Chinese food culture is extensive and profound. For some foreigners, the only way to enjoy authentic Chinese food is to go to restaurants. In fact, some Chinese food recipes can be made at home, and at the same time, the taste is the same as that of restaurants.
What we need to understand is that complex Chinese food can only be handed over to professional chefs (Chinese chef training schools), and simple Chinese food can be done by ourselves. This post will teach you how to make a delicious Chinese meal at home.
For every chinese meal,What you need to prepare is: Chinese food seasoning, Chinese wok, ingredients
Chinese Food Seasoning
Commonly used Chinese seasonings are: edible oil(食用油), salt(盐), chicken essence(鸡精), light soy sauce(生抽), dark soy sauce(老抽), vinegar(醋), cooking wine(料酒), cornstarch(生粉)
(You can choose seasonings according to the dishes you want to cook. Not every dish has the same seasonings, so you don’t have to prepare them all.)
Home Cooking Chinese Food Recipes
#1 Tomato Scrambled Eggs(番茄炒蛋)
#2 Fried Shredded Potatoes(清炒土豆丝)
#3 Sweet and Sour Pork(糖醋里脊)
#4 Kung Pao Chicken(宫保鸡丁)
#5 Mapo Tofu(麻婆豆腐)
#6 Chili Scrambled Eggs(辣椒炒鸡蛋)
#7 Chili Fried Pork(辣椒炒肉)
#8 Stir-fried Chicken Ding with Green Pepper(青椒炒鸡丁)
#9 Egg-fried Rice(蛋炒饭)
#10 Fried Noodles(炒面)
1.Tomato Scrambled Eggs(番茄炒蛋)
Ingredients: Tomatoes, Eggs, Garlic
Seasoning: edible oil, salt, vinegar, chicken essence
Cooking Steps:
1. Cut the tomatoes into cubes (or slices), beat the eggs (put a small amount of salt and white vinegar in the eggs), mince the garlic
2. After the frying pan is heated up, add cooking oil, pour in the egg liquid, stir-fry until it is set and serve it out.
3. Put oil in the frying pan, add minced garlic, fry for a while, then pour in the chopped tomatoes. Stir-fry for a while, add a small amount of white vinegar and salt, and fry the tomato juice. After about 3 minutes, pour in the scrambled eggs and stir-fry together. Add an appropriate amount of chicken essence to taste, stir-fry together to taste, and serve.
A delicious tomato scrambled eggs is ready.
2.Fried Shredded Potatoes(清炒土豆丝)
Seasoning: cooking oil, salt, vinegar
Cooking Steps:
1. Peel the potatoes and cut them into shreds, rinse with clean water to clean the starch in the potatoes; shred the peppers and mince the garlic;
2. After the frying pan is heated up, pour in cooking oil, when the oil is heated up, pour in green pepper shreds and potato shreds and stir fry together;
3. After the shredded potatoes are fried until soft and cooked, add salt and vinegar, and continue to stir-fry to taste;
4. Put minced garlic and stir-fry together before serving out of the pan, then take out and put on a plate;
A delicious Fried Shredded Potatoes is ready.
3.Sweet and Sour Pork(糖醋里脊)
Seasoning: Vinegar, sugar, tomato paste, white pepper, starch, salt, light soy sauce, cooking wine, oil consumption
Cooking Steps:
1. Cured meat: Cut the pork tenderloin into thick slices first, and pat it with the back of a knife to loosen the meat. Cut into strips as thick as a finger, add cooking wine, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, a little salt, white pepper, an egg (or egg white), grasp the meat evenly with your hands, and marinate for more than 20 minutes.
2. Sauce: 3 spoonfuls of tomato sauce + 1 spoonful of white vinegar + 1 spoonful of sugar + 1 spoonful of starch + half a bowl (rice bowl) of water, stir until the sugar melts, set aside for later use.
3. Coating with flour: Generally, veterans are deep-fried while coating with flour. For beginners, it is recommended to coat all the flour before frying, so that they will not be in a hurry when frying. Prepare a large bowl and put dry starch, cornstarch, sweet potato starch, or potato starch in it. Coat each strip of meat thoroughly with dry starch.
4. Frying: When the oil temperature is about 160 degrees, put the tenderloin in the oil, you can take a dry chopstick and put it in the oil for a test, and it can be put into the pan when there are small bubbles around it. Fry until the surface is slightly yellow and can be removed, and the whole process is medium heat. Then wait for a few minutes, the oil temperature rises to about 200 degrees, pour the tenderloin in and fry it again, it only takes 40 seconds, the skin will be very crispy, take it out immediately.
