We keep hearing that it's easy to prepare stir-fry dishes. You just keeping stirring the ingredients until they're cooked,... supposedly.The thing is, what do we use to flavor the dishes ?
My mom sent me a Chinese cookbook - it's more of a pamphlet, really - and this gave us a starting point in terms of the sauce.
For this chicken-stir fry dish, we used the following:
Skinless & boneless chicken thighs, cut into strips
1 head of broccoli florets (did not know that the stem is edible so I threw it away, argh!)
1 carrot, sliced
quail eggs
2 cloves garlic
1 tsp grated ginger
sauce:
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp lite soy sauce
1 tsp cornstarch, dissolved in 2 tbsp water
1 tsp sugar
- Blanch the vegetables - broccoli and carrots.
- In a wok, saute the garlic and the ginger in hot oil.
- Add the chicken and stir around until chicken in cooked.
- Pour in the sauce and then add the vegetables and the quail eggs.
- Let the sauce boil and thicken.
- Serve
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i do something similar, but with fish fillet and tofu, instead of chicken. slice the fish into 2x1 inch pieces/ season with salt and pepper, dredge in flour and shallow fry. cut the tofu into squares and fry as well. set aside.
toss the vegetables in a small bit of oil to coat(this eliminates blanching). saute minced garlic, ginger strips. add the veggies (i like adding mushrooms and young corn). add the fish and tofu. add a cup or so of water and season with soy/oyster sauce, salt, if needed and black pepper. simmer until veggies are tender. thicken with cornstarch, dissolved in cold water. toss in some sliced leeks (white and light green parts).
a few drops of sesame oil before serving.
i guess mine is more of a fish tofu hotpot... now that i think of it. not that i cook it in a claypot as originally intended. =D how are you?
Hi Kayenne,
Your dish sounds fab and I'll try it some time. Can you share a picture so I'll know what it's supposed to look like ?
tamang tama, I have this clay pot that I haven't used pa. Mom brought it for me when she visited early this year.
hi! didn't see your comment until now. hehe will take a photo next time i make it. i don't think i have an existing photo(cooked lots of stuff, but keep forgetting the camera!). not sure if we have fish fillet right now. =D
Hi! I've the fish tofu recipe and pictures up finally. I posted it at a friend's forum. Please check if you can access. If not, I'll make a copy for you.
http://z10.invisionfree.com/AfterSchool_HangOut/index.php?showtopic=122
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