Month: April 2020

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Asian Food Recipes

Recipe: Onion Pancakes (simplified)

Onion Pancakes

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 210 ml water
  • 2 stalks of green onion
  • Pinch of five spice powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • Vegetable oil for frying

Directions:

  1. In mixing bowl, stir water into flour, and keep stirring with an egg whisk. Make sure water and flour are completely combined. Set aside for a few minutes.
  2. Finely chop green onions and throw into mixing bowl with flour/water. Add pinch of salt and five spice seasoning. Stir until everything is combined.
  3. Heat up cooking oil. Pour mixture into a pan. Pan fry over medium heat for 2-4 minutes, until one side turns golden brown. Turn over, and pan fry the other side about 2 minutes. Then turn heat up to high, and fry each side 1 minute for a darker color.
  4. Transfer out and absorb extra oil with a paper towel.
  5. Cut into wedges to serve.

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Recipe: Hua Jun

Ingredients

  • 1 cup milk (or water)
  • 3 cup Korean high protein flour (12%)
  • 2 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. fast acting yeast
  • 2-3 tablespoon oil
  • 2 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 cup chopped scallions

Directions

  1. Place milk, flour, sugar, baking powder, and yeast in dough machine.
  2. Let machine knead the dough
  3. Take out when 20 minutes left on machine
  4. Roll into large flat square sheet about 1/4 inch thick
  5. Spread oil on the sheet, then sprinkle with salt, then chopped scallions
  6. Fold sheets into thirds
  7. Cut into 12 pieces
  8. Using two at a time, pull and twist into a roll; yielding 6 rolls
  9. Using warm water, let the rolls proof in the steamer about 45 minutes. The size of the roll should increase50%.
  10. Steam 15 minutes
  11. Take off burner, and let sit 5 minutes.

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Recipe: A-Choy with fermented tofu

A -choy

A-choy is a Taiwanese vegetable that is fast to cook and has a texture similar to romaine lettuce. It’s a delicious vegetable.

INGREDIENTS

  • (2) stalks of A-choy
  • Cooking oil
  • Chopped garlic
  • .5 tsp mushroom powder
  • Taiwanese fermented tofu

DIRECTIONS

  1. Wash the A-choy
  2. Divide into ~ 4 inch sections
  3. Heat cooking oil in a wok or frying pan
  4. Add chopped garlic and stir fry until flavor is released
  5. Add A-Choy to the wok, and stir fry.
  6. Turn up heat and add some water to hasten cooking
  7. Sprinkle some mushroom powder
  8. Add about a half cube of fermented tofu to flavor
  9. It should be done in less than five minutes. Don’t overcook.
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Recipe: Bread Pretzels — using Dough machine

Bread Pretzels

INGREDIENTS

  • 6.5 to 7 oz. water (room temp – 70 to 80℉)
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 tsp. sugar
  • 2 cups (250 grams) bread flour
  • 1.5 tsp. active dry yeast
  • 1 egg, slightly beaten
  • 1 to 2 tablespoon coarse salt

DIRECTIONS

  1. Measure water into bread pan
  2. Stir salt and sugar into water
  3. Add flour
  4. Put dry yeast on top of flour
  5. Select “Dough” setting, press “start”
  6. When unit indicates about 0:30, press stop (otherwise, will rise too much)
  7. Pre-heat oven to 450℉. Divide dough into 6-12 pieces and form pretzel.
  8. Place on baking pan with parchment paper.
  9. Brush with beaten egg, and sprinkle with coarse salt.
  10. Bake about 12 minutes, then broil for 2 minutes (to brown the top).

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Recipe: Rice Cooker Millet Congee

Millet congee is a good change of pace to steel cut oatmeal for breakfast; and the rice cooker is an easy way to make.

Millet congee

INGREDIENTS

  • 1/2 “rice cooker cup” of millet
  • Water
  • 1/3 of a sweet potato, cubed (or savory ingredients like wood ear fungus, goji berries, etc.)

DIRECTIONS

  1. Put 1/2 (rice cooker measuring) cup of millet into rice cooker bowl
  2. Fill water to 1.5 mark on the Steel Cut Oatmeal mark on Zojirushi rice cooker
  3. Add sweet potato (or sweet/savory ingredients like wood ear fungus, goji berries)
  4. Let soak overnight
  5. Set timer to have congee ready for breakfast