Tag: East Asian
Braised Chicken with Mushrooms
Braised Chicken with Mushrooms
This is some Chinese cuisine that you’ll never find on any menu. Braised chicken wings with shiitake and wood ear mushrooms is a great example of home cooking. This comfort food requires a few ingredients with minimal prep work, all cooked in the same pan, resulting in complex umami flavors. Serve the chicken and mushrooms with steamed rice.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 lbs chicken wings drumette and wingette separated; tips removed
- 4 slices ginger
- 25 small dried shiitake mushrooms soaked in warm water for 2 hours
- 1 cup dried wood ear mushrooms soaked in warm water for an hour
- 1 1/4 cup mushroom soaking water
- 1/4 cup shaoxing cooking wine
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- 2 tsp dark mushroom soy sauce
- 2 green onions chopped
Instructions
- Soak the shiitake mushrooms for 2 hours; wood ear mushrooms for 1 hour; in warm water. Save 1 1/4 cup of the shiitake soaking water.
- Heat up cooking oil in a large wok or sauté pan over medium high heat. Sauté the ginger for a minute.
- Toss in the chicken wings and brown for 5 minutes.
- Add in the drained mushrooms. Sauté for 2 minutes.
- Add in the mushroom soaking water, cooking wine, soy sauces, and sugar. Bring to a boil.
- Cover. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer for 45 minutes. Stir in the green onions.
Kitsune Udon
Kitsune Udon
While you will rarely ever see kitsune udon in the U.S., it is a staple in Japan and is considered their soul food. The soup consists of udon noodles in a dashi stock base. The soup is topped with kitsune. Kitsune starts out as thin sheets of pressed tofu. The sheets are fried until crispy. At this point, the fried tofu sheets are now called aburaage. If you are pressed for time, you can buy already prepared aburaage at just about every Asian market. The aburaage are then simmered in soy, mirin, sake, and sugar until they soak up the sweet and salty liquid. The soup gets garnished with lots of green onions and togarashi pepper.
Servings: 2
Ingredients
Kitsune
- vegetable oil for frying
- 3 tofu sheets pat dry with paper towel
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp mirin
- 1 tbsp sake
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 cup water
Udon Soup
- 4 cups dashi stock
- 3 tbsp mirin
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp sake
- 16 oz frozen udon noodles
- 4 green onions chopped
- togarashi pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat up 4 tbsp of cooking oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add in the tofu sheets.
- Fry for 4-5 minutes a side until crispy. Drain on paper towels.
- Mix together the soy sauce, mirin, sake, sugar, and water. Bring to a simmer in a sauté pan. Add the fried tofu sheets. Simmer until they soak up all of the liquid. Set aside.
- Bring the dashi stock, soy sauce, mirin, and sake to a boil in a pot.
- Add in the udon noodles. Simmer for 5 minutes until the noodles are cooked through.
Garlic Chive Stir Fry
Garlic Chive Stir Fry
Garlic chive stir fry is a typical Taiwanese home style dish. If you haven’t eaten garlic chives before, you’re missing out. They’re like a cross between green onions and regular chives, with the bite of a green bean. Plus they have a garlicky flavor. This simple stir fry comes together quickly in 10 minutes for about $6; enough for 4 servings. If you don’t eat pork, you can substitute ground beef, chicken, turkey, and even crumbled tofu.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 lb ground pork
- 3 tsp shaoxing cooking wine
- 3 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1 tbsp ginger minced
- 2 tbsp garlic minced
- 1/4 cup fermented black beans soaked and rinsed
- 1 small red bell pepper diced
- 1 lb garlic chives cut into 2” pieces
- 1 tsp sesame oil
Instructions
- Heat up 1 tbsp of cooking oil in a large sauté pan or wok over medium high heat. Add in the ground pork.
- Cook for 6 minutes until completely browned. Stir in the cooking wine, 1 tbsp of soy sauce, and the sugar. Remove from the pan and set aside.
- Heat up the rest of the cooking oil. Sauté the ginger and garlic for a minute.
- Add in the fermented black beans and cook for another minute.
- Add in the red bell pepper. Turn the heat up to high and cook for 1 minute.
- Add in the garlic chives and ground pork. Sauté for 1 minute.
- Season with the rest of the soy sauce and sesame oil. Turn off the heat.
