Pork with Szechuan sauce

Ingrédients :

  • 320 g of pork
  • 1 tablespoons of sake
  • 1 ½ teaspoons of cornstarch flour
  • 2 teaspoons of salt
  • 5 tablespoons of soy oil
  • 1 large onion
  • 1 box of peas
  • 1 green and red pepper
  • 50 g of pineapple in syrup
  • oil

For the batter:

  • 3 tablespoons of water
  • 2 ½ of flour
  • 2 teaspoons of cornstarch
  • 1 egg beaten

For the sauce:

  • 2 tablespoon of soy sauce
  • 3 ½ tablespoons of rice vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons of sugar
  • 15 cl of water
  • 2 ½ tablespoons of tomato ketchup
  • 1 teaspoon of cornstarch

Préparation :

Cut pork into cubes, the pepper into 2 cm pieces and onion in 2 and 4.

Drain the peas and pineapple and then cut into 2 cm pieces.

In a bowl put salt, rice wine, cornstarch flour, and pork meat then mix and let marinate 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, prepare the sauce and set aside.

Then prepare the batter by mixing all ingredients, then set aside.

Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a wok over high heat.

Put the pork in the batter, stir to coat well then adding them to the wok and lightly brown 3 to 4 minutes on high heat, stirring occasionally. Add onion, peppers, peas and pineapple and stir and let simmer for 2 minutes on medium heat.

Transfer the mixture into a container, put back 2 tablespoons of oil in wok, then add the sauce and cook 3 minutes on medium heat.

Put back the meat and vegetables in the wok, then cook the preparation for 2 minutes and serve hot with white rice.

Tips : You can add carrots or cashews to your taste.

Anecdotes : Beef is more widespread than elsewhere, and is often cooked until it becomes a great tenderness. Sometimes the beef is sprinkled with rice flour before the steaming, to produce a more rich sauce. Sichuan cuisine, known for its tangy and spicy taste, is one of eight major regional cuisines of China, sometimes grouped into four families. It is often compared to the Hunan cuisine or that Hubei, due to proximity culinary, cultural and linguistic these three provinces.

Pork in sweet and sour sauce

Ingrédients :

  • 320 g of slices of pork
  • 100 g of lychees
  • 100 g of onions
  • 100 g of bamboo shoots
  • 10 cl of soybean oil

The marinade :

  • 1 ½ tablespoons of sake
  • 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
  • salt and pepper

Sauce :

  • 1 ½ tablespoons of soy sauce
  • 2 ½ tablespoons of rice vinegar
  • 40 g of sugar
  • 1 ½ tablespoons of sake
  • 16 cl of water
  • 1 ½ tablespoon of tomato paste
  • 1 teaspoon of cornstarch dissolved in a little water

Préparation :

Prepare the marinade then add the meat, mix well and marinate for 10 minutes.
Cut the onion and litchi in small pieces, then the bamboo of julienne.
Prepare the sauce by mixing all the ingredients and set aside.
Heat oil in a wok over high heat, then brown the pork, add the onion and bamboo shoots, stir and cook for 2 minutes covered.
Add lychees, stir and cook for 1 minutes always covered. Transfer to another bowl and set aside.
Pour the sauce into the wok and cook 3 minutes over medium heat, add the meat and the remaining ingredients and mix well so that everything is well blended.
Serve with white rice.

Tips : you can replace the lychee with pineapple.

Anecdotes : The sweet and sour pork is one of 10 dishes representative of Canton, and is very appreciate.
For Cantonese cuisine which is one of the “eight major regional cuisines of China,” sometimes grouped into four major families, is often considered the best in China, even in Asia. Among the regional Chinese cuisines, the Cantonese cuisine is the best known internationally.

