Chinese Foods Recipes

1/4 celery, 1 big onion, 2 tomatos, 3 tbsp peanut oil, 150 gr fresh or dried mushrooms, 300 gr deboned & sliced chicken breast, salt & pepper, 2 cups chicken stock, 1 tsp cornflour, 1 tbsp water, 1 cup soja sauce.

Dice all vegetables and stirfry with mushrooms in wok with oil until limp, remove vegetables & keep warm, stirfry chicken in wok remove and keep warm add salt & pepper, add bouillon to wok heat up, add water and soja sauce with corn flour, let it simmer for a minute. add meat and vegetables heat up and serve.

Note: Serve with rice.

1.5kg roasting chicken, Sauce: 1 onion, 2 gloves garlic & 1 tablespoon all roughly chopped, 4 red chillies, 6 tablespoons roasted peanuts or peanutpast, 1 tablespoon sugar, 2 tablespoons fish sauce, 1 teaspoon shrimp paste, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, 1 cup coconut milk.

Place chicken on rack in a backingdish and roast at 180?C ( 350?F ) until tender ( 1 1/2 - 2 hours ). Prepare sauce ingredients during last 15 minutes of cooking. In a food processor or a motar, make a paste from onion, garlic, lemon grass, chillies, peanuts, pepper, sugar, fish sauce and shrimp paste. Fry paste in vegetable oil, in large saucepan, then add coconut milk. Stir well and let simmer for 5 minutes until sauce thickens.Place chicken in sauce pan, cover with sauce and let simmer 3 minutes, but carefull not to break up the chicken.. Place on serving plate cover with more sauce and garnish with chilli rings and coreander springs.

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Pastry: 2 cups all purpose flour 1/3 cup lard 1/3 cup butter 4 tablespoons hot water, or as needed Custard Filling: 2 eggs, room temperature 1 1/2 cups whole milk 4 ounces sugar (castor or superfine if possible) yellow food coloring (optional)

Preparations: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit and grease the tart pans. Cut the lard. Use a sifter to sift the flour into a large bowl. Work the lard and butter into the flour with the tips of your fingers, until the mixture has the appearance of coarse breadcrumbs. Continue kneading, adding the hot water. Roll the dough into a large ball, cover with wax paper and refrigerate while preparing the custard filling. Lightly beat the eggs, taking care not to produce any air bubbles. Stir in the milk and the sugar. Add the yellow food color if using. On a large, lightly floured surface, roll out the dough until it is very thin (about 1/8-inch or 3 to 4 mm thick). Cut the dough in half before rolling out if needed. Use a pastry cutter to cut out 18 circles that are 3-inches in diameter. Fit the circles into the tart shells. Pour the filling into the shells. Bake until the custard is cooked and a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean (about 35 minute). Cool

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