Today's I will introduce to you a Taiwanese speciality with an unusual name called "chang ying tou" 蒼蠅頭 or in English "flies' heads". The flies' heads relate to bits of fermented black beans or dousi. This is a pungent, salty and spicy stirfry with chive flowers, pork and fermented black beans flavoured with some garlic and chillies. It's tasty with plain rice or eaten as part of a Chinese meal.
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Showing posts with label 1b. Taiwanese. Show all posts
Taiwanese meat and mushroom sauce 台式香菇肉燥
台式香菇肉燥 - Tai Shi Xiang Gu Rou Zao
This is Chinese spag bog sauce Taiwanese style. The flavour is similar to this chunky style recipe.
Cheap, flavourful and very versatile, this sauce is great with plain rice, any noodles (dry or soup), stir fries vegetables or serve with plain rice cake. I normally make a big batch, store some in fridge for up to a week or freeze till ready to use. Hard boiled
Fermented beancurd flavoured chicken nuggets with basil 腐乳鹽酥雞
Fu Ru Yen Shu Ji 腐乳鹽酥雞. This recipe is a delight from Taiwan, though not super healthy it's finger licking good. I have made this several times. Chicken has lovely flavour, the coating will stay crunchy for quite long time and the fried basil chips so crunchy they melt in the mouth. The recipe is easy as long as you have some fermented beancurd and some fresh basil.Here is the recipe if you like
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Boiled chewy sweet potato chunks 地瓜圓
Has anyone tried something like this in Taiwan or Taiwanese restaurant? This is a bowl of chewy sweet potato chunks called 'dee kwa yuan 地瓜圓' or 'fun shu yuan 番薯圓', a popular Taiwanese dessert. These chunks are similar to Cantonese glutinous rice balls 'tang yuan 湯圓' but much chewier. The first time I made this dessert following a recipe I found on the internet, it was far too chewy for my taste
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Steamed savoury sticky rice pudding 筒仔米糕
I had some of the stewed pork 滷肉 left and it is great to make 筒仔米糕 'tong zi mi gao' which is a savoury rice pudding/dumpling. It's again another speciality of Taiwanese snack or small eat (小吃 'xiao chi'). This rice pudding is similar to zhongzi, a lot easier to make without having to know how to wrap with bamboo leaves. Traditionally it is made with bamboo cup that looks like this. Now normally
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Southern Taiwanese stewed pork rice 滷肉飯
Stewed pork with rice (lu rou fun 滷肉飯) is very popular anywhere in Taiwan from the market street food stalls to restaurants. Taiwanese stewed pork (滷肉 read as 'lu rou' in Mandarin or 'lor bak' in Hokkien) can be minced pork or pork cubes depending on which area of Taiwan you have this. In the north lu rou is always with minced pork while in the south cubes of pork is preferred.This stewed pork
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Tainan coffin board (bread) 台南棺材板
Coffin board (棺材板 'guan chai bun') is a popular snack from Taiwan. When I first heard of this recipe, I was intrigued by its unusual name wondering how superstitious Chinese can be and how many people can get offended by its name. Coffin board resembles American's chowder filled bread bowl. Instead of crusty bread, coffin board uses fried bread similar to English fried bread but much larger
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Three cups chicken
Chinese: 三杯雞This is a popular Taiwanese recipe. The chicken is braised with an aromatic sauce which is salty, spicy, sweet and very fragrant. Anyone who has tried Vietnamese caramel pork will for sure love this recipe. Traditionally the recipe is for one whole large chicken. The 3 cups here refer to 1 cup of sesame oil. 1 cup cooking wine and 1 cup of soy sauce. For a healthy option, you can cut
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