Stir fry

Recipe by no one in particular

Ingredients:

Orange pepper 1

Leek 1

Chicken breast about 230g

Baby Corn 2 packs

How to make:

1. Cut everything up into small pieces.

2. Put oil in a frying pan and heat it up. When the oil shimmers, add the meat.

3. Once the meat has changed colors, add the vegetables. (You can cook the meat and veggies separate too. I don't have space though)

4. Add whatever stir fry sauce you like at the end (I use just plain old soy sauce) Serve on rice.

Really, you can make stir fry with about anything-broccoli, onions, moyashi (bean sprouts), sugar peas, green peas, or whatever else you have! I like making mine with chicken rather than beef, since I've found that beef gets a bit tough.

Chinese stir fry

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Ingredients:

Beef 200g (cut into small pieces, yakiniku meat is good)

Bamboo shoot 1

Piman (green pepper) 1

Red pepper, yellow pepper 1/2 pepper each (I used a whole one each)

Chopped garlic 3 cloves (the kind in a tube is OK)

Meat marinade:

Soy sauce 1 tbsp

Cooking sake 1 tbsp

Sugar 1/2 tbsp

Starch 1 tbsp

Stir fry sauce:

Tobanjan (spicy red bean paste) (豆板醤) 1 tsp

Oyster sauce 1 tbs

Soy sauce 1/2 tbsp

Chinese flavoring (中華味) 2 shakes

Cooking sake 1 tbsp

How to make:

1. Mix the marinade and pour it over the meat, mixing it in. Set aside. Chop up the rest of ingredients.

2. Put 3 tbsp of oil into a frying pan. Cook the meat. When it's about half done, take it out and set aside. Put 1 tbsp of oil into the pan and add the garlic.

3. When you start smelling the garlic, add the vegetables. Stir fry them for a bit, then add the meat back in and stir fry it a little more. Add the sauce right at the end. Done!

I really like this recipe a lot! It's kind of spicy, so you could tone down the red paste stuff. Definitely will make it again!

Sweet and Spicy Chicken Sticks

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Ingredients:

Sasami (boneless chicken breasts) 6 (about 330-350g or so will be fine)

Starch 2 tbsp

Salt and pepper

Sauce:

Soy sauce 3 tbsp

Sugar 1 tbsp

Honey 1 tbsp

Cooking sake t tbsp

Mirin 1 tbsp

Chicken stock powder 1/2 tsp

Seven spice blend (七味）5 shakes (I'm not sure what's in the blend)

Sesame seeds 1 tbsp

How to make:

1. Cut the chicken into strips. Coat with starch, salt, and pepper.

2. Heat up some oil in a frying pan to 180 degrees. Fry the chicken. Once it's done, drain off the oil.

3. In a separate pan, mix the sauce ingredients. Heat it until it just starts to bubble.

4. Coat the chicken with the sauce. Done!

I rarely fry things. I'm actually a bit scared of the oil! But, I managed to fry the chicken without getting popped. The sauce turned out really good, but the chicken a bit on the dry side. I guess I did fairly well for my first time making fried chicken. I think I'll dry cutting the chicken into nuggets next time; that might help with the dryness.