Easy Chinese Food Recipes

I am a fish lover and like all kinds of fish dishes. The recipe I am going to introduce to you is probably one of my favorite Chinese food recipes. It is simple, quick and tasty. The best part is that you can have the amazing food all accomplished in the matter of five minutes in microwave, no steamer required! Firstly, let’s look at what you will need:

1. You need some fish, of course. It does not matter what kind of fish you are going to use. Cod, catfish, halibut, and even salmon are perfect choices. Chinese people like to use whole fish. But you don’t have to. However, I would recommend NOT getting fillet. The better choice would be fish steaks due to its thickness.
2. Green onions. You need about two green onions and cut them into green onion silks.
3. Light soy sauce. There are two different kinds of soy sauce. One is dark soy sauce, and the other is the light one. Please make sure you get the light soy sauce. Otherwise, you will have a very very heavy colored fish without much flavor in the end. I recommend the Maggi’s which I think is the best one to use for any seafood plate. If you cannot find Maggi’s in the stores you shop, don’t worry, you will be completely fine as long as you are using the light soy sauce instead of the dark one.
4. Last, not the least, cooking oil and the microwave.

Let’s start cooking. Firstly, you need to clean up the fish by just washing it under running water for a bit. Then place the fish steaks in the plate, cover them with another bowl or plate or anything you can find to cover it in the microwave. This is an important step. Do not put the fish in the microwave without cover as it will let the moisture escape and leave you a very dry fish in the end. Read more »

Steam rice or white rice has played a very important role in Chinese cuisine. Just like French fries, it is the main meal for Chinese people especially in the south part of China. How do you cook the perfect steam rice? Is your steam rice too hard or too soft and soggy? I have seen so many people cook the steam rice in the wrong way. Usually, what they will do is to boil the water first, put the rice in, boil both of them again, dump the water and then scoop the rice. This is so wrong. Therefore, before we get into all kinds of different tasty Chinese food recipes, first thing first, let’s go back to the basic and check out how to make the perfect and restaurant grade steam rice.

The easiest way to cook the steam rice is to do it with a rice cooker. But it does not stop there. There are several techniques to make it perfect. So, here is what you need: rice cooker, rice, water and maybe some vinegar.

The first step is to rinse the rice completely with a big amount of water. Stir the rice with water quickly, rub the rice with your palm with a little bit pressure and immediately discard the water afterwards. Repeat this process for no more than three times. If you do it for more than three times, there is a chance of lost of nutrition in it.

Now, the rice has been cleaned. It is the time to add water again for cooking. You need to pay attention to the amount of the water added since it will determine the softness of rice. You do not want to add too much to make it soggy or too little to make it too hard. The correct rice-to-water ratio is 1:1.2. So if you have two cups of rice, it is about right to add three cups of water. After adding the water, please do not start cooking it immediately. You need wait for half an hour to allow the water being absorbed. After sitting the rice for at least 30 mins, you can now plug in the rice cooker and start cooking.

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