Chinese food

Yeah, we like battered lemon chicken with steamed rice and peas. CBF to type it all out but it's lovely!

We also do sirloin steak + oyster sauce 'on a bed of' fine egg noodles quite a lot. Yummy.
 
Chinese style egg fried rice is very easy to make, or similarly stir frys are easy to do.

Involves mince (uber cheap), prawns, lots of veg soy sauce, two other sauces with herbs/spices. Fry that until the veg have been reduced in size and the meat is cooked, in the mean time cook rice. Then when rice is done add it, break an egg or two depending how much you are doing or how "eggy" you want it and add some more soy sauce on it fry a bit more and job done.

Or instead of rice use thin shrimp egg noodles for stir-fry effect (without eggs). If you like it spicy can always add cut green apples into the strifry for a spicy meat/green apples contrast. But add apples last with the noodles.

If you want to do it "properly" then you need to fry most of those things separately before mixing it all once they are all cooked, ie get meat to soak up the flavour, then vegies and rice fried with eggs/noodles last.

Normally make either for breakfast so cut corners and it stil ltastes pretty good. Don't use "easy cook" rice though, it tastes meh, long grain tesco/sainsbury value brand is better.

What I was meant to say, is feel free to experiment with what you like. Cooking is about discovering what works for you, not following set in stone rules.
 
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I've got a great recipe for chicken chow mein at home and the gf can make some fantastic fried noodles. They go great together.

I'll try and remember to write up the recipe here. It's not that difficult but you do need things like oyster sauce and chicken stock.
 
I'd be interested in the Chow Mein recipe Darg :)

I cook Chicken or Beef Fried Rice when I get chance. I would have it more often, but you need to let the boiled rice cool right down before you fry it. It's not one of those meals you just get up and make - unless you keep some cooked rice handy in the freezer! :D

I have also made Vermicelli a few times but that has been using pre-packaged sauce...stuff... that I got given by my brother's girlfriend. Not sure it counts as cooking when all you do is throw everything in and 10 mins later ya done lol.
 
I have cooked other stuff chinese stuff. But I usually just get a load of crunchy veg and really good fresh meat, do a stirfry using a sauce made up of fish sauce, oyster sauce and good hot chilli sauce.
 
Nope, only the Cambodia and Moroccan one. Both are excellent. They have a good spread of recipes, certainly not exhausted but a good selection. each with massive colour photos.
 
i cook a lot of chinese food. I have a book called chinese cookery masterclass which has never failed me.


One quick suggestion is making a sweet and sour sauce base which you can then quickly make dishes with. You boil rice vinegar (white wine vinegar is fine), add brown sugar, then ketchup (seriously!) and a dash of soy. Let it reduce a bit.

Makes a brilliant base that you can do all sorts of stuff with. stir fry, onion, ginger, chili, garlic, dragon fruit / pinaple, chicken, bit of honey and add the sauce base and you have an amazing kung po with very little effort.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Nope, only the Cambodia and Moroccan one. Both are excellent. They have a good spread of recipes, certainly not exhausted but a good selection. each with massive colour photos.
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Thanks. I've ordered the Chinese one and i think i'll get the Moroccan one too :)
 
Skidder said:
i cook a lot of chinese food. I have a book called chinese cookery masterclass which has never failed me.


One quick suggestion is making a sweet and sour sauce base which you can then quickly make dishes with. You boil rice vinegar (white wine vinegar is fine), add brown sugar, then ketchup (seriously!) and a dash of soy. Let it reduce a bit.

Makes a brilliant base that you can do all sorts of stuff with. stir fry, onion, ginger, chili, garlic, dragon fruit / pinaple, chicken, bit of honey and add the sauce base and you have an amazing kung po with very little effort.
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That interests me.
 
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