Recipes

青椒牛柳 / Green Pepper Beef

Materials

  • 200g of beef - sliced into thin strips
  • half of an onion - cut into thin slices
  • 2 bell peppers (perferably different color for looks)
  • 1 thai spicy pepper - minced
  • 3 cloves of garlic - minced
  • some ginger, grated
  • 3 tablespoons of soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
  • 1 tablespoon of cooking wine
  • 1 tablespoon of starch
  • pinch of sugar (optional)
  • black pepper peper
  • white seaseme seeds

Instructions

  1. Mix the following in a bowl: beef, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking wine, starch, some black pepper, a pinch of sugar (optional). Marinate for 30 min+
  2. Add oil to wok, when oil is heated, pan fry the marinated beef to ~half cooked.
  3. Remove the beef from the wok, add in bell peppers, onion, and spicy pepper, stir fry until cooked
  4. Add back in the beef strips, season with black pepper
  5. Garnish with white seaseme seeds

Comments

Depending on if you want/like spicy food, you may want to skip the spicy pepper.

Brothy White Bean Soup

Materials

  • 1 can of cannelli beans (without liquid)
  • 1 can of chickpeas (with liquid)
  • 1 cup of oat milk
  • 1 tablespoon starch
  • 1 tablespoon of unsalted butter
  • 1 head of garlic
  • 1 tablespoon thyme
  • 1 bayleaf
  • a pinch of chinese five spice powder
  • grated parmesan cheese
  • red pepper flakes

Instructions

  1. Skin and break apart the head of garlic, cut/crush each clove into 1-2 large pieces
  2. In a pot, melt butter over medium high heat, add garlic, cook until golden brown
  3. Add oat milk, chickpeas and their liquid, white beans, thyme, bay leaf, five spice, and stir to combine
  4. When mixture begins to bubble around the edges, reduce heat to simmer. Simmer for 30 min.
  5. While simmering, mix starch in a bowl with a bit of water, pour into the pot, stir until broth thickens.
  6. Season with salt + pepper to taste.
  7. Remove the bay leaf, set aside until cool enough to handle, garnish with red pepper flakes and grated parmesan cheese.

Comments

The red pepper flake adds a lot of flavor, do not skip over just because it’s a garnish.

The orginal recipe called for whole milk instead of oat milk + starch. I am lactose-intolerant so I’ll always prefer the dairy-free recipe. But YMMV.

Source

Originally from here.

Substitued Oat Milk + Starch for whole milk.

炒蒜苔 (Stir Fry Garlic Stalk)

Material

  • 100g of pork - sliced into strips
  • 250g of garlic stalk - cut into 3cm pieces
  • 2 cloves of garlic - minced
  • soy sauce

Instructions

  1. Add oil into a wok, heat until smoking
  2. Add in minced garlic, stir fry until aromatic
  3. Add in the sliced pork, stir fry until golden brown
  4. Add in garlic stalk, stir fry until covered with oil
  5. Add in soy sauce, stir until well mixed

Comments

It is kind of hard to obtain garlic stalk in American supermarkets. Apparently they’re sometimes called “garlic scapes”. Just go to a Chinese supermarket.

This dish works well with rice (to no one’s surprise…), but also works amazingly as filling between two pieces of toast.

I wrote “garlic stalk” for this, but that can be substituted for by “garlic flower”, “leek”, or “leek flower”, or even “onion”. Although I doubt everything other than the last one is only available in Asian supermarkets.

Sources

N/A. Family recipe.