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Cooking time: 30 minutes for menu Cooking schedule: see below for instructions
This menu is based on one form '1000 Chinese Recipes' cook book. According to Chinese tradition there should be one 'dish' for each diner (not counting the rice). So we have soup and pork. For more people you could add Red Sauced Shrimp. We're taking a bit of ham from Sunday to use for this garnish, rather than the Prosciutto.
Total time: 15 minutes
Soups are usually included with a Chinese meal, though not as a first course. Traditional meals do not have courses unless they are banquets. We modify it to suit our own customs.
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*Note: The easiest way to separate eggs is to crack it and dump it in your clean hand. Let the white run through your fingers into the bowl and discard the yolk. Or you can, carefully, transfer the yolk from eggshell half to eggshell half - this keeps your fingers clean. I don't do this because our eggshells have not been washed like they (usually) are in the U.S. I know my fingers are clean.
I have no use planned for the egg yolks. You can refrigerate them and use them in omelets, freeze them and save them for baking, (see tips) or discard them.
Total time: 25 minutes
This is not the kind made with canned pineapple, which I think is horrid, but an actual real Chinese
recipe. In the interest of health and simplicity I did not batter and deep-fry the pork first. I used to.
This way is just as good and I don't have to haul 3 cups of hot, smoking oil out to the back garden to toss.
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Total time: 20 minutes or whatever your package says
I use 'Uncle Ben's' which is all I can get and it is quick cooking. It looks like brown Basmati and cooks in 15 minutes.
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Note: You can toast regular sesame seeds in a small, dry, skillet over medium heat for 5 - 7 minutes, until light brown.
Cooking Schedule: 30 minutes for menu |
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