Tag: Chinese
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Chinese Fried Cabbage Recipe – Simple and Delicious
The first time I made this cabbage I ended up eating almost the entire thing myself, it’s that good! I like to serve this as a side with a Chinese stir-fried omelette for a simple Sunday supper but it goes well with tofu dishes or any Asian style protein. Make sure you don’t mince the…
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Chinese Stir Fried Omelette with Sweet and Sour Drizzle Sauce
I love this simple, free form Chinese omelette. It is brilliant as an emergency dinner (served by itself with some rice and greens) or as part of a larger meal. One important tip is make sure you use enough oil and that it is hot (but not too hot) when you pour the egg in,…
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Nostalgic Comfort: Braised Cantonese Style Tofu Recipe
When I was a kid Chinese food was the one exotic eating option in rural Australia. For my eighth birthday dinner, I chose the standard family celebration dinner, roast chicken with pavlova for dessert. My best friend came for dinner and brought an exotic offering, a container of fried rice, from the Chinese restaurant that…
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Peng’s Home-Style Tofu Recipe | Hunanese Cuisine | Chinese Vegan Dish
This is another recipe from one of Fuchsia Dunlop’s wonderful scholarly cookbooks on Chinese food – The Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook. This book concentrates on the food of the Hunan province, which was Mao Zedong’s home province, so it is this style of cooking that features in many Chairman Mao’s favorite dishes. During the ‘great…
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Chinese stir-fried omelette with spring onions, carrots and bean sprouts
I know that in the final countdown to Christmas, I should be posting more festive food – ideas for vegetarian Christmases and all that kind of stuff but we are flying across the country to Perth on Christmas day (just in time for lunch), so apart from baking up a storm of cookies, I’m really…
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Braised tofu with shitake mushrooms, tomatoes and peas
This is one of my favourite comfort food dishes. It’s the combination of rice and peas, like the Italian risi e bisi, that I find particularly irresistible. There is something very cleansing about this dish, which really allows the silken tofu to shine. The recipe comes from Kylie Kwong’s Simple Chinese Food – the original…
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Authentic Vegetarian Dan Dan Noodles Recipe
Dan dan noodles are traditionally made with pork or beef mince and drenched in the incredibly spicy Sichaun chilli oil. This vegetarian version uses ground tofu and shitake mushroom in place of the meat. The version I actually make is a little ‘dumbed down’, because I leave out the Sichuan chilli oil. My one and…
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Healing Rice Broth: How to Make Vegetarian Congee for Illness
I spent almost the entire Australia day long weekend in bed with some kind of undiagnosed ’flu/virus/headache ailment. Although I did manage to get up and watch the first set of the men’s final of the Australian Open on Sunday night before collapsing back into bed, I spent the weekend with that sense of boredom…
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Vegan Mapo Tofu Recipe
There’s nothing worse for a vegetarian to be in a Chinese restaurant and see a luscious platter of mapo tofu being taken to another table and then when you try and order it, you’re told it isn’t actually a vegetarian dish. All that glorious tofu and they have to ruin it by throwing in a…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 