Sweet Rice Flour

Sticky Rice Flour

I searched Wiki, but couldn’t find one for sweet rice flour or sticky rice flour, but I did see “sticky rice” over there. And it did mention ‘glutinous rice flour’ in the article.

Below is the link for “sticky rice”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutinous_rice

Sticky Rice Flour is a popular ingredient to make sticky type snack, especially around Chines New Year.

Dough with sticky rice flour is pretty sticky, sometimes we’ll mix some white rice flour with it to make the dough firm enough to shape.

Stir Fried Eggs with Pepper

 

Stir Fried Eggs with Pepper

 

This is one of my favorite dishes ever since I was in middle school, especially summer time, when it’s time to harvest banana peppers. I love the hot but not too hot type peppers.

Ingredients:Stir Fried Eggs with Pepper

Peppers, eggs, seasoning to taste

Method:

1. Chop peppers into pieces, get rid of seeds.

2. Mix egg with little cooking wine and salt, maybe some white pepper, too, beat well.Stir Fried Eggs with Pepper

3. Heat up skillet, add cooking oil, cook peppers on medium high heat for several minutes.

4. Pour egg mixture into skillet before peppers get too tender, stir some, to make the egg mixture shape like a pancake.

5. Flip when the bottom get firm.

Stir Fried Eggs with Pepper          Stir Fried Eggs with Pepper          Stir Fried Eggs with Pepper

6. When it’s golden brown on both side, transfer to a plate and serve.

 

Stir Fried Eggs with Pepper

 

辣椒炒蛋

 

辣椒炒蛋

 

小时候,家里有一个小后院,夏天就是一个小小的菜园子,每年必种的一样就是辣椒。每到辣椒收获的季节,辣椒炒蛋就是饭桌上最常见的一道菜。

材料:辣椒炒蛋

辣椒,鸡蛋,调味料

做法:

1、辣椒去籽,切块。

可以用切滚刀块的办法切辣椒,这样中间剩下的就是辣椒籽,略微省事一些。辣椒炒蛋

2、鸡蛋加盐和白胡椒、少许料酒打散。

3、炒锅倒油烧热,倒入辣椒中大火略炒。

4、辣椒稍微开始变软的时候,倒入鸡蛋液,略微搅动,把蛋液摊成一张大饼。

辣椒炒蛋         辣椒炒蛋        辣椒炒蛋

5、蛋饼底部凝固之后,给蛋饼翻身。

6、蛋饼两面金黄即可出锅。

 

辣椒炒蛋

 

 

素馅春卷

 

素馅春卷

 

记得当初在国内的时候,北方卖的春卷都是豆沙馅的,我于是误以为春卷就都是豆沙馅的。后来在上海吃到了蔬菜馅的春卷,才知道原来什么都可以做春卷馅。

材料:素馅春卷素馅春卷

馅:白菜、胡萝卜、粉丝、鸡蛋、调味料

春卷皮,面粉适量

做法:

1、春卷皮室温解冻。素馅春卷

春卷皮解冻不需要很久,通常我准备好馅料的时候,春卷皮就已经解冻了。

2、粉丝用水泡软。

3、鸡蛋打散,摊成蛋皮。

一般四个蛋我可以摊成三张蛋皮。素馅春卷

4、蛋皮、白菜、胡萝卜切丝,粉丝切短。

素馅春卷          素馅春卷

5、炒锅倒油烧热,放入白菜丝和胡萝卜丝炒软,然后加入粉丝炒散。

素馅春卷

如果粉丝太干,可以稍微加一点水。

6、加入蛋皮丝,炒匀之后加盐、白胡椒略微煸炒,然后加一点香麻油,炒匀之后停火放凉。

7、面粉加水拌匀,调成略稀的面糊。

8、春卷皮边缘刷一层面糊,放入春卷馅,包好。

素馅春卷          素馅春卷         素馅春卷

素馅春卷          素馅春卷

9、炸锅倒油烧热,把春卷炸至表面金黄即可。

也可以用煎的,煎的味道略微差一点,没那么香,不过要健康很多。

 

素馅春卷

 

 

Spring Roll with Veggie and Egg

Spring Roll with Veggie and Egg

I love spring rolls better than egg rolls, because of their crispy wrap. Wrap of spring rolls is very thin, and is very crispy after deep frying.

