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Chinese food is a great way to expand your personal cookbook, particularly if you love to use simple, fresh ingredients with quick cooking time. These top ten dishes are favorites around the world, and are must-haves in your collection of Chinese recipes.
Fried Rice - A staple in Chinese restaurants, fried rice is the ultimate Chinese food, and can be one of the most flexible in your cookbook because you can use leftover ingredients and rice to make it. Of course, you can use fresh ingredients but it’s best to use rice that has been kept in the fridge overnight for best results. Ingredients usually involved in making fried rice are eggs, scallions, diced meat of either pork, beef or chicken, ham, prawns and vegetables such as celery, peas, carrots, bean sprouts and corn. There are many types of fried rice but the more popular ones are the Yangzhou and Fukien fried rice.
Kung Pao Chicken - Kung Pao chicken or Kung Po chicken is a Chinese dish from Sichuan cooking and is considered to be a delicacy. The recipe for this yummy dish commonly calls for diced chicken that is pre-seasoned and briefly stir-fried with unsalted roasted peanuts, red swee peppers, rice wine or sherry, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, oyster sauce, and chili peppers. Alternatively, you can use pork, beef, shrimp or scallops in place of the chicken.
Moo Shu Pork - This is a dish of northern Chinese origin and a favorite of many. Ingredients in a Mushu pork recipe often involve green cabbage, wood ear mushrooms, scrambled eggs, carrots, bean sprouts, day lily buds and scallions. Celery, onions, bell peppers, snow pea pods, bok choy and Shiitake mushrooms are occasionally used. The vegetables are cut into thin and long strips before cooking, with the exception for day lily buds and bean sprouts. Fried Mushu pork is then wrapped in moo shu pancakes that is brushed with hoisin sauce and eaten by hand. Moo shu pancakes are thin wrappers made of flour that is easily available in supermarkets and steamed right before eating.
Sesame Chicken - Sesame chicken or sesame seed chicken is a Chinese dish originated from Hunan and is very similar to General Tso's chicken. Its recipe involves chicken pieces that are boned and battered, and then deep fried. It is then dressed with sauce made from Chinese vinegar or wine, chicken broth, sugar and cornstarch solution. Finally, top it off with toasted sesame seed generously on the dish and serve hot with white rice.
Spring Rolls - Spring rolls make wonderful snacks and appetizers. They are similar to egg rolls, but are slightly different to its cousin. Springs rolls are have thinner skin, less filling and therefore smaller than egg rolls. To make a spring roll, minced meat and thinly cut strips of vegetables are rolled and sealed in a circular or square rice paper. It is then deep fried till crispy and golden brown. Serve this crowd pleaser piping hot.
Fortune Cookies - Chinese cooking would simply not be complete without the addition of a recipe for fortune cookies. All you need to make these cookies are some sugar, flour, eggs and vanilla extract, making them a simple way to add some fun to your home cooked Chinese meal.
Beef and Broccoli - The key to creating a delicious Beef and Broccoli dish at home is to make an excellent sauce made up of cornstarch, oyster sauce, thick soy sauce and light soy sauce. Marinade the beef before stir frying with cornstarch solution, soy sauce, sugar and rice vinegar.
Sweet and Sour Pork - This savory-sweet all-time favorite Chinese dish is of Cantonese origin. It is a good dish to prepare when you are planning on having guests, who will be wildly impressed with your cooking skill. As with other Chinese food recipes, the key to making a great Sweet and Sour Pork dish is in the sauce made of soy sauce, white vinegar, ketchup and sugar. Its ingredients include pork, onion, bell pepper and pineapple chopped into bite size pieces.
Chow Mein - In American Chinese cooking, Chow Mein is a stir-fried dish consisting of noodles, meat such usually chicken, pork, shrimp and beef, cabbage and other vegetables.
Egg Fu Yong - Egg foo young, also spelled egg furong, egg fu yung, egg fooyung, or egg foo yong is an hearty American Chinese dish. It’s basically an omelette prepared with eggs beaten with minced vegetables or meat. Lobster, beef, chicken, shrimp, Chinese sausage, ham or roast pork may be used as meat while water chestnuts, celery and bean sprouts for vegetables.
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