Pad Thai Chicken

Pad Thai Chicken is a simple noodle recipe typical chinese cuisine. With the authentic Pad Thai sauce which a little spicy is a good serving dish for your family.

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Ingredients :

300g Rice noodles, thick, dried
3 tablespoonful vegetable oil
2 Eggs
0.5 teaspoonful Salt
0.5 teaspoonful base black pepper
100g boneless Skinless Chicken breast
1 clove Garlic, finely chopped
60g shrimps, cooked
3 small Spring onions, shredded
3 tablespoonful roasted Peanuts, coarsely base
3 tablespoonful Fish Sauce
3 red chillies, seeds removed, sliced
1 tablespoonful lemon juice
0.5 teaspoonful brown sugar
120g bean sprouts
50g mange tout or sugar snap peas, sliced
3 tablespoonful coriander leaves, chopped


Method :

Soak the rice noodles in hot water for about 20 minutes till they have softened

Beat the eggs with salt and pepper and heat 1 tablespoonful of the vegetable oil in a frying pan. Pour in the eggs and make a thin omelette - turn it out of the pan and and cut into thin strips
Leave the omelette one side while you make the pad thai

Preheat the remaining 3 tablespoonful of vegetable oil and fry the garlic and sliced chicken breast until the chicken is barely tender and the garlic turns gold

Mix the shrimps and spring onions to the pan and stir fry for another minute. Tip in the drained noodles, peanuts and add the fish sauce, chillies, lemon juice and brown sugar.
Stir fry over a high heat for a further minute

Toss in the beanspouts, mangetout and omelette strips, and cook briskly for about 30 seconds more. Season to taste and serve piping hot, garnished with coriander.

This Chinese recipe serves for 4


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• Peking Duck

Peking Duck

Chinese people is famous with their cooking art. From chicken, duck,beef,seafood, etc all can be variated into many rich taste of traditional dish. This Peking Duck recipe already made since the imperial era and untill now still wellknown as one of Chinese national food.

Ingredients :

1 whole ducks
2 ltr boiling water
5 tablespoonful clear Honey
2 tablespoonful dark Soy sauce
4 tablespoonful Chinese five spice
2 tablespoonful brown sugar

Sauce
2 tablespoonful Sesame oil
6 tablespoonful hoi sin sauce
6 tablespoonful caster sugar
6 tablespoonful water
1 tablespoonful dark Soy sauce
1 tablespoonful cornflour

Pancakes
8 pancakes, ready-made
4 Spring onions, shredded
0.5 Cucumber, shredded


Method :

Put the duck on a rack over a deep roasting tin. Pour over the hot water and leave on one side until the water has all drained away from the bird.

Discard the water and leave the duck exposed to air until it's really dry

Mix together the honey, soy sauce, five spice powder and brown sugar. Using a pastry brush, sweep this sauce over the duck, inside and out.

Leave the bird to dry again. There should now be a thin glaze all over the bird. Give the duck another coat of sauce and leave to dry once more. Keep repeating the process until all sauce has been used up.

Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6. Roast the duck for 30 minutes before turning it over and cooking for another half hour, until the skin has crispened. Take away from the oven and leave it to cool for about 15 minutes. Joint the duck and slice its meat off the bone.

While roasting the duck, make the sauce.

Warm a wok over a medium heat , and add the sesame oil, hoi sin sauce, caster sugar, water, soy sauce, and the cornflour and water mixture. Bring to a simmer, stirring, and cook down until the sauce has thickened. Leave it to cool.

Warm the pancakes in a bamboo steamer for 4 minutes. Spread a teaspoonful or so of sauce over each pancake and scatter with a plenty of the spring onions and shredded cucumber.

Top with a generous helping of sliced duck meat. Roll up the pancakes into a cigar shape.

this Peking Duck recipe serves for 4


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