 Ingredients:

Filling: Napa Cabbage, carrot, eggs, cellophane noodle, seasoning to taste. little wheat flour for sealing.

Spring roll Wrap, flour

Method:

1. Soak cellophane noodle in water, set aside.

2. Set spring roll wrap aside to defrost.

The wrap is frozen, I normally take it out of freezer, let it sit in air to defrost. It will be ready when I’m done cooking filling.

3. Beat eggs well, heat up frying pan, add cooking oil to make some not-too-thick egg sheets.Spring Roll with Veggie and Egg

I made 3 sheets out of 4 eggs.

4. Chop egg sheets into thin sticks, as shown in picture.

5. Chop Napa Cabbage and carrot into thin strips.

6. Chop cellophane noodle into short sticks.Spring Roll with Veggie and Egg

7. Heat up skillet, add cooking oil, stir fry Napa Cabbage and carrot on medium high heat for several minutes.

8. Add cellophane noodle into skillet, cook until it get tender. Add small amount of water if needed.

Spring Roll with Veggie and Egg  Noodle will turn clear when it’s well cooked. Normally the juice comes out of cabbage would be enough to soften the noodle, but if not, you can get some water, just as much as you need to cook the noodle real tender. No need to make the filling watery since the wrap doesn’t like wet filling.

Spring Roll with Veggie and Egg9. Add egg strips into skillet, mix well, add salt and white pepper and any other seasoning to your taste, cook for another minute, add sesame oil, mix well. Drain if there is any juice, set aside to let it cool.

Filling has to be dry and cool to be wrapped.

10. Mix flour and water, beat until smooth.

This is the sealing batter. It don’t have to be too thick.

11. Take a sheet of the spring roll wrap, fill in some filling, brush the sealing batter along the edge, then wrap it up.

Spring Roll with Veggie and Egg    Spring Roll with Veggie and Egg    Spring Roll with Veggie and Egg

Spring Roll with Veggie and Egg    Spring Roll with Veggie and Egg

12. Deep fry spring rolls on medium high heat until golden brown. Serve when hot.

You can do air fry or bake if you’d like the healthier result. Simply brush the spring rolls with cooking oil first, then follow the cooking instructions.

Spring Roll with Veggie and Egg

毛毛虫热狗包

 

毛毛虫热狗包

 

我想做这种毛毛虫面包有日子了,不过始终没有想好做什么馅。最近发现很多同事都喜欢一家甜甜圈店卖的热狗包,于是我就琢磨着把毛毛虫和热狗包综合在一起。味道真的是很不错,我拿了几个给同事吃,个个都说好吃的很。

材料:

面团:高筋面粉 200 克(1.5 杯),酵母 2 小勺,温牛奶 80 克,柠檬汁 10 克,鸡蛋 1 个,室温黄油 30 克(2 大勺),白糖 2 小勺,盐少许。

馅:热狗肠 6 根,碎乳酪适量。

表面刷料:蜂蜜和水按1:1的比例混匀。

做法:

1、酵母和白糖混合,用温牛奶化开,静置 10 分钟左右或到酵母液表面充满气泡。毛毛虫热狗包

2、把除黄油外的面团材料倒进酵母液,揉成面团。

3、把黄油切成小块,和面团一起揉匀,饧发到原来的两倍大。

如果时间比较紧,这步饧发可以省略,面团略饧 10-15 分钟即可。

4、把面团按扁揉圆,分成六等份。毛毛虫热狗包

5、取一份面团,擀成长方形。长方形的宽要略微长过热狗肠,长方的一端用刀切一些平行的口子。

6、把热狗肠从没有切口的一端卷起来,卷到刀口处。

7、再刀口处撒上适量的碎乳酪,边缘处留下一点空白。然后把热狗肠继续卷到头,封口朝下。

8、做好的热狗包生坯静置饧发到原来的两倍大。毛毛虫热狗包

9、烤箱预热 350 华氏度(175 摄氏度)。

10、蜂蜜和水混匀,刷在生坯表面,放入烤箱烤 20 分钟左右或到表面金黄。

11、面包拿出烤箱后趁热刷一层蜂蜜水,然后晾凉即可。

我起了玩心,把热狗肠切了切,面包的瓤就变了:

毛毛虫热狗包         毛毛虫热狗包         毛毛虫热狗包        毛毛虫热狗包

 

毛毛虫热狗包

 

Caterpillar Shaped Bread with Beef Frank and Cheese

 

Caterpillar Shaped Bread with Beef Frank and Cheese

 

Many of my co-workers love the Kolaches from Shipley’s Donut. one day, I was in the mode of trying to bake them at home. Since I don’t really like the their recipe, I decided to use one of my favorite dough recipes instead. It turns out good, really good.

