![]() ![]() ![]() I know Vietnamese cooks use a caramel base in their clay-pot pork and fish dishes. ![]() Two brands of Shaoxing wine and a sherry substitute But real Shaoxing wine is best and is easily found at Chinese markets. Taylor even makes a sherry for cooking, available at all liquor stores, which, though inexpensive, is a huge step up from grocery-store cooking sherry. It’s important to use the Shaoxing-though the best substitution of all substitutions frequently made for Chinese ingredients is using pale or golden sherry in place of Shaoxing. The recipe relies for flavoring and coloring on Shaoxing wine, caramelized sugar and ginger. Dried Chinese shitake mushrooms are a great pantry staple Reconstitute dried mushrooms in boiling-hot water I also added the shitake mushrooms to the recipe-reconstituted from dry-because it makes a fuller one-pot meal. The recipe calls for asparagus lettuce (celtuce), but that’s hard to come by in the U.S. So I put them to work chopping, the greater part of the cooking effort with any Chinese dish.įor this dish it was really only celery, shitake mushrooms and ginger. Yulian was eager not only to eat but to learn, since her family of 16 people doesn’t often cook Chinese. But this was the first time they’d seen each other in almost four years. Yulian was adopted by a wonderful family in Chicago about six months before Fongchong joined our family, and they have remained good friends through FaceTime, QQ and text. Yulian is an old friend of Fongchong’s from her village in rural Guangzhou, and she eats like a normal Cantonese it’s FC who’s got the unusual palate for a Cantonese, with a constant craving for spicy food. Teens with cleavers! Two girls who grew up in China, learning to cook Chinese in America So this dish satisfied both those goals that week, since I had not one but two hungry-for-Chinese girls on my hands. A home cook will almost always prepare a braised dish to go along with stir-fries, not only because it varies the tastes in the meal but also because it can be made in advance. In fact, a great deal of it is braised, boiled or steamed. Though you wouldn’t know it from American-Chinese restaurants, not all Chinese food is stir-fried. It is comforting in the extreme but not dull in the least. I just had to call on all the dishes I make that aren’t spicy, starting with this one for Shoaxing wine and ginger chicken stew, more poetically called golden chicken stew, which has intense chicken flavor punctuated by the slightly sweet nuttiness of yellow wine from Shaoxing and the slightly sweet heat of ginger with an undertone of caramelized sugar. ![]() And this was a real challenge for me, since almost everything I make has at least a hint of spice. But we adapted that week and still ate well. Recently we had a Chinese friend stay with us for a week who doesn’t eat spicy food. Plus I made sure I was only using one pan to cook with.Jump to Recipe – proceed at owN risk Chengdu Challenge #7: Caramel, Wine and Ginger Make Stew Sexy I didn’t even slice the mushrooms so it made it that much more easier for me. So I added sherry, wine, and fresh thyme into the mix, and made sure to make this recipe as easy as possible…. I love love love my mom’s recipe but, I wanted to make Golden Mushroom Chicken 2.0. So I got my happy butt in the kitchen with another glass of wine and starting throwing some different ingredients together. And then I realized that was my cue to make it! LOL Love you JT □ We were like – damn how did she take a can of golden mushroom soup and make that chicken taste like that? Then JT was like – oh man I’m gonna make that chicken because I’m craving it now! He went out and bought all of the stuff he needed to make the recipe, but it sat there for a while. The other day my hubby (JT) was reminiscing with me over a glass of wine and this golden mushroom chicken popped up in the conversation. And all us teenage young-in’s would tear it up! Hands down, this is one of my favorite meals she cooks. Every time we ended up at her house back in the day, she had chicken baked in a golden mushroom gravy, with a big pot of collard greens on the side. This golden mushroom chicken is inspired by my mother-in-law. I keep giving you these one pan/pot chicken dinners! And guess what? I have another one for you with this Golden Mushroom Chicken. ![]()
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