I used to go for dim sum at a wonderful asian restaurant, and would buy about three of these small bamboo steamers packed full of this unbelievable flavorful rice. I went home experimented and figured out the recipe. Absolutly delicious, and is the closest thing to authentic chinese home cooking I have eaten to date. (You need a Large Bamboo steamer for this recipe)
A soy-free version of the Chinese Sticky Rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves, known as Joong, or Zhongzi that are traditionally eaten in late Spring for the Dragonboat Festival. You can buy them at Asian supermarkets (like T&T here), and my husband’s family makes them, but they all have ingredients my son can’t have. Usually these have dried shrimp or scallop, mushrooms, nuts, soy sauce, 5-spice powder, chinese sausage and egg, but yummy as they are, these all make my son itchy, so I improvised! Special thanks to W.K. Leung for his pictorial description here: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=88644 You may want to see the pictures of the various packages he uses. If you don’t need to avoid all those ingredients, you’ll probably want to follow his recipe, as this one is a little bland (shhh, don’t tell my son…) Wrapping the dumplings is tricky – I had to watch a few different videos, and even then, my first one took about 20 minutes! Eventually I figured it out. My best ones ended up as somewhat rectangular pyramids, rather than the tetrahedrons I usually see. This is a fairly time-consuming project, most families make it a group activity! Preparation time below is for one person doing it all herself for the first time, with a little “help” from my little man, and does not include overnight soaking time.
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In New York City’s Chinatown restaurants, you can order dishes of fish, meat or other foods on/over white rice and a meal for one person. However, this recipe will serve two or more… This sliced beef with black beans, Chinese broccoli and with white rice is “My take” on this easy-to-make and tasty beef dish.
This delicious fried rice is a nice change of pace for leftover meat and veggies. It’s good made with your choice of ham, pork, or grilled chicken. I like to put the rice together early in the day then simply reheat it at suppertime. It’s already-tasty flavor seems to only improve with time!
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