Chinese Recipes - So Easy And So Impressive!

By: Jonathan Teng  

The chinese cuisine is fantastic!

It is composed of more that 14000 recipes to date... No other cuisine comes close to it! If you have never prepared a chinese menu in your kitchen, so here is your chance to quickly and easily learn 3 delicious dishes....


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CASHEW CHICKEN

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3 Chicken breasts (boned and skinned)

1/2 lb. Chinese pea pods

1/2 lb. Mushrooms

4 Green onions

2 cups Bamboo shoots, drained

1 cup Chicken broth

1/4 cup Soy sauce

2 tb Corn starch

1/2 ts Sugar

1/2 ts Salt

4 tb Salad oil

1 pack Cashew nuts (about 4−oz)

PREPARATION: Slice breasts horizontally into very thin slices and cut into inch squares. Place on tray. Prepare vegetables, removing ends and strings from pea pods, slicing mushrooms, green part of onions, and the bamboo shoots. Add to tray.

Mix soy sauce, cornstarch, sugar, and salt. Heat 1 tbls of oil in skillet over moderate heat, add all the nuts, and cook 1 min shaking the pan, toasting the nuts lightly. Remove and reserve. Pour remaining oil in pan, fry chicken quickly, turning often until it looks opaque. Lower heat to low. Add pea pods, mushrooms, and broth.

Cover and cook slowly for 2 mins. Remove cover, add soy sauce mixture, bamboo shoots, and cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Simmer uncovered a bit more and add green onions and nuts and serve immediately.


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HOT AND SOUR SOUP

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2 1/2 quarts chicken stock

1 block (16 oz.) of tofu, cut into 1 1/2 inch long strips

5 shitake mushrooms, cut into thin slices

1/2 cup soy sauce

1/2 tsp. white pepper

1/2 cup white vinegar

1 1/2 cups bamboo shoot strips

2 tablespoons cornstarch dissolved in 4 tablespoons water

3 eggs. beaten

1/2 tsp. sesame oil

PREPARATION: Combine first seven ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil. Drizzle the cornstarch mixture into the soup, stirring to thicken. Then drizzle beaten eggs into soup, stirring. Top with sesame oil.


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EGG ROLLS

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1 lb. chinese cabbage (Napa)

2 stalks celery

1/2 lb. cooked shrimp

1/2 lb. cooked pork or chicken livers

10 water chestnuts

1/3 cup bamboo shoots

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. sugar

Liberal dash pepper

1/2 tsp. light soy sauce

1/4 tsp. sesame oil

1 beaten egg

10 egg roll skins

3 cups oil

PREPARATION: Boil cabbage and celery until very tender. Drain and squeeze out excess water. Shred very fine and set aside to drain further. Parboil shrimp and fry or bake pork. Mince both. Shred water chestnuts and bamboo shoots. Mix all ingredients but egg together. Beat egg. Wrap filling in egg roll skins and seal with egg.

COOKING: Heat oil in wok or deep fat fryer to 375 degrees and drop in egg rolls. When skin turns light golden brown, remove from oil and drain. (At this point restaurants refrigerate them and finish the cooking process as needed.) When cool, drop again into hot oil and fry until golden brown. Makes 10.

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