Ingredients:

Dough: 2 tsb dry yeast, 2 tsb sugar, 80g warm milk, 1.5 cups bread flour, 10g lemon juice, 1 egg, 2 tbsp butter (room temperature), a pinch salt.

Filling: 6 beef frank, proper amount grated cheese.

Topping: honey:water = 1:1, proper amount.

Method:Caterpillar Shaped Bread with Beef Frank and Cheese

1. Mix dry yeast and sugar, melted by warm milk, set aside for several minutes, or until you see lots of bubbles on the surface.

2. Add all the dough ingredients except butter into yeast mixture, form a ball.

3. Add butter to dough, punch for several minutes until dough is smooth and elastic.

4. Set dough aside until dough get double sized.Caterpillar Shaped Bread with Beef Frank and Cheese

If you’re in rush, you can let dough rest for about 10-15 minutes.

5. Punch dough down, then seperate into 6 equal pieces.

6. Roll each pieces into rectangle shape, a little bit wider than length of the beef frank, and cut one end as shown in picture.

7. Sprinkle grated cheese at the end with cuts, roll beef frank as shown in picture, make sure seam is at bottom. Then set aside until double-sized.Caterpillar Shaped Bread with Beef Frank and Cheese

8. Preheat oven to 350 degree.

9. Mix honey and water, brush on top of bread, bake about 20 minutes or until golden brown.

10. Brush honey mixture on top of bread right after taking bread out of oven, transfer to wired rack to cool.

I was in a playing mode, and tried to do the beef frank in a different way, below is what I did:

Caterpillar Shaped Bread with Beef Frank and Cheese          Caterpillar Shaped Bread with Beef Frank and Cheese          Caterpillar Shaped Bread with Beef Frank and Cheese          Caterpillar Shaped Bread with Beef Frank and Cheese

 

Caterpillar Shaped Bread with Beef Frank and Cheese

 

 

Tortilla Burrito with Ground Meat

 

Tortilla Burrito with Ground Meat

 

I love the uncooked tortilla. It’s so easy and convenient to cook with it. And it tastes good, better than cooked ones.

Ingredients:Tortilla Burrito with Ground Meat

uncooked tortilla, ground meat, egg, green onion, seasoning.

Method:

1. Chop green onion into little pieces, mix with a little bit salt, set aside for several minutes.

2. Beat egg well, set aside.Tortilla Burrito with Ground Meat

3. Season meat, then mix with green onion.

Use less salt, since green onion is salty.

4. Brush a thin layer of egg on a tortilla, then spread a layer of meat, then brush a layer of egg and roll it up.

Tortilla Burrito with Ground Meat          Tortilla Burrito with Ground Meat          Tortilla Burrito with Ground Meat

5. Heat up the frying pan, add some cooking oil, pan fry the burrito until golden brown on medium heat.

6. Serve hot.

 

Tortilla Burrito with Ground Meat

肉末卷饼

 

肉末卷饼

 

家里剩了一点肉馅,我懒得和面包饺子或者包子,就买了点墨西哥薄饼做了几张卷饼。

材料:肉末卷饼

墨西哥(生)薄饼,小葱,肉馅,鸡蛋,调味料。

做法:

1、小葱切葱花,用点盐拌匀,腌几分钟。

2、肉馅加入调味料拌匀,再拌入葱花搅匀。肉末卷饼

3、鸡蛋打散,待用。

4、取一张薄饼,上面刷一层蛋液,然后铺一层肉馅,再刷一层蛋液,然后卷成筒状。

加蛋液是为了饼和肉馅可以更好的连成一体,不会分家。

肉末卷饼        肉末卷饼          肉末卷饼          肉末卷饼

5、平底锅倒油烧热,中火把卷饼煎至表面金黄即可。

 

肉末卷饼