Lau bo – Vietnamese fondue

Ingredients :

  • 20 cl of water
  • 20 cl of rice vinegar
  • 600 g of beef tenderloin
  • 200 g of peeled shrimp
  • 150 g of shiitake mushrooms
  • 150 g of bean sprouts
  • 1 package of rice cakes
  • 1 package of rice noodles
  • 1 can of coconut milk
  • 2 carrots
  • 1 can of pineapple
  • 2 onion
  • 1 lime
  • 1 lettuce
  • 10 g of Chinese chives
  • 10 g of parsley
  • 3 tablespoons of sugar
  • 1 teaspoon of salt

Preparation :

Soak noodles 15 minutes in cold water, then drain and set aside. Cut into 4 pieces the rice cakes.

Cut meat into thin slices. Make a small cut on the back of the shrimp and remove the black vein and put aside.

Peel carrots and cut into sticks, chopped parsley, cut the mushrooms and onion in thick slices, then Chinese spring onion of into strips 5 cm and lettuce into strips of 10 cm.

Put the onion slices over the shrimp and the beef for flavoring . The rest of onion be served in to the broth.

Boil water in a saucepan, then put the noodles to cook for 2 minutes, drain. Arrange the noodles on a presentation plate.

In a fondue pot, combine rice vinegar, sugar, salt, coconut juice, water and remaining onion.
Taste and adjust salt, sugar or vinegar, knowing that the broth should be slightly acidic, and slightly salty. If you find that the taste of vinegar is too strong, add a little water.

Drain the pineapple and cut into small pieces and then chop coarsely

Pour the contents of Mam Nem in a bowl, put the pineapple in the sauce, add the lemon juice and mix. Adjust according to your taste.

Put in the middle of the table the hot pot and the dishes containing vegetables, shrimp, meat and noodles (the fondue pot must be heated over medium heat for meal), also a bowl of hot water for soaking rice cakes.

Serve in a bowl mam nem sauce individually and use a plate for to roll the rice cake.

Place ingredients you want into the hot pot and cook for 5 minutes for shrimp, mushrooms and carrots but for beef, spring onions and Chinese vermicelli it only takes a few seconds.

Take a rice cake, soak in the bowl of warm water to rehydrate, then put on the plate, put some noodles, a salad leaf, vegetables and chunks of meat cooked on the rice cake.

Wind the rice cake, being careful not to tear and eat with the mam nem sauce.

Tips : you can replace the mam nem sauce to taste that strong enough for the sauce nuoc mam with a little chopped fresh ginger. For vegetables you can put Chinese cabbage, celery’s, tomatoes or cabbage flower according to your preference.
The Vietnamese keep the rest of soup for eat with rice vermicelli or Chinese noodles or instant noodles.

Rojak – rujak – pasembor


Ingredients :

  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 small pineapple not too mature
  • 3 red or green fresh chili
  • 2 tablespoons of chopped peanut

The sauce:

  • 3 tablespoons of vinegar Chinese
  • 2 tablespoons of sugar
  • 2 teaspoons of Ulek sambal chilli or fresh crushed
  • 2 teaspoons of belacan shrimp paste or dried
  • salt and lemon juice

Preparation :

Peel the cucumber and cut into julienne.
Peel the pineapple, remove core and dice.
Deseed the chili and mince.
Mix the cucumbers, the pineapple and chilis in a bowl and season with salt.

Wrap the belacan in aluminum foil and broil 5 minutes on each side on grill or over hot coals.

Mix the belacan in vinegar, add sugar, pepper, salt and lemon juice to taste. Mix to pineapple and to cucumber.

Sprinkle chopped peanut and serve.

Tips: It can also serve the sauce separately and add 1 teaspoon of tamarind paste and of palm sugar.

Anecdote : In Malaysia and Singapore, the term “Rojak” is used as an expression for talk of an eclectic mix, the word describes the multi-ethnic character of Malaysia and Singapore society. In Indonesia, the Rujak is an essential part of prenatal tradition. The Rujak is made on this occasion, and is served to the mother and to her guests, mainly to her friends. It is said that if the entire of to Rujak has a sweet taste, the child will be a girl, and if it is spicy, the baby is a boy.