Chinese Cooking 101 - Prepare a Proper Chinese Dinner
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A basic Chinese dinner meal usually comes with a meat main dish, a soup, and a vegetable side dish (一荤一素一汤). Then served with white rice. Of course, the standard can change depending on the servings, if it is a big event like a wedding, usually, there will be 12-18 dishes on each table. If you just cook for yourself, you can minimize it to one recipe. Today's video is an example to show you how to prepare a proper Chinese dinner meal. I will talk about the culture behind it and why we make it this way. Hope you enjoy it!
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Shrimp & Asian chive dumplings (Saeu buchu mandu: 새우 부추 만두)
Today I'm going to show you a delicious, easy recipe for making Korean dumplings (aka mandu: 만두). Deliciousness of dumplings depends on the filling, and the mandu I'm showing today is made with only a few ingredients but is perfectly tasty and succulent, with a savory richness.
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Teochew Five Spice Roll Recipe(潮州五香卷)
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Teochew Five Spices Meat Roll is popular in the Southeast coastal cities in China and some Southeast Asian countries. These rolls look like sausages. You can also think of them as egg rolls but gluten-free because the wrapper is made with tofu skin - super crispy. With the juicy and flavorful filling, these rolls are beyond delicious.
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INGREDIENTS
2-3 sheets of tofu skin, cut into 6*9 inches size
1 lb (450 grams) of pork shoulder
1/2 lb (226 grams) of Jicama, peeled and diced
4 scallions, use the white part, diced
1 Egg
2 tbsp of minced garlic
1 tbsp of minced ginger
1/2 tbsp of fish powder
1 tsp of 5 spice powder (Amazon Link -
1 tbsp of soy sauce (Amazon Link -
1 tbsp of fish sauce (Amazon Link -
1 tsp of salt (Amazon Link -
1/4 cup of sweet potato starch, can be replaced by tapioca starch (Amazon Link -
2 cups of frying oil (Amazon Link -
Your favorite chili sauce for dipping
INSTRUCTIONS
Cut the big tofu skin into 6*9 inches sheets and set it aside.
Cut the pork into bite-size pieces, then roughly blend in a food processor. Five-spice roll is traditionally made with pork belly, but I think that is too fatty, and I recommend using pork shoulder. If you don’t have a food processor, you can use store-bought ground pork; the texture will slightly differ, but the taste will still be delicious.
Transfer the pork into a big mixing bowl. Then add egg, minced garlic, ginger, soy sauce, fish sauce, salt, five-spice powder, fish powder, and sweet potato starch. Stir within one direction for a few minutes until the meat becomes sticky.
Combine the meat with the diced Jicama and white parts of the scallion thoroughly.
Put some filling on the tofu skin and shape the filling into a long log. Next, roll up the tofu skin to wrap the meat. Slightly dap some water on the rest of the sheet to seal the five-spice roll. Do this to all the five-spice rolls.
Let the rolls rest for 10 minutes or until the tofu skin becomes soft. Then, pinch both ends of the roll so the filling is not exposed.
Heat the oil to 320 F. deep fry the five-spice roll over low heat for 8-10 minutes. You can pan-fry or shallow fry them if you want to use less oil. Do not fry them on high heat because the tofu skin burns quickly.
Serve it as an appetizer or a side dish. You can also top it on noodle soup and congee.
BETTER THAN BOTTLED - Six Dumpling Dipping Sauce Recipes
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Today I am giving you 6 dumpling dipping sauce recipes that you must try. I covered different styles from north and south of China. Some are Spicy, some are not. Some are sweet, some are savory. Make sure to watch it until the end. You will find something you like. So let’s get started.
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NO.1 - Chili oil dipping sauce (serves 1-2)
- 2 tbsp of soy sauce [Amazon link:
- 2 tsp of Chinese black vinegar [Amazon Link:
- 1.5 tbsp of homemade hot chili oil [Recipe Link:
NO.2 - Sesame peanut dipping sauce (serves 2-3)
- 3 tbsp of 100% peanut butter [Amazon Link:
- 1 tbsp of 100% sesame paste [Amazon Link:
- 2-3 tbsp of sugar
- 1.5 piece of Chinese bean curd [Amazon Link:
- 1/2 tsp of salt or to taste
- 3-4 tbsp of boiling water
- cilantro and sesame seeds as garnish
NO.3 - Spicy soy dipping sauce (serves 3)
- 1/4 cup of soy sauce [Amazon link:
- 2 tsp of diced hot chili
- 1 tbsp of diced cilantro
- 1 tbsp of diced scallion
- 1/2 tsp of sugar
- 1.5 tsp of sesame oil [Amazon Link:
- Water to adjust the saltiness
NO.4 - Vinegar ginger dipping sauce (serves 1)
- some shredded fresh ginger
- 2 tbsp of white vinegar
- 2 tsp of soy sauce [Amazon link:
NO.5 - Garlic vinegar sauce (serves 1)
- 1 tbsp (4-5 cloves) of garlic
- 1/2 tsp of salt or to taste
- 1/4 tsp of sugar
- 2 tsp of sesame oil [Amazon Link:
- 1- 2 tbsp of vinegar
- white pepper to taste
- red pepper flake and sesame seeds as garnish (optional)
NO.6 - Scallion ginger dipping sauce (serves 2)
- 2.5 tbsp of grated ginger
- 3 tbsp of diced scallion
- 1.5 tsp of diced cilantro stem
- 2-3 tbsp of peanut oil or vegetable oil
- white pepper to taste
- 1/2 tsp of salt or to taste
Shrimp / Prawn Crackers Recipe
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This is a snack for my lunar new year dinner. Perfect for the guest to eat on while waiting for dinner. Even though it is called cracker (炸虾片), it is more like shrimp-flavored chips - extremely crispy and hard to resist. I haven't met anybody that doesn't like them LOL!
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Ingredients
150 peeled and deveined shrimp
1/2 tsp of salt (Amazon Link -
1.5 tbsp of fish sauce (Amazon Link -
1 tbsp of minced garlic
1/2 tbsp of minced ginger
1 tsp of garlic powder (Amazon Link -
1 tsp of onion powder (Amazon Link -
1/2 tsp of 5 spice powder (Amazon Link -
1/2 tsp of finely ground white pepper or to taste (Amazon Link -
30 g crushed ice
240 g-260g of tapioca flour (Amazon Link -
Instructions
Add the shrimp into a food processor along with all the seasoning and the crushed ice. Blend until smooth. If you don’t eat shrimp, you can change it to fish, or squid.
Add the tapioca flour in batches and blend until a non-stick dough formed. Other types of starch such as mung bean starch, potato starch, cornstarch will also work but tapioca is the best because it contains a higher percentage of amylopectin, which makes your shrimp crackers puff up bigger. Also, different brand and types of starch have a different water absorption rate, the measurement that I gave is for reference. You should adjust the water amount depending on your situation.
Roll the dough into a long, even, smooth log then cut the log into 2 manageable pieces.
Add the shrimp dough into boiling water. Stir gently until the dough floats. Then simmer on the lowest heat for 30 minutes.
Transfer the dough onto a rack and chill in the fridge uncovered for 30 hours.
Slice the dough into 1 mm thick pieces. Do not cut it too thick, otherwise, the crackers will be chewy and tough.
Place all the slices on a rack and fully dehydrate them by using one the following methods.
1)Use a dehydrator ( 4-5 hours at 120 F)
2)Put it in the oven and set the temperature at the lowest possible (3 hours at 150F).
3)Put it under the ceiling fan overnight.
Store the dehydrated crackers in a sealed container for up to 6 months.