| Chinese food is a great way to expand your personal | | | | where it’s often marked as a “chef’s |
| recipe book, especially if you love to use simple, fresh | | | | specialty”. General Tso's Chicken recipe commonly |
| ingredients with quick cooking time. These top ten | | | | involves battered chicken deep-fried and marinated |
| dishes are famous all over the world, and are | | | | with hot chili peppers, scallions, sugar, Shaoxing wine, |
| must-haves in your collection of Chinese food recipes. | | | | sesame oil, soy sauce, rice vinegar, garlic and ginger. |
| Fried Rice - A must have dish in Chinese restaurants, | | | | Egg Rolls - Egg rolls are one of the most popular |
| fried rice is the ultimate Chinese food, and can be one | | | | Chinese foods, and for good reason. This savory roll is |
| of the most flexible in your cookbook because you | | | | made by wrapping a combination of chopped |
| can use leftover rice and ingredients to make it. Of | | | | cabbage and meats and sometimes noodles in a |
| course, you can use fresh ingredients but it’s best | | | | sheet of dough. It is then dipped in egg and deep fried |
| to use rice that has been kept in the fridge overnight | | | | to perfection. Egg rolls are generally bigger in size |
| for best results. Ingredients usually involved in making | | | | than its cousin spring roll, its skin is thicker and crunchier; |
| fried rice are eggs, scallions, diced meat of either beef, | | | | and have more filling. |
| chicken or pork, ham, shrimps and vegetables such as | | | | Fortune Cookies - Chinese cooking would simply not |
| celery, peas, carrots, bean sprouts and corn. There are | | | | be complete without the addition of a recipe for |
| many varieties of fried rice but the more popular ones | | | | fortune cookies. The ingrediesnts you need to make |
| are the Yangchow and Fujian fried rice. | | | | these treats are some sugar, flour, eggs and vanilla |
| Kung Pao Chicken - Kung Pao chicken or Kung Po | | | | extract, making them a simple way to add some fun |
| chicken is a Chinese dish from Szechuan cuisine and is | | | | to your home cooked Chinese food. |
| considered to be a delicacy. The recipe for this mouth | | | | Orange Chicken - This appetizing Chinese dish is |
| watering dish commonly calls for diced chicken that is | | | | made of chicken chopped into bite size pieces and |
| pre-seasoned and quickly stir-fried with unsalted | | | | battered, and then fried with thick sweet and spicy chili |
| roasted peanuts, red bell peppers, rice wine or sherry, | | | | sauce flavored with orange. The traditionally Chinese |
| hoisin sauce, sesame oil, oyster sauce, and chili | | | | recipe for orange peel chicken as it’s sometimes |
| peppers. Alternatively, you can use prawn, scallops, | | | | called, is to deep fry the chicken first and then stir fry it |
| beef or pork in place of the chicken. | | | | in a lightly sweet soy-based sauce flavored with dried |
| Moo Shu Pork - This is a dish of northern Chinese | | | | orange peels. Vegetables like baby carrots and bok |
| origin and a favorite of many. Ingredients in a Mu Xu | | | | choy are used as the garnishing. However, cooks in |
| pork recipe often include green cabbage, wood ear | | | | Western restaurants do not use dried orange peel but |
| mushrooms, scrambled eggs, carrots, bean sprouts, | | | | rather orange juice or fresh orange peel and a |
| day lily buds and scallions. Celery, onions, bell peppers, | | | | substantial amount of sugar to make the sauce. Chili |
| snow pea pods, bok choy and Shiitake mushrooms | | | | peppers and steamed broccoli are used as garnishing |
| are occasionally used. The vegetables are cut into long | | | | instead. |
| and thin strips before cooking, with the exception for | | | | Sweet and Sour Pork - This savory-sweet famous |
| bean sprouts and day lily buds. Fried Mu Xu pork is | | | | Chinese dish is of Cantonese origin. It is a good dish to |
| then wrapped in moo shu pancakes that is brushed | | | | prepare when you are planning on having guests, who |
| with hoisin sauce and eaten by hand. Moo shu | | | | will be wildly impressed with your cooking skill. As with |
| pancakes are thin wrappers made of flour that is | | | | other Chinese food recipes, the key to making a great |
| easily available in supermarkets and steamed just | | | | Sweet and Sour Pork dish is in the sauce made of |
| before eating. | | | | sugar, ketchup, white vinegar, and soy sauce. Its |
| General Tso’s Chicken - General Tso's chicken is a | | | | ingredients include pork, onion, bell pepper and pineapple |
| Hunan dish that tastes spicy and sweet and very | | | | chopped into bite size pieces. |
| popular in Chinese restaurants in America and Canada | | | | |