Silky Cantonese Chow Mein
Colorful, tasty and juicy with the wonderful texture of the crisp noodles, which places this firmly within my top 5 all time favorite stir-frys. You may want to use less mushrooms, but I love having tons in this!
Chicken Wings in Ok Sauce
This recipe was told to me by two chinese friends after I had been for a meal at their home and told them how much I had enjoyed the taste. It is quite easy to prepare and the ingrediants are easy to aquire localy.
Vegetable Lo Mein
Adapted from a recipe by ANGCHICK at allrecipes.com. An excellent side dish for any Asian meal, try adding ¾ lb cooked meat (chicken, pork, beef, shrimp), cut in julienne, for a main dish. * The best noodles to use are found in Asian markets, labelled “lo mein.” They’re a slightly dry, curly, fresh egg noodle. Next best is regular dried linguini. Dried egg noodles will turn mushy, as will vacuum-packed “fresh Chinese-style” egg noodles. * Hoisin sauce, also called Peking sauce, is a thick, reddish-brown sauce that is sweet and spicy, and widely used in Chinese cooking. It’s a mixture of soybeans, garlic, chile peppers and various spices. It can be found in Asian markets and many large supermarkets. Look in the Asian or ethnic section. If this item is not in stock at your local store, ask your grocer to special order it for you. Most grocers will be happy to do this for their customers.
Chicken Chow Mein
I love Chicken Chow Mein and have found that each restaurant has it’s own take on the recipe. Therefore, I have tried to compile my own favorite. This was originally from the Food Network Kitchens but it is now from Diane’s Kitchen.;) Don’t let the long laundry list frighten you, you have to get it all ready before hand and then it’s a breeze! Most of the ingredients are seasonings and items you find in your pantry. Update: 05/04/2009 – sorry but I made this over the weekend again and I tweaked it even more – I used 3 scallions instead of 1, crushed red pepper flakes – it needed a bit of a zing – used 6 ounces of button mushrooms instead of 4. Of course we have to be careful with the dark soy sauce, I use low-sodium Tamari (the flavor is much smoother) also, it is not as salty as the other – at least I think so!!
Chicken Steamed With Fresh Lemons (Sai Ling Mung Ching Gai)
This recipe is from Eileen Yin-Fei Lo’s “Chinese Chicken Cookbook”. There are quite a few chicken plus lemon dishes already on Recipezaar, including Italian (chicken piccata), Indian and Thai. This recipe is quite different, since it is steamed (actually, double steamed, which makes for a very intense, clear broth) … the ingredient list is imposing, but the process is really easy … and the flavor is fabulous — very different from the usual, thickly coated restaurant dish. As Eileen says in her introduction, the translation of the sai ling mung refers to “foreign lemons” because this is designed to use western-style lemons. Added comment (Oct 2008): Thanks to all the reviewers for their comments and photos. First, many of the recipes from Eileen Yin-Fei Lo’s book are her remembrances of her family’s (especially her aunt’s) home cooking in rural China, very traditional … so modern taste would definitely think about adding to the spectrum of spices used in this recipe. I think she would approve of changes to reflect individual palates. Second, looking at the sodium content of the analysis, I agree that getting 32% of your RDA in one dish is a bit much … you could reduce the amount of soy sauce, but if you do, you might want to increase either the wine or oyster sauce (or just add water) to maintain the liquid volume … I’d think first of reducing the 1/2 tsp salt directly and then reducing the soy if I needed more salt removed ….
