chinese cooking ?

vixtress

whisk up some eggs and do a nice foo young with noodles?

maow425

Raspberry_Swirl wrote:

soak the rice noodles in boiling water.
chop up whatever veg/meat you have into similar sized pieces. fry off some chopped chilli, garlic and ginger if you have them. then add the rest of the veg and meat. stir fry till tender or however you like it cooked.

add in the sauce and then the noodles. stir fry for a couple more minutes till everything is coated and you're done.

Add a bit of mild curry powder and some onions to the noodles, stir fry, and you have singapore noodles! We had that for tea last night, yum! If you have some chicken fillets, cut in strips and add to the stir fry too!

Juliav_2

I am going to try and turn my hand to a bit of chinese cooking to save our regular trips to the takeaway.

Does anyone have any good receipes of chinese food that turns out as nice as takeaway?

Thanks :0)

purpleivy

I'd love a recipe that comes out like the plain chow mein (ie no meat or prawns with veg etc)

Pink.

Hi Julia,

This is a recipe that I make with chicken, you can add as few or as many chillies as you like. Last time I made it I didn't have any ginger and it didn't affect the taste.


Sweet chilli chicken


4 Chicken breasts cut into cubes
1 red pepper
1 or 2 chillies depending on how hot you like it
chopped onion
4 cloves of crushed garlic
4 chopped spring onions
Corn flour


For the sauce:

Stock cube dissolved in ¾ cup of boiling water
2 teaspoons of sugar
2-3 tablespoons of soy sauce
2 teaspoons of vinegar
2 tablespoons of ketchup
a few drops of sesame oil
freshly ground black pepper

Make the sauce by putting all the ingredients into a bowl, mix and put to one side.

Fry the chicken (in batches if making for large quantities) and set aside.

Fry red pepper, chillies, onion, and garlic over a medium heat for a few minutes.

Add the sauce ingredients and bring to the boil.

Use the corn flour mixed in a little water to thicken the sauce if necessary.

Add the chicken and spring onions and heat through thoroughly.

Serve with boiled or fried rice, or noodles


There are more recipes on these older threads that might help:

Indian/Chinese food

Chinese style sauce


Pink

Pink.

purpleivy wrote: »

I'd love a recipe that comes out like the plain chow mein (ie no meat or prawns with veg etc)

Hi purpleivy,

This is how I make a veggie chow mein:

Ingredients

garlic 2-3 cloves
chilli (optional)
onion
mushrooms
red and green pepper
carrots (cut into batons)
water chestnuts (sliced) or
bamboo shoots.
sesame seed oil
soy sauce
sherry
sunflower oil
chinese egg noodles


Method

Heat the wok or pan until it's very hot then add the sunflower oil. Quickly fry the chopped garlic and chilli and add all the vegetables. (I've listed what I use but any veg of your choice will do as long as they are sort of equal in size so they take the same length of time to cook).

While they are cooking boil the noodles in a separate pan and when they're cooked drain and keep them warm.

Once the veg are cooked but still have some 'bite' add a glug of sherry and a good glug of soy sauce. Then add the drained noodles and about a desert spoon of sesame seed oil. Stir so that the veg are mixed thoroughly through the noodles and serve.

Pink

davetrousers

Remember to add a bucket of MSG (Monosodium Glutamate - E621) for that bloated feeling followed by an insatiable thirst feeling. - Meant slightly tongue in cheek.

Good luck

odds-n-sods

What recipes exactly, i have 4-5 chinese cookbooks............

point3

No.1 tip is learn how to boil rice

No.2 tip is to learn to use a wok i.e heat it up, add oil, whatever else you fancy, then water or stock and seasoning. "Chop Suey" literally means "mixed scraps"!

~Chameleon~

I was just about to post a thread asking for some advice but looks like it would fit in here quite well

I've got some rice leftover from last night and have defrosted some of the leftover turkey from xmas to make a sort of turkey/egg fried rice. Will also add some frozen peas and veggies etc but I'm wondering what else I could add to stop it being too dry, IYKWIM

We usually have curry sauce or chicken balls in s/s sauce with egg fried rice from the chinese but I don't have any chinese curry sauce here and the only "chicken balls" we have are chicken dippers :rotfl:

Would love some ideas and inspiration please