Basic Tips For Cooking Chinese Food

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By Anjana Ns

Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 15:26

Chinese cooking requires a little mastery as the vegetarian and non vegetarian recipes contain too many ingredients. The spices and herbs they use are difficult to find. There is also a technique in cooking that makes it taste soo exotic and aromatic. Generally, any chef is awarded a title as masterchef if he is well verse in cooking Chinese or certified by the Hong Kong hotel management course.

It is not very easy to cook Asian delicacies at home due to the unavailability of ingredients and vessels. Here, we help you with the basics of cooking Chinese dishes. Sneak a peek.

Basic Tips For Cooking Chinese Food

1. Before you begin with cooking, try to vary the fresh meat and vegetables in a dish. The Chinese believe in bringing balance to cooking by introducing a variety colours, flavours and textures.

2. The chinese use a lot of sauces so keep all the sauces ready with clean and chopped vegetables.

3. All that you need to cook Chinese food is a wok or a peking pan. There is no food that isn't stir fried.

4. The Chinese use a lot of soy and soy extracts like tofu, soy milk etc. Wash tofu well and drain so that it absorbs flavors when mixed with spices.

5. They generally fry everything before serving. They use certain ingredients like ajinomoto, cornstarch, ginger and sauces to make the dish authentically there's.

5. Cabbage, broccoli, carrots, onion, green onion, chillies, some green leafy vegetables, green peas are commonly used in Chinese dishes. They also cook and fry long grain rice.

6. While stir frying or deep frying, you need to check if the oil is hot in wok. All you need to do is drop a ball of batter or vegetable or chopstick and if the oil bubbles, it means it is hot enough for frying.