Category Archives: Chinese Food Recipes
Noodles with Flank Steak, Bok Choy, and Black Bean Sauce Recipe
Chinese black bean sauce has the power to make anything it touches taste meatier and more robust. More importantly, it does this almost instantly, without any long simmering required. This is especially welcome on a busy weeknight, because all I have to do is prep and cook some vegetables and meat, boil some noodles, mix…
Steamed Buns with Simmered Daikon and Shiitake, Pickled Bean Sprouts, and Spicy Mayonnaise (Vegan) Recipe
Vegan Chinese steamed buns filled with juicy simmered daikon and shiitake mushrooms along with a spicy mayonnaise and pickled mung bean sprouts. Note: Mirin is a sweet Japanese rice wine that can be found in most supermarkets or Asian grocers. If unavailable, substitute an extra quarter cup of sake and sugar. 1 (6-inch) piece daikon…
Raspberry Rose Jam Recipe
A jewel-colored jam full of fruit and flower petals that makes the perfect addition to a proper teatime or a sophisticated twist on your grandmothers thumbprint cookie recipe. 1/4 cup Chinese rose tea 3 cups granulated sugar 2 pints raspberries (about 4 cups, 1 1/2 pounds), gently washed 2 tablespoons juice from 1 lemon Place…
Sauced: Char Siu Sauce Recipe
Char Siu doesn’t refer to a sauce particularly, but the final product after this “Chinese barbecue sauce” is applied to pork that is hung onto fork skewers and roasted. Still, there’s a fairly common base set of ingredients including hoisin, honey, soy sauce, sherry, Chinese five spice powder that imparts the ubiquitous flavor and glossy…
Peanut Chicken and Chinese Egg Noodles with Baby Bok Choy and Baby Corn Recipe
Chinese Steamed Whole Fish With Fermented Black Beans and Garlic Recipe
Why It Works Cooking the fish with scallions and ginger infuses it with a fresh, clean flavor.Cooking fermented beans and garlic while steamed fish rests allows fish to come to proper temperature before serving (it shouldn’t be piping hot). Food served during the Chinese Lunar New Year is full of symbolism. A platter of citrus…
The Best Chinese Sesame Chicken Recipe
Classic Chinese take-out, made in your own kitchen. Why It Works A balanced sauce has plenty of vinegary kick to balance out the cloying sweetness that most restaurant versions have.Cooking the aromatics for the sauce at a lower temperature lets their flavors develop without having to superheat your wok or skillet.Adding vodka to the chicken…
Chinese Fried Pork and Cabbage Dumplings With Homemade Wrappers (guo tie) Recipe
Nice fatty pork keeps things moist, while cabbage acts much in the way that breadcrumbs work in meatloaf or meatballs: it physically impedes the pork muscly proteins from binding too tightly with each other, ensuring that the filling stays tender without shrinking. How many times have you bitten into a restaurant dumpling only to find…
Soup Dumplings (Xiao Long Bao) Recipe
Why It Works Collagen-rich cuts of chicken ensure the stock will gel properly.Homemade dumpling wrappers are perfect for stretching around the filling and crimping into the traditional purse shape that keeps the juicy soup filling from leaking out.Whisking the jellied stock with the filling simplifies the dumpling-making process. Ok, so we’ve been through guo tie (fried dumplings),…