SLC23-W3 // "Chinese Cuisine"

The journey of exploring through global cuisine is getting more exciting than ever. This week, I was able to learn about Chinese popular dishes, its flavors/ ingredients and most importantly, cooking techniques.

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Question 1: Have you tried any Chinese food? Which Chinese food is available at your local places?

Yes, I have tried Chinese chicken noodle soup. There are many Chinese restaurant in my locality, each of this restaurant has different Chinese foods on their menu, it is up to you to place an order for your preferred dish. Chinese fried rice, noodles chicken wonton soup, corn soup, both sweet and sour dishes are usually available.

Question 2: Make the given recipe or any recipe that you like from Chinese cuisine step by step in detail with pictures. Include your name tag with date in final presentation of recipe

I will be sharing step by step process of preparing chicken dried chilli but in the absence of chicken, I will use beef.

Raw ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Beef	200g
Egg	1
Spring onion leaf	desired quantity
Green bell pepper	medium size
Vegetable oil	desired quantity
Chilli garlic sauce	1½ tbs
Corn flour	1½ tbs
Chicken stock	1 cube
Black pepper	1 tsp
Salt	to taste
Ginger	desired quantity
Garlic	desired quantity
Sugar	½ tsp

The above listed ingredients were used for both marination and dried chilli frying.

Preparation Procedures

The preparation procedures for this recipe has two parts;

Part 1: Marination

Adding salt	Adding black pepper	Adding egg

Step 1: wash, sliced the beef to your desired size, pour it into a bowl, add salt, black powdered pepper, egg and corn flour then mix properly and cover for the ingredients to marinate.

Adding corn flour	After mixing

After preparing the raw ingredients, I proceeded to the second part of the preparation process.

Part 2: Frying

Step 1: Heat up vegetable oil on low heat flame, add the beef and monitor till it turned light brown.

Heating oil	Added beef for deep frying	After frying

Step 2: in a pan, add a little vegetable oil, garlic and ginger then stir together.

Hot oil	Adding garlic	Adding ginger

Add green bell pepper and stir.

Adding green bell pepper	About to mix

Step 3: add fried beef , ginger and stir together.

Adding fried beef	Adding ginger

Add black pepper, salt and sugar then mix properly.

Adding black pepper	Adding salt	Adding sugar

Step 4: add chilli garlic sauce, chicken stock cube and spring onion leaves then stir them together.

Adding chilli and garlic sauce	Adding chicken stock cube	Adding spring onion leaf

Don't over cook the leaf, turn off the gas cooker in few seconds. My Chinese recipe is ready!

Ready!

I served it with white rice and it was yummy as seen in the image below;

Served!

Question 3: What is your favorite family recipe from Chinese cuisine that you make with fusion of your local species?

There are many recipes in the Chinese cuisine that are easy to make and the ingredients used are mostly popular and accessible here. My favorite family recipe from Chinese cuisine is chicken ketchup sauce made with veggies. It is very similar to this particular one taught in class but the difference is that; fresh tomatoes, ketchup ( tomato mix) and veggies ( carrots, green peas) are added. All the ingredients used in chicken dried chilli are used in chicken ketchup sauce except egg, corn flour and sugar. Chinese spaghetti is also another nice recipe to make but it is not my family's favorite, everyone enjoys the sauce more.

Question 4: Any difficulty that you faced during making recipe?

No, I didn't face any difficulty in making this recipe. It is simple and less stressful. I have made something similar to this before so it was easy for me to catch up fast. Outside the recipe, the only thing that consumed my time was when I was preparing the chilli garlic sauce used in this recipe.

Yummy!

Thank you dearest teacher for this week's course outline. I will invite @chant, @adriancabrera and @uzma4882 to join the class.