Free Cooking Recipes

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While sesame seeds have a very subtle flavor and add a crunchiness here in contrast to the tender chicken strips, sesame oil is much stronger so the little used in this recipe is to add flavor rather than for frying purposes. Serve this dish hot with some stir-fried vegetables. It is also delicious cold, as a salad.

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This delicious Malaysian specialty can be made well in advance and chilled until required. Also try a combination of chicken, pork and beef. Serve the satays either as part of an oriental meal, or as a meal on its own, accompanied with plain boiled rice.

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Mirin is available from Japanese food shops – but if you cannot obtain it, substitute with a dry sherry. Serve these skewers either as a starter, or with plain boiled rice as a main course. Chicken livers are sometimes included in Yakitori.

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These small pouches of seasoned minced meats are a familiar snack in the tea-houses of Southern China — and are also known as dim sum or- steamed open dumplings. Very `moreish’, and delicious eaten on their own or with a ‘dunking’ sauce such as a proprietary Chinese plum sauce. A simple recipe for making your own dough is included; alternatively good Chinese grocers sell fresh or frozen ‘wuntun skins’.

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The combination of lemon and chicken has been used in many good recipes and this one is no exception. It is quickly prepared and cooked and delicious accompanied with brown rice.

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The dish is typical of many Chinese recipes — full of flavour, contrasting textures and colours and quickly prepared. Stir-frying ensures that the chicken juices are sealed in and very little goodness, nutritionally. is lost during cooking.

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