Not one recipe of Chinese cuisine is familiar to us thanks to cafes and restaurants. But, as it turned out, many national dishes can be prepared at home.
You should know, especially if you have already tried to make
Chinese salads at home, meat recipes and pastries from this country can also decorate your table. Let's cook one main dish and one dessert to prove it.
Chinese cuisine. Pork
Recipes of main dishes, which come from the Middle Kingdom, most often use chicken as the main ingredient. This meat is more affordable, and it goes well with soy sauce, rice pasta and most vegetables. Gu Lao Jou pork is not such a popular recipe for Chinese cuisine, but its specific sweet and sour taste is closer to Europeans than the usual pungency for an Oriental. Some exotic ingredients can be replaced with more affordable ones. For example, instead of bamboo shoots, take green beans. And instead of lemongrass - an ordinary lemon.
You will need six hundred grams of pork (spatula or tenderloin), a small can of canned pineapple, one carrot, one paprika, two small hot peppers (for example, chili) and half a packet of green beans. All of the above are components of the meat base. In addition to it, you will still need to make a marinade from starch, flour and soy sauce, taken in equal proportions. Also, this
Chinese recipe requires a sauce. It will require the juice of one large lemon, a small bag of tomato paste (100-150 grams) and three teaspoons of sugar. Start with the marinade: pour the
soy sauce in a deep plate, add the starch and flour and make sure that the resulting mixture resembles sour cream in consistency. Place pork washed and sliced into thin flat strips for thirty-five minutes. Meanwhile, peel and dice the carrots, and the paprika and chili into small slices. Sauté the vegetables until half cooked, add slices of pineapple to them and then simmer for another eight minutes. Put on a plate, and fry the pickled meat in a pan, stirring continuously.
You need to achieve a uniform golden crust. At the same time, the meat should remain soft inside. Make a sauce of tomato, lemon and sugar. Mix all the ingredients in one plate and serve with boiled rice.
Fortune Cookies - Chinese Recipe
In these delicate products, it is customary to invest messages written on paper stripes. Because of this, cookies are not just sweets served with tea; they can amuse and entertain a whole company. For the test you need to take half a glass of powdered sugar, ninety grams of premium flour, thirty-five grams of butter, forty-five grams of corn starch and three proteins. Take a deep bowl. In it, whisk the whites to a light foam. Add melted butter, vanillin, flour, starch and powdered sugar (all these components must be sieved beforehand). Mix together with a mixer at low speeds, you get a viscous dough. Pour it onto a baking sheet with a tablespoon, holding it vertically, so you get round cookies. Bake until the edges are browned. Then bend the still warm cookies in half and put in it a prediction or a wish printed on a small paper sheet.