5. Wrapping the sauce: take another pot, put a little base oil in the pot, pour the prepared sauce into it, cook until it bubbles, put the fried tenderloin in, stir fry, and let each root be wrapped Serve with sauce.
A delicious Sweet and Sour Pork is ready.
4.Kung Pao Chicken(宫保鸡丁)
Seasoning: Edible oil, cooking wine, dark soy sauce, salt, cornstarch, pepper, sugar, chicken essence, light soy sauce, vinegar
Cooking Steps:
1. Dice chicken and marinate
Prepare an appropriate amount of chicken breast and cut it into cubes, marinate the chopped chicken, add an appropriate amount of salt, a little cooking wine, add egg white to make the chicken more tender, add dark soy sauce for coloring, and mix well with your hands. Grab and stir until smooth.
2. Add cornstarch and oil and mix
Add an appropriate amount of cornstarch to lock the moisture in the diced chicken, add an appropriate amount of oil and mix well to prevent it from sticking to the pan.
3. Cut the ingredients
Cucumbers and carrots are diced, appropriate amount of dried peppers and peppercorns are prepared, some green onions are cut into sections, ginger is diced, and garlic is diced.
4. Make the sauce
Prepare an appropriate amount of water in a bowl, add 15 grams of sugar, a little chicken essence, a spoonful of cooking wine, a spoonful of dark soy sauce, then add half a spoonful of light soy sauce, one and a half spoonfuls of mature vinegar, and then add an appropriate amount of cornstarch and stir well.
5. Burn the oil and loosen the diced chicken, take it out and set aside
Heat the oil in the pot, heat the oil to 30% heat, add the diced chicken, and slide it for about 30 seconds. Stir fry until the diced chicken changes color, then add cucumber and diced carrots, stir fry for ten seconds, pour it out to control the oil after frying.
6. Burn oil and stir-fry small ingredients
Add an appropriate amount of oil to the pot, add ginger and garlic and saute until fragrant, add dried chili and peppercorns after sautéing, add scallions and stir fry for a few times.
7. Pour in the diced chicken sauce and stir fry out of the pan
Pour in the diced chicken and stir-fry, stir-fry evenly, pour in the prepared sauce, thicken the soup with high heat, stir-fry for a few times, pour in the oil, add peanuts and stir-fry for a few times, then it will be out of the pan turntable.
A delicious Kung Pao Chicken is ready.
5.Mapo Tofu(麻婆豆腐)
Seasoning: Edible salt, edible oil, bean paste, soy sauce, oyster sauce, water starch
Cooking Steps:
1. Prepare a piece of tofu about half a catty to one catty, and then prepare a large piece of ginger, 5-8 cloves of garlic, an appropriate amount of edible salt, cooking oil, a spoonful of bean paste, an appropriate amount of soy sauce, oyster sauce and a bowl of water starch That’s it.
2. Take out the prepared tofu and clean it, then drain the water on the surface, then cut the tofu into thick slices, and then cut it into small pieces, and put the cut tofu pieces on a plate for later use. Then take out the ginger, clean it, peel it, and chop it into pieces. Put the chopped ginger into a bowl, peel the garlic, chop it into pieces, and put it in a bowl.
3. After the ginger and garlic are cut, chop a little shallot, chop the shallot and put it on a plate for later use. Next, boil half a pot of boiling water. After the water boils, put a spoonful of edible salt in it, and then put the tofu in and blanch it again, which can remove the beany smell of the tofu.
4. Tofu does not need to be blanched for a long time, it takes about two minutes. After two minutes, put it out of the pan and put it aside for later use. Next, start the pan and heat the oil. You can put a little more cooking oil, then heat the cooking oil. After it is hot, add the onion, ginger and garlic and sauté until fragrant.
5. After sautéing the onion, ginger and garlic, put the prepared spoonful of bean paste into it, and fry its red oil. After frying the red oil, add an appropriate amount of water to the pot to boil them, and then add an appropriate amount of Add light soy sauce and oyster sauce, put tofu in it, then add some water starch to thicken it, and cook over high heat until the soup thickens.
6. Use a high fire when cooking the soup, so that it is easy to cook the soup very thick. After the soup is thick, put the chopped green onion into the pot, and then stir it a little bit to get out of the pot
A delicious Mapo Tofu is ready.
6.Chili Scrambled Eggs(辣椒炒鸡蛋)
Seasoning: salt, chicken essence
Cooking Steps:
1. Crack the eggs into a bowl, add salt and chicken essence and stir well with chopsticks. Wash the hot millet and cut it obliquely into strips. Prepare a little scallion and ginger.
