Crispy Fish in Chilli Sauce

Recipe serves 4

Ingredients

500g fish fillets

1 cup plain flour

½ cup cornflour

¾ cup water

1 egg white

Oil for deep frying

Sauce

1 tbsp oil

1 tbsp grated green ginger

3 cloves garlic

¼ cup tomato sauce

¼ cup chilli sauce

2 tsps sugar

1 tbsp soy sauce

2 tsps dry sherry

2 tbsps water

Method

For sauce

• Place oil, grated green ginger, tomato sauce, chilli sauce, crushed garlic together in a pan. Stir in medium heat for 1 minute. Mix in the other ingredients. Stir well. Set aside

• Separate fish from bones using a sharp knife. Remove any bones and cut the flesh into 1 inch cubes.

• Sift flour and cornflour together in a mixing bowl. Add in egg white and water. Beat well to form a smooth batter.

• Heat oil in pan for deep frying. Dip fish pieces in batter to coat completely. Drain excess batter from fish and lower fish pieces into hot oil carefully. Cook for 5 minutes or until golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper.

• Place chilli sauce in a wok. Add in fried fish pieces and toss over high heat until fish is coated with sauce. Heat through. Serve hot.

Fried Pork and Prawn Dumplings (Gow Gee)

A very famous Chinese cuisine recipe. The Fried Dumplings can often be found in mostly any Chinese restaurants. Crispy skin with a tender fillings of mixed prawns and pork. 

Ingredients

250g wonton wrappers

250g minced pork

125g prawns (minced)

60g dried mushrooms

½ x 230g can bamboo shoots

6 shallots

1 tsp grated green ginger

1 clove garlic

2 tsps sesame oil

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 tbsp dry sherry

Oil for deep frying

Sweet Sour Sauce

½ cup water

½ cup white vinegar

¾ cup water

2 tbsps tomato paste

1 tbsp tomato sauce

1 tbsp cornflour

¼ cup water

For Sauce

• Mix  water, vinegar, tomato paste, tomato sauce and water into pan. Stirfry over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Next, mix cornflour with water to create a smooth paste. Add into pan. Stir over medium heat until sauce thickens and boil. Simmer 1 minute

 Method

• Use 8cm round cutter to cut wonton wrappers into circle shape.

• Put mushrooms into boiling water for 30 minutes in a small bowl. Drain and chop mushrooms into small pieces. Mix mushroom with pork, prawns, finely chopped bamboo shoots, ginger, crushed garlic, soy sauce, sherry and sesame oil together.

• Put a tablespoonful of mixture on the wonton wrappers. Brush edges with water and fold into half. Pinch edges to stick.

• Heat oil in pan for deep frying. Put wrapped wontons into hot oil and fry until golden brown. Remove and drain on absorbent paper.

• Serve with sweet sour sauce.

How to Use Chopsticks Guide

Chopsticks are a pair of equal length sticks commonly made from plastic, bamboo, wood, ivory or metal that are used in the Asian countries. A majority of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Laos and Myanmar use chopsticks. Chopsticks are used by these communities as compared to eating utensils such as fork, spoon and knife by the westerners. Chopsticks are originated from the ancient dynasties of China and were being spread to other countries.

You can normally find chopsticks in the Chinese, Japanese and Korean cuisine restaurants. If you are wondering how to use chopsticks, the following step by step will guide you through. 

1. Hold a chopstick between your thumb and middle finger.

2. Place the other chopstick between the tip of your thumb and forefinger.

3. Make both of the chopsticks parallel in a straight line.

4. Make sure the first chopstick is stationary. Only move the second chopstick toward the first one using the tip of your forefinger. Try moving it up and down.

5. Once you are familiar. Try using the chopsticks on food or any small items.  

The next time you are in an Asian restaurant, you can be showing off your skills to your friends. There will no longer be any need to ask for a fork and spoon. You can enjoy the delicious Chinese Fried Noodle recipe or Sushi dish without any problems. It is the most appropriate to eat according to different cultures.

Try out our Chinese recipes or Japanese cuisines and learn using chopsticks on these delicious dishes.

Ham Balls

A very nice and tasty Ham Balls recipe here.

Ingredients

2 large chicken breasts

300g leg ham

25g dried mushrooms

200g can bamboo shoots

250g can water Chestnuts

2 tbsps dry sherry

3 tsps soy sauce

½ tsp sesame oil

1tbsp cornflour

3 tbsp oil

¼ tsp salt

Cornflour

Oil for deep fry

Batter

½ cup cornflour

½ cup plain flour

½ tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

¾ cup cold water

1 egg white

Method

• Leave mushrooms in cold water covered overnight. Remove skins and bones from chicken breasts. Drain water from mushrooms, bamboo shoots and water chestnuts. Mix together chicken, ham, bamboo shoots, mushrooms and water chestnuts and chop finely.

• Heat 3 tablespoons of oil in pan. Add chopped ingredients and toss over high heat for 3 minutes. Add sherry, soy sauce, cornflour, sesame oil and salt. Toss 2 minutes. Remove from pan and set aside.

• For batter. Sift dry ingredients into a bowl. Add water slowly and while mixing to form a batter. Beat egg white until soft peak form. Fold into batter.

• Create tablespoonfuls of cooked mixture into balls with hand. Coat lightly with cornflour.

• Heat oil in pan for deep frying. Place balls into batter. Remove ball and drain slightly. Place into deep hot oil and fry till golden brown. Remove and drain on kitchen tissue. Repeat for the remaining balls. Serve hot.

About Chinese Cuisine

Chinese cuisine is a very prominent food cuisine served in every part of the world. Chinese cuisine has a long history spanning from the ancient Chinese empires. Due to the historical immigrant of Chinese populations to ever parts of the world, traditional original Chinese food recipe from China has currently evolved from the original taste. Often time Chinese recipes are being localize and blended to adept and cater for the local taste.  Chinese dishes served in different parts of the world will be distinctive and differ significantly in flavour due to this factor. Often times, the term such as American Chinese recipe, Canadian Chinese recipe, Indian Chinese recipe, Malaysian Chinese recipe are used to describe the localized Chinese cuisine.

Rice is the main source of food for Chinese. Steam rice is a necessity form of dish in the Chinese cuisine culture. Every other different dish such as poultry, pork, fish, vegetable and soups variants are mainly used as a supplement and serve together with rice. Noodles are another form of main Chinese food source next to rice. Noodles comes in different forms of texture, sizes and shapes of noodles can be found such as such as Hokkien noodles, vermicelli, rice sticks and rice noodles.

The Chinese cuisine preparation method can be divided into few main methods such as stir-fry, deep-frying, steaming, red stewing, boiling, deep frying, shallow frying, barbecuing, roasting, cold mixing and finally poaching. Each and every cooking method preparation creates a unique distinctive taste, flavour and texture for the ingredients used.

Popular Chinese dishes such as Fried Rice, Fried Noodles (Chow-mien), Peking Duck, Roast pork (Char siew), Roast duck, spring rolls, fried Chinese dumpling (Jiaozi), Chicken soup, steamed barbecued pork buns (Char Siew Bao) are a common name found in the Chinese food menu list.

Dim Sum is a term used for small servings of dishes served in wooden baskets and often steamed. Dim Sum is often served as a breakfast or lunch for the Chinese community. Popular top dim sum includes the Siew Mai, Har Gau, Char Siew Pau, Chee Cheong Fun, Spring Rolls and the list goes on. Dim sum is a very well accepted Chinese cuisine around the world.