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Stir-fried pork and lotus root with black pepper and sweet and sour sauce
emointhekitchen A lotus root with a crispy texture and a cute appearance when sliced. It is a vegetable that can be used in various dishes such as salads, stir-fried foods. You can eat lotus root infinitely. Easy to make! Sprinkle the pork with potato starch in a plastic bag, fry the meat and lotus root in a frying pan, and add the seasoning. It is a transcendentally dangerous dish. If spicy food is okay, sprinkle a lot and it will be delicious. You will need: Pork (thin slices) – It was 300g per pack; (Chicken, tofu …) Lotus root – About 15 cm to 20 cm Salt and pepper potato…
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Roasted Duck with Red Cabbage & Liver Dumplings
emointhekitchen The flagship menu prepared could certainly be, for example, a roast duck with cabbage and dumplings, and the festive Sunday lunch would probably be preceded by beef broth with liver dumplings. Now let’s break down both dishes ‘in Chinese” Roasted Duck with Red Cabbage By roasting, the originally neutral duck gets a plus in nature, but the counterweight is cabbage (or with an apple), for which nature does not change much by cooking. Wash the duck, salt it inside and stuff it with apples mixed with onions. Sprinkle with cumin. Pour a glass of water and bake. Bake for 2.5 hours at 175 ° C. This recipe is for…
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Asian mom’s cabbage soup
emointhekitchen There is indeed a mom who loves to cook for their children. Maybe you know your mommy’s recipe. So I now soup. I found it and I will write it as it is. I do not follow this exactly. You will need: Asian cabbage soup: 500 g white cabbage 1-2 carrots 1/2 celery 1 leek 2 onions 300 g peeled tomatoes 1 yellow pepper 1 green pepper 1 hot pepper 1-2 cloves of garlic 1-2 sweet potatoes by size 1 dl of apple cider vinegar (more to taste) 1 bay leaf teaspoon of coriander pepper 1.5 litres of water and 2 cubes of vegetable broth I am freshly coriander…
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Mungo Beans Hangover Soup
emointhekitchen In China and Japan, this simple yet tasty soup is very popular and from time to time can be useful to everyone. Not only as a hangover remedy but it is also suitable for skin cleansing in case of acne or different types of rashes. Since this soup has cooling properties fits well into very hot summer days. You will need: 1/2 cup of dry mung beans, rinsed 1 tablespoon of pre-cut seaweed wakame 4 cups of water soy sauce with reduced sodium content according to taste or light miso paste Preparation: Mix beans, seaweed and water in a medium-sized pot. Bring to a boil, pull the flame and…
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The Ancient Art of Tea: Wisdom From the Old Chinese Tea Masters by Warren Peltier
emointhekitchen I recently received this book with the subtitle Discover Happiness and Contentment in a Perfect Cup of Tea as a gift to my Kindle digital library. Given that books about tea are numerous and many of them passed through my hands, I thought that nothing can surprise me anymore. However, this thin book convinced me that this is not so. As an avid tea drinker and lover of Japanese culture, I have been studying the Urasenke-style Japanese tea ceremony. I have read a huge amount of literature on Japanese tea and customs but I have overlooked the original tea culture of ancient China, for which I am somewhat ashamed…
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Congee – Health, Comfort & Simplicity
emointhekitchen All over Asia, rice is not just a foodstuff but it has also its fixed place in religious symbolism and rituals, festivals, weddings etc. Rice is perceived as a gift of the gods and a meal without rice is not considered a full meal. Rice is not considered to be just an ingredient or a side dish. There are various one-dish meals of rice soup or porridge cooked with plenty of water or broth (roughly 6 cups of water per 1 cup of rice), called congee. Congee or in mandarin zhōu (jook in Cantonese) is proof that some of the best-tasting things in life are at the same time the…
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Light Chinese Daikon Soup
emointhekitchen The old Chinese proverb says, “As soon as farmers bring the daikon to the market, doctors are losing their jobs.” You will need: 1 small daikon radish a small piece of grated ginger approximately one tablespoon of dried tangerine peel three-quarters of a litre of water or vegetable stock salt, spring onion, coriander, parsley, pepper, sesame oil, rice vinegar Procedure: Cut daikon into cubes, and together with ginger and tangerine peel put into the pot. Sauté the mixture in a drop of sesame oil and then pour it over with water or with a broth. Cover with a lid and cook for about 30 minutes until the radish becomes…
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Goji Berry (Wolfberries)
emointhekitchen In the Tang Dynasty (618 – 907 AD), the use of the plant as a tonic increased after a poet said: “it tastes like sweet dew and promotes longevity with a spoon’s chew.” In the Song Dynasty (960 – 1279 AD), commoners made it a tribute food and they sent it to the Imperial Court frequently. In China circulates some short funny stories about goji: “The simple traveller walked through the village of Si-che when his attention was caught by a special scene. A twenty-one-year-old girl was beating an old grey man with a stick. The wanderer wanted to stand up for him because he thought he was about 80 years old. So he asked…
