Nucha's Chinese Food Recipes

Seaweed and Shitake soup

Ingredients:


100 gm. Chicken breast (cut to very small pieces)
1  Big Onions, cut to quarters
1/2 cup Fresh Shitake, cut to strips
1/2 cup Straw and/or Oyster Mushroom
1/2 cup Seaweed strips
2 tablespoons Light Soy Sauce
Some Salt, Pepper, and Sugar (to taste)
3/4 litre  Water


Instructions:


Put water in a soup pot. Add chicken and onion. Bring to 
boil. 

When the chicken is cooked and tender, add mushrooms (not 
shitake yet) and soy sauce. Continue simmering in medium
heat for 10 minutes.

Add shitake. Simmer for a few minutes. Add seaweed. Stir.
Turn off heat. Add salt, pepper and sugar if needed. Leave 
to simmer for 5-10 more minutes.


Serve as soup (cook it lighter), or with rice (could be 
more salty).


For vegetarians, omit chicken and add more straw mushrooms.


Note: If you cannot find fresh shitake, you can use dried
shitake instead. Before cooking, soak it in water for 30
minutes. Then squeeze the water out, remove stems, and
cut the umbrella part to strips. Now it's ready to cook.

 

Fake Shark Fin's Soup

Okay, shark is endangered. Don't eat shark. We can 
substitute the shark fin with glass noodle.


Here're the ingredients... for ONE.

1 small pack of glass noodle
2 cup chicken or pork broth
1/2 cup oyster mushrooms
1/4 cup shitake mushrooms without stems 
(if dried, soak them in water for 20 minutes)
1 teaspoon black soy sauce (Chinese)
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon seasoning sauce
Some white pepper
2 tablespoon corn starch in 1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon coriander leaves, cut to smaller peices
Some water
Some crab meat (optional)


And here's how...


Put broth to boil. Add noodle, mushrooms and sauces. Bring
to boil. 

When boil, put to low heat and slowly add in the corn
starch in water. Keep stirring. Until it look like what 
you've had in a restaurant. If too thick, add water.

Pour into bowl. Top with crab meat, coriander leaves and 
pepper. Ready to serve.

 

Prawn Fruit Salad

(Um.. not sure if it is Chinese food but I got to eat it first tie in a Chinese Restaurant.)

Ingredients:

400 gm. small prawns or large shrimp
1 apple, diced to bite size
1 cup melon, scooped to bite size
6 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons skimmed milk
4 cups frying oil

For marinade

1 tablespoon white wine
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 egg (white? How's it called? The part which is not yolk)
1/2 teaspoon spring onion, chopped
1 teaspoon ginger, chopped
1 tablespoon corn starch


Instruction:

1. Peel the prawns, also remove the tails and de-vein. Mix
them with salt and wash in cold water. Drain. Set aside.

2. Marinate in the mixture of marinade ingredients for 15
minutes. Put mixture in refrigerator.

3. Prepare apple and melon. Set aside.

4. Mix milk and mayonnaise. Set aside.

5. Heat oil in pan. 

6. One by one, dip the marinated prawn in corn starch, and
fry until golden brown. Not to golden, just yellow :-)

7. Mix hot fried shrimp with salad mix in 4.

8. Mix in fruits. Serve on plate decorated with red apple or
strawberries.

 

Sweet and Sour shrimp with fruits and vegetable


How to:

Just fry the shrimps as directed above (third recipe), and
set aside. Heat a little oil in another pan and fry some 
chopped onions. When cooked add red, green yellow bell pepper
(julienne), pineapple (diced), and tomato. You can put diced 
apples as well.

Put sweet and sour sauce, light soy sauce, and water (if too 
dry). Add corn starch (diluted in water) to thicken the 
sauce. Pour the sauce on the fried shrimps.