Beijing Culture: Easy Chinese Home Cooking 简单的中国家常菜
Chinese Home Cooking - Shi Chong Yin
Chopped Cold Cucumbers 拍黄瓜
Ingredients: cucumber 300g, garlic 10g, coriander 10g
Seasonings: salt 2.5g, sugar 0.5g, vinegar (to taste) Chicken essence seasoning 味精 鸡精 1.5g, sesame oil 芝麻油 a drizzle
Cooking steps
- 1. Chop cucumbers length ways or across, as preferred
- 2. Put them in a big bowl
- 3. Chop garlic finely, then sprinkle on the cucumbers
- 4. Add salt, chicken essence seasoning, sugar in bowl and mix them with large spoon
- 5. Add some vinegar according to your taste and a little sesame oil in bowl and stir
- 6. Add coriander
- If you like spicy food, add some chili oil to the dish
- Be careful: Don't peel the cucumbers; Add the sesame oil last
Combination Fried Rice 什锦炒饭
Ingredients: cooked rice 100g (rice from previous night is better), carrot 10g, cucumber or string bean 10g, sausage or ham 10g, chive 5g, egg 1
Seasonings: salt 1g, chicken essence seasoning 味精 鸡精 0.5g, pepper, oil 15g
Cooking steps
- 1. Cut the sausages or ham, cucumbers and the peeled carrots into small cubes
- 2. Add water to wok, let the water boil over high-heat and add string beans (do not boil cucumber in the hot water), carrot cubes in the pan, boil them, and then put them in a bowl without the water
- 3. Pour oil into dry wok and fry the egg when the oil is hot, then add the rice, sausages or ham cubes, and the other boiled ingredients in the pan and fry them
- 4. Finally, add the salt, chicken essence seasoning, pepper and chives in the pan and fry them for one minute. It is ready to eat.
Braised Chicken Wings 红烧鸡翅
Ingredients: chicken wings 300g, ginger 8g, chive 5g, white sesame seed 2g
Seasonings: salt 3g, Chicken essence seasoning 味精 鸡精 1.5g, cassia cinnamon one small piece, dry chilli 4g, pepper, soy sauce 2g, cooking wine 4g, oil 30g
Cooking steps
- 1. Put the chicken wings and 4g ginger (cut them into small pieces) in a big bowl, add soy sauce and cooking wine. Wait for 30 minutes.
- 2. Add 20g oil to frying pan, add chicken wings one by one. Fry chicken wings until golden brown. Put wings into big bowl again and mix them with the soy sauce and cooking wine left in bowl.
- 3. Add 10g oil to wok. When hot, add 4g ginger and the chicken wings and fry.
- 4. Put some cold water in the wok until water almost above wings
- 5. Add the cassia cinnamon and dry chilli, boil them until the water has dried.
- 6. Add salt, pepper and chicken essence seasoning to wok and fry them.
- 7. Finally, serve the wings on a tray and add chives and white sesame seed.
Mushroom with Chinese Greens 香菇扒油菜
Ingredients: dry or fresh mushroom 200g, Chinese greens 250g, meat stock or water 20g
Seasonings: Oyster sauce 10g, salt 2g, starch 4g, Chicken essence seasoning 味精 鸡精 1g, oil 20g
Cooking steps
- 1. If you use dry mushrooms, soak in water until soft.
- 2. Clean the Chinese greens, cut off mushroom stems.
- 3. Heat 10g oil in wok. Add Chinese greens, add 1g salt, fry them quickly and place on tray.
- 4. Add another 10g oil to wok and heat, add mushrooms. Add some water (or meat stock), oyster sauce and 1g salt. Boil 15 minutes with low heat.
- 5. Pour starchy sauce over dish when mushrooms are cooked. Last, add some chicken essence seasoning, and put the mushrooms on Chinese greens.
White Radish and Ham Soup 白萝卜火腿汤
Ingredients: white radish 100g, ham 50g, ginger 2g, chive 5g, parsley 5g
Seasonings: salt 3g, Chicken essence seasoning 味精 鸡精 1g, pepper 0.5g, sesame oil 2g
Cooking steps
- 1. Peel the white radishes and cut them into rounds.
- 2. Cut ginger and ham into small and thin rounds. Cut chives and parsley very finely.
- 3. Add water or meat stock to wok, add white radishes and ham and boil them until well cooked.
- 4. Finally, add salt, chicken essence seasoning, pepper, chives, parsley and sesame oil.
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