Preparing Traditional Chinese Food Recipes

The delectable and traditional Chinese food recipes have been the benchmark of excellence in the culinary field. They are the product of an imaginative mind and greatly noted for their distinctive taste as well as being extremely nutritious.

The traditional Chinese cuisine is a desired balance maintained between the 'Yin' foods, which refer to vegetables and fruits, and the 'Yang' foods, which comprises of different types of meat. This balance is very necessary to ward off most illness and offer healthy benefits.

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There are also many cooking methods, such as boiling, roasting, steaming, poaching, stir-frying, braising, smoking, and baking, involve the use of very little oil or no ill, thus are suitable for a health diet.

Preparing Traditional Chinese Food Recipes

Chinese cooking is actually easy to learn with the right knowledge and recipes, and it is also a great addition to include to any family's homemade meals.

You can easily find Chinese recipes online through recipe websites or forums, but finding the traditional ones can be tricky, because most of the recipes are not in their traditional style and have been modified to make them more easily and quickly to cook. If you search recipes online, try to figure out whether this site is dedicated to traditional Chinese recipes only and make sure you are getting traditional ones.

Another thing you should remember is that have your ingredients purchased ahead of time, check out your local markets, or visit any Asian stores to see what is available in your area. In fact, this can save you a lot of frustration ahead of time in trying to cooking any new dishes.

When you get ready to prepare your recipe, make certain that you have read the entire recipe ahead of time. Some ingredients actually require hours to prepare properly, meanwhile, have the vegetables prepared before cooking, know your time frame for preparing the cook, and make sure you fully understand the cooking methods before beginning.

Preparing Traditional Chinese Food Recipes

Find traditional Chinese recipes, and cooking tips on http://www.homechineserecipes.com/traditional/ to experience the flavor of the rich Chinese cuisine.

Hao Luo is the author of Chinese Food Recipes, an online traditional Chinese recipes and cooking website offering plenty of free Traditional Chinese recipes with pictures and cooking tips.

Traditional Chinese Food - Eight-Treasures Rice For the Chinese New Year

Eight-Treasures Rice (Babaofan) is traditionally served on the 7th day of the 1st month of the Chinese Lunar Calendar. This marks the end of the Spring Festival (or Chinese New Year).

This pudding is made from sticky or glutinous rice flavoured with 8 luxurious fruits:

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• red jujubes (Chinese dates);
• finely chopped red plums;
• finely chopped green plums;
• dried longan pulp;
• gingko nuts;
• lotus seeds;
• lily seeds; and
• seeds from Job's Tears (sometimes known as Chinese Pearl Barley).

Traditional Chinese Food - Eight-Treasures Rice For the Chinese New Year

Nowadays, you may find some of these items replaced with walnuts, peanuts, raisins, cherries and the like. These are often cheaper and easier to obtain. However, the original recipe has a distinct colour, fragrance and taste so see if you can get an authentic version if you can, even if that means paying a little extra to eat somewhere nice.

Many of the fruits were selected and are prepared to look like jewels. The name however may not originally come from the appearance. See the story below for the alternate explanation.

Babaofan forms a special part of the Spring Festival banquet, often enhanced by a tradition of melting brown sugar over the top with burning alcohol. This tradition is meant to date back to ancient times and evidence from Hunan Province suggests that the dish at least has been around for over 2000 years.

The story tells us that a despotic king, King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty was removed by Eight Scholars (the Eight Treasures) recruited by his neighbour, King Wen of the Western Zhou Dynasty. These scholars apparently burned King Zhou to death and both their number and their method were incorporated by the imperial chefs when they invented this dish.

The Spring Festival is not a good time for visiting China. The festival is very much a family affair and visitors without local friends may well feel left out. Almost every Chinese will try to get home during the period meaning that travel services are swamped, and other services may be limited.

There's no need to worry. You can find Eight-Treasures Rice at most good restaurants throughout the year. The dish is also popular at weddings and, if you are lucky enough to get an invite, then you could well be served this along with lots of other traditional Chinese foods.

Traditional Chinese Food - Eight-Treasures Rice For the Chinese New Year

Ian Ford has lived in China for most of the last 10 years. He is the owner and manager of China Journeys, a UK tour operator offering travel in China with added interest (Registered in England and Wales No. 07014791, ATOL 10236)

Traditional Chinese Food - Chow Mein

Noodles are very popular in China. Chow mein is one of famous Chinese food in the world. It is easy to cook and you can cook it in many methods. In this article, I would like to offer you two of them.

The first method is shown as below:

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Ingredients:

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Chinese noodles, egg, shredded meat, baby bok choy, green onion sections, chives, MSG, dark soy sauce

Cooking procedure:

1: Put the noodles into the pot with boiling water and boil it for several minutes. Then remove and rinse under cold water; Tips: add a little salt and salad oil when boiling so that the noodles cannot stick with each other easily.

2: Heat the pot, pour some oil and spread it in the bottom of Pot. Add egg, then remove it from the pot when it is done.

3: Add green onion sections, baby bok choy, chives, shredded meat and stir fry them together. Then put into the boiled noodles and stir fry them together for a short time.

4: Then use the chopsticks (if possible) to separate the noodles. Add the cooked egg, onion, and stir fry them for a several minutes. It is done.

Next, I like to introduce you another method:

Ingredients:

Chinese noodles, onion, mushroom, hammer, bacon, cabbage, dry chilies, chilies sauce, soy sauce, egg, caraway

Cooking procedure:

1. Cut all the ingredients into small pieces, and finger-joint size is preferred.

2. Boil the noodles, then remove and rinse under cold water.

3. Pour some salad oil into the pot; add the onion pieces into it until they become golden. Add the mushrooms.

4. When the mushrooms begin to shrink, add hammer and bacon pieces. Stir fry them for a while, then add the cabbage.

5. When the water comes out of cabbage, stir them for several times. If you think that the oil is not sufficient; you can add some oil again to prevent everything from sticking on the pot.

6. Add the noodles and dry chilies or chili sauce into them.

7. Add salt, soy sauce, at the same time please always stir the noodles.

8. Pour the egg liquid into the pot and it will stick with noodles, and then stir them frequently. This dish is done. Pouring some diced chives onto them is preferred.

There are still many other methods to cook chow mein. Please note that you should always prevent the noodles from sticking with the pot.

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Traditional Chinese Food - Chow Mein

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