Char Siu (Chinese BBQ Pork)

Below are the three dishes I’ll teach in the cooking class this evening.

Char Siu

Nutrition value for 1/12 portion of recipe:

Calorie 135, Fat 5.4 g, Carbohydrate 8 g, Fibre 0 g, Sugar 8 g, Cholesterol 36 mg, Sodium 273 mg, Protein 12 g.

Char Siu Burger

Nutrition value for 1 burger:

Calorie 321, Fat 15.5 g, Carbohydrate 24 g, Fibre 1 g, 14 g, Cholesterol 57 mg, Sodium 622 mg, Protein 22 g.

Crispy Shell with Char Siu and Vegetable

Nutrition value for 2 shells:

Calorie 101, Fat 6 g, Carbohydrate 7 g, Fibre 1 g, Sugar 3 g, Cholesterol 13 mg, Sodium 185 mg, Protein 5 g.

Stir-fried Spaghetti with Char Siu and Vegetables

Nutrition value for 1/6 portion of recipe:

Calorie 347, Fat 12.9 g, Carbohydrate 40 g, Fibre 2 g, Sugar 9 g, Cholesterol 93 mg, Sodium 711 mg, Protein 17 g.

See my related posts:

• Dishes Using Char Siu in My Cooking Classes
• Light Soy Sauce and Dark Soy Sauce
• Oyster Sauce
• Other cooking class ingredients

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Chicken Wings Classic

Ingredients

24 chicken wings (about 4 lb)
1/2 to 1 tsp cayenne pepper
1/3 cup Tabasco
2 tbsp butter, melted
2 tsp cider vinegar
Carrot and celery sticks
Blue-cheese dressing, bottled or home-made

Method

1. Preheat oven to 450ºF.
2. Line a baking sheet with foil and place a wire rack on top. Cut wings in half at joint and remove tips.
3. Place wings in a large bowl. Sprinkle with 1/3 tsp cayenne or, if you like wings really fiery, use 1 tsp. Toss wings to evenly distribute cayenne.
4. In a small bowl, stir Tabasco with butter and vinegar. Pour mixture over wings and toss well to coat.
5. Spread wings out on wire rack but do not crowd. If wings are large, you may need 2 baking sheets to hold them. Bake in centre of 450ºF oven until skin is crispy and brown, about 1 hour. (If wings are on a rack, they don’t need to be turned.) Remove from oven and serve with carrot and celery sticks or coleslaw and blue-cheese dressing for dipping.

Makes 24 wings.

Source: Chatelaine

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Chinese Home-cooked Breakfast

Noodle Soup with Char Siu, Fried Egg and Vegetables

Shikai Kazari Maki Sushi How-to

1. Attach one half piece of a 1/2-sheet nori to one end of a 1/2-sheet nori by a few grains of rice. Mix 150 g of white sushi rice with 50 g of masago. Spread the mixed rice on the nori sheet.

2. Roll by hand from one end to the other to form a cylinder.

3. Cut the cylinder into four quarters.

4. Place a 1.5 cm square fried egg strip of same length as the cylinder in the center of the four quarters. Place the square log on one end of a 1/2-sheet nori. Roll up the matt to form the shikai roll. Cut into 4 pieces of equal thickness.

See my related post:

• Collection of Kazari Maki Sushi How-to