Xiaohuang's Cuisine

Hi guys, it's been a really long time. Unfortunatly I won't be able to post any recipes for a few other months. But for now I wanted to give you the chance to cook like a real chinese citizen!

I'll introduce you ingredients you'll always need to keep in stock if you want to cook chinese food daily. And then, tell you how to proceed to chance your food routine into a chinese one.

The ingredients you should always keep in stock:

-Light Soy Sauce (Or also called Clear Soy Sauce). The most IMPORTANT ingredient in chinese food history. Is is used to salt a plate and to give some taste.

-Black Soy Sauce. This soy sauce to used to marinate some plate. Never put to much since the taste is really strong and it colors very well.

-Cooking wine. Preferably Shaoxing Wine, can use Xeres, or at very trouble, Sake. Used to Marinate or seldomly used in sauces for stir fry or the slow cooked chicken.

-Dried chili pepper. Always soak them a bit before using. You can add them in stir fries alongs with garlic. Which means before adding the raw meat. DO NOT EAT THEM. When eating, chinese poeple will just sort them, along with Sichuan pepper.

-Flour, obviously

-Rice vinegar. Used in Sweet and Sour meals, and soups..

-Potato starch. Used to marinate and to thicken the sauce. You can also use cornstarch if you cannot find it.

-Rice.... LOL isn't it obvious?

-Dried Noodle. Very usefull when you don't want to cook rice, just add them in your meals and that'll do.

- Peanut. Peanuts are good in stir fried meals. But chinese poeple loves peanut too. They seasonthem, the roast them, they ground them.... Isn't it amazing?

-Sesame oil. Used to add a nutty flavor to meal. Can be used to marinate or to season the finished meal. Place it on the table along with white soy sauce. Both are like that duo ''Salt and Pepper''.

-Dried shrimps. Delicious on rice, in soups, or just as side dish, marinated or with sesame oil... Just soak them 4-5 minutes.


Sauces:
-Oyster Sauce. Really basic sauce, used in alot of meals.

-Chili-bean sauce, also called Doubanjian. Is a sichuanese sauce, spicy with the tast of black beans and garlic. Good in stir fries or as dipping sauce. Also good on white rice.

-Sesame seeds. Add cute look on meals and some textures.

-Anis stars.

-5 spices

-Garlic and Ginger: Almost essential in every recipes...

Fresh ingredients:

-Your favorite veggies of course. (Veggies popular in chinese cooking: Bell pepper, Eggplants, shiitake mushrooms, white mushrooms, spring onions, winter melon, bean sprouts, onions, bamboo sprouts)

-Chinese sausage. Easy to cook when you dont know what to do. Just make some rice, fry some sliced sausage and add them!


SO. now I've name the ingredients you absolutely need. Now you need to know. Chinese poeple does not always eat meat. They often will substitute it by eggplants or by eggs, or by tofu. You will also find recipes with ''Fried tofu skin''.


I will tell you some combinaitions. Cauz yu won't always want to do a recipe everyday right, you need some rest! Here is combinaions often used in chinese cooking

Chicken+White mushrooms+soy sauce
Eggplants+Tomates+Shaoxing wine
Eggs+Tomatoes+Shaoxing wine+ Light soy sauce
Coliflower+pork+doubanjian
Nappa cabbage+Bell pepper+ketchup+light soy sauce+ rice vinegar
Mini corn+doubanjian