Monday, February 15, 2016

Feedback and Recipes of China

Today I made dumplings and chicken fried rice from China in honor of Lunar New Year. Here's the feedback and posted below is the recipes for the dishes.
- The food was AMAZING! Maybe try and make food for the vegetarians.
- I'm not really a dumplings person but the rice was great. It had incredible flavor, and I think the peppers made it. 9/10
- I only had the chicken fried rice but it was really good. It tasted like ti was from hibachi.
- Your food was great. I only had the rice, yet it was a 10/10 meal for me. Each of your cooking has benn amazing and gives me more of a reason to enjoy Fridays.
- I really liked the rice and dumplings. They had a good combination off flavors.
- Perfectly executed! Bring more portions!
- AMAZING JOB! The dumplings wee great and the rice was absolutely amazing!
- I loved your chicken fried rice. It was a good combination of flavors and had a good texture.
- I really like the chicken fried rice! At first when I had the dumpling I thought it was plain but then I put the soy sauce on it and it was very good! Nice job!
- I thought the rice was perfectly evened out in terms of the ingredients. I especially liked the bit of chicken. The dumplings were a little too doughy in my opinion but they were still good.
- I really enjoyed your dish today and was happy to eat one of my favorite meals. The dumplings were really good, although my second one had a bigger dough ratio than meat. The rice followed by soy sauce was great.
- I thought your food was amazing! I absolutely loved the dumplings and they tasted even better with the soy sauce! I loved the rice too. I can't wait for the next time.
- The rice was very good and I was cooked perfectly and I don't know what other things you put in there but it worked! Oh, I usually don't like peppers but I liked that.
-Rice- amazing; maybe add a little more spicy.

The dumplings were not my best presentation but everything came out good so I guess that's what counts; the flavor (not my personal motto as I will try to do better next time) Here's a picture of how they turned out.

Recipes
Dumplings:
- Ginger root (fresh, 2in x 1/2 in) shredded
- 1 pound of ground pork
- 1 tablespoon of rice wine
- 1/4 cup of scallions
- 1/4 cup of celery
For the dumpling wrapper, use 3 cups of flour and 1 1/4 cups of water and mix to create a dough.
Knead it and let it sit for five minutes then knead for three minutes again. Let it sit until you are done with the pork preparations.

1) Add the minced (cut as very small cubes/ cut thinly) of scallions, celery and the shredded ginger to the meat and mix it.
2) Once the dough is ready, make circles and place some meat inside. Seal the dough so that the meat can stay inside.
3) Place in a pan with water that doesn't exceed the height of the dumpling and steam for about 25 minutes. To check, take a dumpling and open it and taste it to check if the pork is cooked properly. You could buy dipping sauce specialized for Chinese dumplings.

Chicken Fried Rice:
- 1/2 tablespoon of red pepper (diced)
- 1/2 tablespoon of scallions (thinly sliced)
- Depending on how many people you are cooking for determines the amount of white rice you used. Make it a day before because it is better when it is cold. Let it cool out.
- 1/2 tablespoon of garlic
- 1/2 tablespoon of ginger
- 1 cup of fried chicken cut how you like it.
- 1/2 cup of soy sauce.

1) Pan fry the red pepper, garlic, ginger, scallions, and chicken. Then in a separate pan fry the rice with the soy sauce.

1 comment:

  1. I love your idea for Genius Hour, and I really enjoy your blog and how you not only out the responses and recipe, but also background of the place! I also think the photo is a good addition to your blog. Maybe for the next time you can tell where you got inspiration from (like how you write Lunar New Year for the Chinese theme), and where you got the food choice ideas from, even if it is from a person. Other than that, your blog is great! Keep up the good work

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