Secret Chinese Food Recipes

Yummy Chao Fan

admin_secret-chinese-recipes_3872 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:23:53 +0000

Chao Fan or fried rice is popular especially in Chinese food. It made from rice already cooked by steaming, stir fried using a wok with other ingredients like meat, pork, vegetables and eggs thus leading to variations. There’s no special recipe for fried rice but a great way to make one is to use leftovers.

Here’s a basic recipe of Chao Fan/Fried Rice, the good thing about this is you get to choose what ingredient you want to add.

1 – 2 green onions, as desired

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon salt

Pepper to taste

4 tablespoons oil for stir-frying, or as needed

4 cups cold cooked rice

1 – 2 tablespoons light soy sauce or oyster sauce, as desired

Wash and finely chopped the green onions.

Beat the eggs lightly, season with salt and pepper.

Heat the wok or pan and add 2 tbsp of cooking oil.

When the oil is hot, add the eggs. Continue stirring it until it is scrambled but not dry. Remove the eggs and clean the pan out.

Add 2 tbsp of oil then add rice.

Stir-fry for a few minutes and break it apart.

Stir in the soy sauce or oyster sauce as desired.

When the rice is already heated through, add the eggs and green onions. Mix thoroughly.

Serve hot.

Fried Rice can be eaten as side dish or main meal. You can turn this simple dish as the main meal by adding meat, seafood and vegetables just make sure you’ll make to increase the number of eggs to 3. It can be served with different side dishes and garnishes depending on one’s taste.

Chinese Recipes: The Secret Behind the Secret

admin_secret-chinese-recipes_3872 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:07:41 +0000

China is one of the most successful country, not just in Asia but all over the world. With this success, Chinese people have been known for its creativity and innovation. That is why, they are very known as good businessmen. Apart from being businessmen, characteristics of a Chinese people is define through their cuisines. Many people, especially professional ones, are very curious on the secret behind the Chinese cuisines as it is indeed one of a kind.

Flavors of the Chinese food illustrates balance of everything. It comprise of different taste that will burst into your mouth. Flavors are not overwhelming as it compliments each other. That is why, its delectable dishes is truly amazing. Besides, their culture demand that should be eaten right after it was cooked. Well, every food is best enjoyed when its warm and hot as the flavors will surely give you pleasure. Aside from the creativeness each cuisines emphasize, the effect of mystery and desire never fail to give you the urge to taste it.

Another factor of the mystery behind Chinese cuisine is the heart they put on it. As they treat their food as part of their appreciation into art. That is why, their cuisines are created as a work of art. Also, the loving care, the delicateness, the wit and the spice behind every cuisine make it distinctive and very hard to emulate. Nothing can top a cuisine that is actually experienced in its own country. If you have the opportunity to visit China, your stay is will not be complete without experiencing their food that defines China’s way of living.

Nevertheless, the chance of living through China, especially the cuisine, is best experienced if spend with your family and friends. Sometimes, the secret behind the cuisine is not found on the dish itself but with the portrait as you devour on it.

Secret Chinese Recipes: Black Chicken

blogposter_secret-chinese-recipes_8766 — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:39:21 +0000

The thing about secrets is that if they are known, then they wouldn’t be secrets anymore would they? That being established, the word “secret”, when attached to “Chinese recipes” immediately connotes mystery, magic, or at the very least exotic. As to being palatable, we watch enough Andrew Zimmern to know that it just might be good, but requires a lot of courage to attempt ingestion. But really, when you think about it, the Chinese are masters of deliciousness, why would they have secret recipes to dishes that aren’t good?

Chances are, the more secret the recipe, the more magical, mystical, and exotic it is, the more mind-blowingly good. There may be healing powers or aphrodisiac properties in it or it may contain ingredients that would unleash some kind of power within you.

A great “secret” recipe to unearth would be one for black chicken soup. Black chicken, or wuji as it’s called in China, is also known as silkie, and it is a smallish type chicken native to China and Southeast Asia, but is now found in frozen food sections in a lot of supermarkets in the U.S. And as its name suggests, it is black, from its skin all the way to the bones. It has been cooked and eaten for more than a thousand years because if its incredible healing properties. These days its considered one of the new “superfoods” because of its awesomely high levels of antioxidants. Recipes for this intriguing ingredient usually involves making a soup with it with yams, wolfberries and ginseng.

Its color may put you off, but eternal youth sounds like a pretty good motivation.