which the meat was marinated, spread the fried vegetables, salt, if thick, add a little water. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes.

The best side dish for such meat is simple boiled rice. You can also serve meat without a side dish, because it has a lot of vegetables.

Chicken in Chinese Sauce

This is also a dish from the menu of a Chinese restaurant. Chicken is cooked easily, all ingredients are available. As a result, the dish turns out to be very tasty and fragrant, will not leave anyone indifferent!

Products for cooking:

• 400 grams of chicken breasts;
• two bell peppers;
• two cloves of garlic;
• two tablespoons of soy sauce, apple cider vinegar and sunflower oil;
• three tablespoons of water;
• a teaspoon of starch, half - salt;
• a tablespoon of sugar;
• parsley and sesame seeds - to taste.

How to cook chicken in Chinese

1. The first thing to do is to properly chop the breasts - into thin strips and only along the fibers;
2. Heat sunflower oil in a pan, fry the pieces on both sides until white.
3. In the same pan you need to fry the chopped bell pepper. Ideally, if the top of the pepper is soft, but remains elastic inside, check with a fork.
4. Now we prepare the sauce by mixing sugar, salt, starch, soy sauce, apple cider vinegar and water.
5. We put the meat in a pan with pepper, pour sauce and simmer on low heat for about 15 minutes, until the liquid thickens.
6. When serving, chicken should be sprinkled with sesame seeds and parsley.

As a side dish, rice or Chinese noodles are ideal.

In this article, we have suggested popular ways to cook Chinese food at home. Recipes with photos will help to cook these wonderful dishes correctly and very tasty. Enjoy your meal!