Recipe for Chinese cuisine: pork in sweet and sour sauce and cookies with a prediction

Not one recipe of Chinese cuisine is familiar to us thanks to cafes and restaurants. But as it turned out, many national dishes can be prepared at home.

You should know, especially if you have already tried.Make homemade Chinese salads, recipes for meat and pastries from this country can also decorate your table. Let's make one main dish and one dessert to prove it.

Chinese cuisine. Pork

Recipes for main dishes that come fromCelestial, most often used as the main ingredient of chicken. This meat is more affordable, besides, it goes well with soy sauce, rice pasta and most vegetables. Pork Gu Lao Jou is not a popular recipe for Chinese cuisine, but its specific sweet-and-sour taste is closer to Europeans than the habitualness of an Orient. Some exotic ingredients can be replaced by more affordable ones. For example, instead of bamboo shoots take green beans. And instead of lemongrass - the usual lemon.

You will need six hundred grams of pork (spatulaor tenderloin), a small jar of canned pineapples, one carrot, one paprika, two small hot peppers (for example, chili) and half a packet of green beans. All of the above are components of the meat base. In addition to it, you will still need to cook the marinade from starch, flour and soy sauce, taken in equal proportions. This Chinese recipe also requires a sauce. It will require the juice of one large lemon, a small bag of tomato paste (100-150 grams) and three teaspoons of sugar. Start with the marinade: pour the soy sauce into a deep plate, add the starch and flour and make sure that the mixture is sour cream in consistency. In it, place the pork washed and cut into thin flat strips for thirty-five minutes. In the meantime, peel and dice the carrots, and the paprika and chili into small slices. Fry vegetables until half cooked, add pineapple slices to them and then another eight minutes. Put on a plate, and in a frying pan fry the marinated meat, stirring constantly. You need to achieve a uniform golden crust.At the same time, the meat should remain soft inside. Prepare a sauce of tomato, lemon and sugar. Mix all the ingredients in one dish and serve with boiled rice.

Fortune Cookies - Chinese Recipe

In these delicate products, it is customary to put messageswritten on paper stripes. Because of this, a cookie is not just a sweetness that is served for tea, it is able to amuse and entertain the whole company. For the dough, you need to take half a glass of fine powdered sugar, ninety grams of high-grade flour, thirty-five grams of butter, forty-five grams of corn starch and three proteins. Take a deep bowl. In it, whisk the whites to a light foam. Add the melted butter, vanillin, flour, starch and powdered sugar (all these components need to be sieved beforehand). All together, mix with a mixer at low speed, you get a sticky dough. Pour it on a baking tray with a tablespoon, holding it vertically, so you will get round cookies. Bake until browning. Then fold the still warm biscuit in half and place in it a prediction or wish printed on a small piece of paper.