2. Put a little oil in the frying pan and heat it up, add millet and stir-fry spicy, add chopped green onion and minced ginger and stir-fry until fragrant.
3. Drizzle egg liquid to wrap the chili peppers, pour a little oil along the side of the pot, after the eggs and chili peppers are set, turn over and fry the other side, when both sides are golden brown, beat the eggs with a spoon and fry them into large pieces. Plate.
A delicious Chili Scrambled Eggs is ready.
7.Chili Fried Pork(辣椒炒肉)
Seasoning: Salt, monosodium glutamate, fermented soybeans, soy sauce for steamed fish
Cooking steps:
1. Wash the screw pepper, remove the root, and cut into hob pieces. Crush the garlic and cut the ginger into smaller slices.
2. Cut the front leg meat into even thin slices, add a little soy sauce and cooking wine until it becomes sticky.
3. Heat up the frying pan without oil, put the screw pepper into the pot, add a teaspoon of salt, stir-fry on low heat for about one minute, do not fry until the screw pepper softens a bit. Turn on the exhaust fan when frying the screw pepper, otherwise it will be more spicy. After dry frying in this way, the screw pepper will have another taste.
4. Wash the wok and reheat it, add a little cooking oil, add sliced meat and stir-fry until raw, add sliced ginger and tempeh to stir-fry until fragrant. Add a little cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, add an appropriate amount of steamed fish soy sauce and stir well, add screw pepper and stir fry evenly, add a little salt and monosodium glutamate to taste, add crushed garlic and stir fry. Pour in a little sesame oil, stir well and take out of the pan.
Production essentials: The pork needs to be marinated for a while, with a little base flavor. The screw pepper needs to be dry-fried in a pan with salt to remove part of the water.
A delicious Chili Fried Pork is ready.
8.Stir-fried Chicken Ding with Green Pepper(青椒炒鸡丁)
Seasoning: Salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, pepper, soy sauce, water starch
Cooking Steps:
1. Peel and wash the carrots, cut into diamond-shaped cubes. Remove the root of the green pepper, rinse it, cut it from the middle, cut it into strips and then into small cubes. Finely chop the green onions, peel the ginger and cut it into minced ginger.
2. Clean the chicken breast and drain the water. Cut into thick slices and then cut into dices of about 2 cm, soak in clean water for about ten minutes, grab and wash to remove blood.
3. Drain the diced chicken and put it in a bowl, put a little salt, cooking wine and pepper and mix well, then add a little starch soaked in water, stir well, and set aside for sizing.
4. Heat a non-stick pan, pour in a little cooking oil, heat it to about 60% hot, add the diced chicken and stir-fry until the surface changes color, then pour it out.
5. Leave a little base oil in the pot, add chopped green onion and minced ginger and sauté until fragrant. Add carrots and diced green peppers and stir-fry for about a minute. Pour the diced chicken into the pan and stir well. Add a little cooking wine to remove the fishy smell.
6. Add an appropriate amount of soy sauce to fry the diced chicken for coloring, add a little salt, monosodium glutamate, and pepper to taste, pour in a little water starch to thicken, stir fry evenly, and pour in sesame oil to enhance the taste.
A delicious Stir-fried Chicken Ding with Green Pepper is ready.
9.Egg-fried Rice(蛋炒饭)
Seasoning: cooking oil, salt, pepper, soy sauce
Cooking Steps:
1. Heat up the frying pan, pour cooking oil into the pan, after the oil is heated, beat eggs into the pan.
2. Use a spatula to stir and break up the eggs, and fry them into grains.
3. Add the prepared diced ham and corn kernels and stir fry;
4. Pour in the rice and use a spatula to separate the rice so that the grains are distinct;
5. Add salt, stir-fry with light soy sauce, sprinkle with shallots, take out of the pan
A delicious Egg-fried Rice is ready.
10.Fried Noodles(炒面)
Seasoning: cooking oil, salt, pepper, old soy
Cooking Steps:
1. Heat up the frying pan, pour cooking oil into the pan, after the oil is heated, beat eggs into the pan.
2. Use a spatula to stir and break up the eggs, and fry them into grains.
3. Add the prepared side dishes and stir fry;
4. Pour in the noodles and start frying, add salt, a little dark soy sauce for coloring, sprinkle with shallots and take out of the pan
A delicious Fried Noodles is ready.
[…] Mapo tofu is one of the classic dishes in Sichuan cuisine. It is loved for its spicy, delicious and tender taste. It is cut into small pieces of tofu, served with minced pork, bean paste, ginger and garlic, plus pepper and chili, and cooked slowly. It tastes spicy, delicious and very appetizing. […]