Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Chinese cooking Tips

Chinese Cooking Tips:

1. Use enough oil when stir-frying. This gives best results. If worried about cholesterol and fats in oil, use canola oil - the best oil to use for stir-frying.
2. Try using salt instead of soy sauce. It gives it a nicer color, and tastes better.
3. Cut your ingredients into even sized pieces for best cooking results.
4. Cook the denser ingredients first. Since they take longer time to cook.
5 Use ginger, garlic, and cayenne pepper to spice up your Chinese cooking and also improve your health.
6. Blanche dense vegetables before cooking for best results. For example, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower.
7. You can use starch water to thicken sauces.
8. Prepare your cooking ingredients ahead of time, so you're never rushed.
9. Try using all types of Chinese cooking ingredients such as dried fungus, Chinese mushrooms, yu choy, Chinese broccoli etc...
10. When cooking something, it should look good, smell good, and most of all, taste good.

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