Mango Cake Recipe
Ingredients Cake 4 large eggs 1 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup vegetable oil 1/2 cup honey 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 2 cups diced fresh mango (from 1 mango) 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans 1/2 cup golden raisins 1 tablespoon orange zest (from 1 orange) 2 teaspoons lime zest (from 2 limes) Topping 1/2 cup sifted powdered sugar 1 teaspoon orange zest plus 1⁄4 cup fresh juice (from 1 orange) 1/2 teaspoon lime zest plus 2 tsp. fresh juice (from 1 lime) Directions · ...
Sweet and Sour Ribs
Sweet and sour ribs is a classic Shanghainese appetizer that will be the highlight of your dinner table. The ribs are browned with sugar until crispy and caramelized, then finished up in a sticky and fragrant sweet and sour sauce. What is sweet and sour ribs Sweet and sour ribs (tang cu xiao pai) is a famous dish from Shanghai cuisine. The small pork ribs are fried until golden crispy, then coated with a thin layer of sticky sweet and sour sauce. The ribs have a special chewy texture and a crunchy caramelized surface, and they’re bursting with flavor. The...
Beijing Fried Sauce Noodles
These saucy noodles are quintessential Beijing street food, a popular dinner dish that has lines for weeks. With just a few ingredients, this simple recipe is packed with authentic flavor and ready in 30 minutes. Beijing fried sauce noodles are made by cooking the sauce and mixing it into plain white noodles that are boiled separately. The dish is garnished with a big dollop of sliced cucumber, for a crunchy saucy noodle when it’s all mixed together. The sauce is the best part, and you can eat it with rice too if you like rice better! This dish is also a fast...
Pork dumpling with cabbage
Tasty and juicy filling wrapped with pleasantly chewy skin, Chinese pork dumpling with Napa cabbage is an absolute classic! This recipe includes make-from-scratch instructions. It’s safe to say that boiled dumplings with pork and Napa cabbage filling are the most popular variety in Northern China where dumplings are a common dinner option. I absolutely love the clean taste of this type of dumplings. With a simple dipping sauce, they make a tasty & healthy all-in-one meal. A tasty & juicy filling Here is a list of ingredients that you need to make the pork and cabbage filling Minced pork....
What Are Soup Dumplings
Soup Dumplings, or soup dumplings, are a type of steamed dumpling from Shanghai cuisine (Jiangsu province for the greater region). In China, you will find there are many versions of soup dumplings that come in different flavors and sizes, but the most popular one is Xiao Long Bao. It features a paper thin wrapper filled with a very mild pork filling and a pocket of fragrant soup, served with a gingery vinegar dipping sauce. Soup Dumplings is a type of dim sum that is traditionally enjoyed as a snack or during a meal as an appetizer or even a main...
Beijing Duck Recipe, and How to Eat It
Beijing duck is also known as Beijing roast duck. It is Beijing's best and most famous dish. With a legendary taste and dining experience, not only tourists but also high-ranking government leaders make it a point to eat Beijing duck in Beijing. Why is Beijing Duck Famous? Beijing duck is called "the first dish to taste in China”. It has a long history: it used to be a royal dish in medieval China and gradually spread to civil society later. Beijing duck was appointed as one of the national dishes for the reception of foreign guests by Premier Zhou Enlai...
spicy beancurd
Bean curd gets a delicious kick of spicy flavor in this dish. Serve it over rice for a delicious weeknight meal. Authentic Szechuan seasonings and spices add amazing flavor to this dish. You can simply reduce the amount of chili peppers to reduce the spice level. What Is Szechuan Style Bean Curd? Szechuan cuisine is known for its spicy dishes. Szechuan style bean curd is flavored with traditional Szechuan spices like Thai bird chili peppers, dried red chilis, and Sichuan peppercorns. This dish also includes ground pork and additional seasonings. It’s delicious served on rice. Ingredients You’ll Need silken tofu...
Stir Fried Vermicelli with Pork
Ma Yi Shang Shu, or stir fried vermicelli with pork, is a perfect quick weekday dinner dish that is so flavorful yet easy to put together. A Sichuan classic, it features tender mung bean vermicelli noodles braised in a savory aromatic sauce with ground pork, spiced up with chili bean paste. All you need is 20 minutes to put it together – top it on a bowl of steamed rice for a great dinner! Some Chinese dishes have the weirdest names. Such as Husband and Wife Lung Slices (Fu Qi Fei Pian), Saliva Chicken (Chicken in Red Oil), and this...
Spicy Numbing Stir-fry Pot
Ma la xiang guo is definitely a “newer” dish. It doesn’t have hundreds of years of history, but I can tell you, this dish is a legend in the making. Ma la xiang guo is very heavily spiced, but not just by chilies alone. There are tons of spices added, that until now were mostly a delicious delicious mystery to us. Living in Beijing, we couldn’t get enough of this dish––spicy food lovers will rejoice when they taste it! I recently made this dish (minus the fish balls) for a vegan friend, he said that this is the best dish...
Numbing Sichuan-Style Hot Pot
Traditionally, Sichuan hot pot is made with caiziyou (roasted rapeseed oil), which imparts a lovely vegetal, toasty aroma. If you can't find it, you can substitute with peanut oil or another vegetable oil. Though I recommend using dried Sichuan chiles such as chaotian (often called "facing heaven" in English) or er jing tiao for their unparalleled fragrance, they are also more difficult to find in the U.S. The tianjin, or tien tsin, pepper is much more common at Chinese or Asian supermarkets in the U.S. and can definitely do the trick, but in my experience, they are not quite as...