Braised Chicken with Chestnuts🌰栗子燒雞🐔

Braised Chicken with Chestnuts is a traditional Shanghainese dish, and Fall is the best season for Chestnuts. Although fresh chestnuts used to be commonly used in this dish, frozen fresh chestnuts are more readily available in the States, you can get it from the frozen section of almost all the Asian supermarkets.

Ingredients:

1 lb chicken pieces (bite sizes)

1/2 frozen chestnuts

some ginger slices

chopped garlic

chopped scallions

dark soy sauce

cooking wine

Instructions:

1.Heat oil in a pot or pan, add ginger & garlic for about 3 mins.

2.Add chicken in it, and add a spoon of cooking wine, make sure you stir it. 

3.Add the chestnuts, and add 2-3 spoons of dark soy sauce (depends on how you like it), keep stirring it,  and add a bowl of water.

4.Put the lid on, use low heat to cook for another 25 mins.

5.Add some peppers if you like, and put the chopped scallions on top to decorate the dish!

Yum yum!!!

Coca-Cola Chicken Wings💟可樂雞翅🐔

Coke Chicken Wings is a popular home-style dish in southern China. Since Coca-cola has the sweet flavor and the sticky texture when it’s cooked, it’s an absolutely great/creative ingredient to use in this dish. This dish also requires many other ingredients, but it’s so worth it!!! You will definitely make it very delicious as long as you have the right ingredients 🙂 Just follow the steps!

Ingredients:

1 lb chicken wings

1 can coca-cola

some ginger in slices

3 star anise（八角）

some dried cumin （茴香）

3 bay leaves （香叶）

2 tea spoons of cooking wine （紹興酒）

3 tea spoons of dark soy sauce

salt

Instructions:

1.Boil a pot of water, clean the chicken wings in the boiling water for 5 mins.

2.Place a wok over heat until hot, add cooking oil, and stir-fry the chicken wings with star anise for about 8 mins till they look like this:

3.Add the coke, dark soy sauce, cooking wine, ginger and all the other ingredients that you prepared.

4.Let it boil using high heat, and stir it well.

5.Turn the heat to medium or low, and cook them for another 20 mins, you will see the chicken wings are already turn reddish.

6.You will know it’s ready when the cooked mixture is almost all absorbed by the chicken wings.

7.YUM YUM!!!!!! enjoy 😀

Peach Lemon Soda 🍋白桃檸檬汽水🍑

White peach is one of my favorite fruits, I LOVE all the drinks & desserts that are made of peach!! So here is one very simple peach drink that I recently discovered :p and it tastes so goooood!!

Ingredients:

1 can of soda

1 white peach (the soft ones)

1/2 lemon

some sugar

Instructions:

1.Cut the peach into tiny pieces and place them in a bowl.

2.Add 2 teaspoons of sugar

3.Add the lemon juice into the bowl, and stir well with the peach and sugar.

4.Soak the peach purees with the lemon juice and sugar for about 15 mins.

5.Mix with the Soda. Done !

Pig’s Feet Soup with Pear 🐷豬蹄雪梨燉湯🍐

Pig’s feet might not be common in the western dishes, (and it might sound weird), but it’s very popular in Chinese food. The pig’s feet contains lots of collagen, which is in the skin helps in firmness, suppleness and constant renewal of skin cells. It is vital for skin elasticity.

Pear is one of the best fruits for the dry season, it helps prevent the throat problem and nourishes the throat. Pear can really bring out the flavor of the soup, and make this soup thicker and flavorful. And I also think it’s incredible that pear and pig’s feet can be such a great combo for the soup!

Ingredients:

1 Pear

1 lb pig’s feet

1 teaspoon of dark vinegar

Instructions:

1.Prepare a pot of boiling water, Clean the pig’s feet by putting them in the boiling water for 5 mins.

2. Add oil in a pan, with median heat, fry the pig’s feet for about 10 mins. (This is the essential step which helps to make the soup thick and whiter later)

3.Prepare a pot of water, add a teaspoon of vinegar in the pot. Turn the heat to high, and put the pig’s feet in. Let it cook for at least 50 mins, so we can get the collagen in the soup. 

4.Meanwhile, prepare the pear, and cut it in slices.

5.Add the pear in the soup, and let it boil for another 20 mins. 

6.Add a bit of salt, and it’s ready!!!

You will definitely find relief on your throat after drinking the soup!

Enjoy 🙂