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Ching-He Huang. Chinese Food Made Easy: 100 simple, healthy recipes from easy-to-find ingredients
Chinese Food Made Easy. Ching-He Huang
Table of Contents
Notes from a Chinese Kitchen. FACT: TRADITIONAL CHINESE COOKING IS HEALTHY
MY KIND OF FOOD
CHINA AND CHINESE CULTURE: MY ENDLESS SOURCES OF INSPIRATION
COOK FROM THE HEART
Takeaway favourites
Sweet and sour soy pork buns
Chicken and cashew nut stir-fry
Ching’s tip
Grandmother’s chicken fried rice
Ching’s tip
Egg and shiitake mushroom fried rice with tabasco
Chilli chicken with noodles
Ching’s tip
‘Egg flower’ drop soup
Sweet and sour pork
Ching’s tip
Chicken chow mein
Beef in oyster sauce
Sweet and tangy chilli beef
Singapore-style noodles
Spicy Sichuan dishes
Sichuan crispy chilli pork on lettuce
Fish fragrant aubergine pork
Dan Dan noodles
‘Ma-po’ dofu beef
Spicy hotpot
Ching’s tip
Sichuan orange beef
Bang-Bang chicken
‘Gong bao’ or ‘Kung po’ prawns
Zesty chilli and garlic tiger prawns
Spicy warm bacon or lardon and cucumber salad
Ching’s tip
Spicy dofu and edamame beans
Ching’s tip
Dumplings, dim sum and noodles
Fast hot and sour noodle pot
Sour ginger pork and celery rice noodle soup
Ching’s tip
Roast duck noodle soup
‘Wonton’ noodle soup
‘Dragon prawn’ noodles
Roast pork pastry puffs
Ching’s tip
Peanut chicken noodle salad
Pork and prawn dumplings
Ching’s tip
Porkand mushroom ‘water-dumplings’
Ching’s tip
Chicken and vegetable spring rolls
Ching’s tips
Radish and sesame soy noodle salad
Ching’s tip
Fish and seafood dishes
Cleansing clam and daikon soup
Tiger prawns and garlic chives stir-fry
Ching’s tip
Black bean steamed scallops
Wok-cooked cod with sesame soy sauce
Mussels in black bean sauce with mung bean noodles
Seafood congee
Ching’s tips
Mum’s lobster and mayo brioche
Fried chilli squid salad
Chinkiang vinegar scallops with ham
Coriander prawns and Longjing tea
Chilli crabs with ginger ‘juice’
Street food
Crispy fragrant duck
Fast dofu salad
Marbled tea eggs with oyster sauce
Stir-fried vegetable pancakes
Mango chicken
Five-spice roast chicken drumsticks
Spiced skewered lamb
Crispy chicken
Ching’s tip
Egg fu young
Five-spice beef and sesame dressing
Spiced beef stir-fry topped with spring onion and coriander
Ching’s tip
Celebration food for family and friends
Mu shu chicken
Chicken and bamboo shoot stir-fry
Ching’s tip
Drunken chicken
Ching’s tip
Crispy duck
Lamb chops in dofu ru with adzuki and butter bean mash
Lionhead meatballs
Steamed carp coated in spicy bean curd sauce
Ching’s tip
Steamed sea bass in hot beer and ginger lime sauce
Ching’s tips
Buddha’s stir-fried vegetables
Steamed egg, shiitake mushrooms and seaweed
Northern-style bean curd (dofu)
Desserts and drinks
Lychee, lime and mixed fruit jelly
Red bean paste and banana spring rolls
Ching’s tip
Durian honey puffs with vanilla ice cream and maple syrup
Great Wall of China green tea ice cream with candied walnuts
Empress Dowager Cixi’s longevity peach pudding
Almond cookies with ginger and vanilla ice cream
Mango madness
Ching’s tip
Fruity sticky rice with toffee sauce
Rambutan, raspberry and mandarin mojito
Cinnamon, rambutan, honey and rose bud tea
Goji berry, dried date and rose bud tea
Side Dishes. Rice. Steamed jasmine rice
Basic glutinous rice
Beijing rice
Stir-fried garlic pak choy
Soy and sesame French beans
Choi sum with dried shrimps
Choi sum and mixed vegetable salad with pineapple dresseing
Smacked soy and cucumber sesame salad
Steamed pak choy with oyster sauce and fried shallots
