Vegetarian Chinese Cooking

Class 2 Photos

pthreads — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:31:06 +0000

Photos from class 2 are here…

Hot and Sour Soup

pthreads — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:53:07 +0000

Here is the recipe for Hot and Sour Soup. Ingredients are tofu, sliced mushrooms, bamboo shoot strips, wood ear and dried lily flowers (optional).

Slice tofu into thin strips about an inch long.
Soak wood ear for 10-15 minutes.
If using mushrooms cut them into slices.
Heat water in a wok.
Add bamboo shoot strips, wood ear, and mushroom.
When the water comes to a boil add soy sauce to get some color.
After a minute to two remove froth and add tofu slices.
Add salt and white pepper according to taste.
Add corn starch to get desired consistency.
Cook for a few minutes until all ingredients are sufficiently cooked to desired softness, especially the wood ear.
Add a little bit of vinegar and sesame oil. Hot and Sour soup is ready.

Stir-fried Green Vegetable with Ham

pthreads — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:18:42 +0000

This dish goes well with Ma-Po Tofu. Bok-Choy was used but most other green vegetables can be used. Vegetarian Ham (made from soy) can be found easily at most chinese grocery stores.

Ingredients: Bok-Choy, Veggie Ham, Chinese Mushroom, Ginger.Remove core and bottom from bok-choy stems before cooking. Cut ginger into thin strips. Cut carrots into circular slices.Preparation:

Cut veggie ham into semi-circular slices and saute in small amount of vegetable oil (just enough to wet the slices).
Separately fry ginger in oil.
Add salt, little water. When the water becomes hot add bok-choy stems.
Saute bok-choy and carrots for a few minutes. Stir regularly while cooking. Don’t cook them fully.
Add bok-choy leaves and cook for a little bit longer.
Arrange bok-choy on a plate and decorate with veggie-ham and carrots.

Ma-Po Tofu

pthreads — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:12:49 +0000

Here is the recipe for Ma-Po Tofu. It is a nice simple dish and can be made in a very short time. You can have this with rice or by itself. If you don’t want to make it spicy then substitute regular bean sauce instead of hot bean sauce. While buying bean sauce check label to make sure that it does not have MSG (unless you really want it)! Ingredients:

Firm Tofu – cubed
Green beans (optional)
Ginger – shredded
Hot bean sauce (or regulr bean sauce)
Vegetable oil, sesame oil
Soy sauce
Salt, sugar
Corn starch (make smooth paste in water)

How to prepare:

Heat a little vegetable oil in a wok.
Fry ginger for a few seconds.
Add hot bean sauce, stir regularly. Adjust heat so as to avoid burning.
After about a half minute add a little water and the tofu.
Add enough water to cover about half the tofu level in the wok and raise the heat.
Add soy sauce.
Allow tofu to cook for a few minutes (about 10 minutes depending on quantity of tofu).
Add salt and sugar according to taste. Cook for another minute or so.
Add corn starch and cook for an additional minute or so.
Add sesame oil and mix. Cook for an additional minute and you are done. Enjoy!

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Photos Are Here!

pthreads — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:35:30 +0000

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Class 1

pthreads — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:50:22 +0000

Our first class was a lot of fun. Paul, the instructor, is great and his style is very informal. A friendly translator was available to assist him when needed. This was a very interesting class – there were no written recipes, we all took notes and pictures as we observed the instructor make the dishes.

Hello world!

pthreads — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:56:03 +0000

Welcome to the blog! Stay tuned…