Ching’s tip
Deep-fried garlic and shallot seasoning
Black bean mushrooms
Black vinegar oyster mushrooms
Soy and pepper Chinese and chestnut mushrooms
Smoked paprika roast sweet potatoes
Red pepper and sweet chilli sauce
Wasabi mayo
Ching’s tip
Cooking techniques and storecupboard. Essential information you should know before cooking. THE TRUSTED RELIABLE WOK
ONE WOK – SEVERAL TECHNIQUES. STIR-FRYING
STEAMING
DEEP-FRYING
OTHER COOKING UTENSILS
Wok cover
Wok brush
Chinese spatula /wooden spoon
Ladle
Chinese cleaver/good knife
Cutting board
THE STORECUPBOARD
Ching’s menu planner. Chinese New Year Party: Cocktail
Starter
Main
Dessert
For a quick main meal after work, choose one of the following:
Romantic dinner for two: Starter
Main
Dessert
Friends: Cocktail
Starter
Main
Dessert
Cocktail party:
Children: Starter
Main
Dessert
Vegetarian dinner: Starter
Main
Dessert
For something comforting, choose one of the following:
Dim sum party:
Sunday lunch: Starter
Main
Dessert
Easy entertaining – meat. Starter
Main
Dessert
Easy entertaining seafood. Starter
Main
Dessert
For a healthy meal: Starter
Main
Dessert
Glossary
Adzuki red bean/red bean paste (tinned)
Bamboo shoots (tinned)
Chilli bean sauce (sauce)
Chilli oil (oil)
Chilli sauce (ingredient/dipping sauce)
Chinese beer
Chinese cabbage (fresh)
Chinese five-spice powder (spice)
Chinese kale, fresh
Chinese wood ear mushrooms (dried)
Chinkiang black rice vinegar (condiment)
Cinnamon stick/bark (spice)
Cloves (spice)
Congee (dish)
Coriander (fresh)
Coriander seeds (spice)
Cumin (spice)
Curry powder (spice)
Daikon or white radish (fresh)
Dark soy sauce (condiment)
Deep-fried dofu (bean curd) (fresh)
Dried chilli flakes (spice)
Dried Chinese mushrooms (dried)
Dried seaweed/Nori (dried)
Dried shrimp (dried)
Dried tangerine peel (spice)
Durian (fruit)
Edamame beans (fresh/frozen)
Egg noodles (fresh/dried)
Enoki mushrooms (fresh)
Fennel seeds (spice)
Fermented bean curd (dofu ru) (preserved)
Fermented salted black beans (dried)
Fish ball/Fish cake (fresh)
Fresh bean curd (dofu/tofu) (fresh)
Garlic chives (jiucai) (fresh)
Glutinous rice
Groundnut oil (oil)
Hoisin sauce (sauce)
Jasmine rice (dried)
Light soy sauce (condiment)
Longjing tea (tea)
Lychee (fruit)
Mijiu rice wine (condiment)
Mung bean noodles (dried)
Oyster mushrooms (fresh)
Oyster sauce (sauce)
Pak choy (fresh)
Pickled chilli bamboo shoots (pickle)
Potato flour (ingredient)
Preserved mustard greens/ Pickled Chinese cabbage (pickle)
Rambutans (fruit)
Rice vinegar (condiment)
Roasted soya beans (dried)
Rock sugar (dried)
Satay sauce (sauce)
Sesame paste (paste)
Sesame seeds (ingredient)
Shaohsing rice wine (condiment)
Shi wheat flour noodles (dried)
Shiitake mushrooms (fresh)
Sichuan chillies/dried chilli flakes
Sichuan peppercorns (spice)
Smoked paprika (spice)
Snake beans (fresh)
Spring roll wrappers/pastry (fresh)
Star anise (spice)
Thousand-year-old eggs (preserved)
Toasted sesame oil (condiment)
Turmeric (spice)
Vermicelli rice noodle (dried)
Wasabi (fresh/powder)
Water chestnuts (tinned)
Wheat flour dumpling wrappers/ skins (fresh/frozen)
Wheat flour flat udon noodles (dried noodles)
Wheat flour pancakes (fresh)
Wheat starch (dried)
Wonton wrapper (fresh/frozen)
Yellow bean sauce (sauce)
Notes for cooks. INGREDIENTS
EGGS
CONVERSION CHARTS
MEASURING SPOONS
AMERICAN CUPS/CONVERSIONS
UK TERM
US TERM
UK TERM
US TERM
Index
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Copyright
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