Recipes tagged "Fresh Sauce"
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【Sichuan】Mapo Tofu
The legendary Mapo, whose real surname is Chen, made a living by making tofu. During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, Wanfu Bridge in Chengdu was a gathering place for merchants. Mrs. Chen opened a tofu shop here. Because of her excellent cooking skills, the tofu she made was white and tender, and the cooked tofu dishes had a unique flavor. Therefore, the business became more and more prosperous. Unexpectedly, this actually aroused her jealousy against the proprietress of a tofu shop. One day, a passer-by came to Mrs. Chen's shop carrying two kilograms of freshly minced beef and sat down. The proprietress of the tofu shop opposite took advantage of her youth and beauty to make secret glances at the guest. The customer was so surprised that she forgot about the bag of minced beef and walked straight to her door. Mrs. Chen felt angry and annoyed when she saw this. At this time, a few more customers came in. When they saw the minced beef on the table, they said they wanted to eat beef with fried tofu. Mrs. Chen didn't want to use other people's minced beef, but the customer was in urgent need of it, so she cooked the minced beef with tofu for the customer. Unexpectedly, the dish was fragrant and flavorful. More and more people ate it, and the business was extremely hot and continuous. The proprietress of the grocery store opposite was angry and jealous when she saw her, so she spoke ill of Mrs. Chen in front of her customers and called her ugly and pockmarked. Mrs. Chen was a generous person. Faced with all this, she dismissed it, kept her cool, and worked hard to run her own business. Later, she simply hung a big sign of Chen Mapo Tofu on the door of her house. Later, the reputation of this shop became more and more popular, and Mapo Tofu, a popular delicacy, became famous all over the world, making it the most famous tofu dish among the people. The first time I ate Mapo Tofu, I felt it was very numb and spicy, but I would eat two bowls of rice as long as this dish is available. Tofu has high nutritional value and can be made in various ways. This Mapo Tofu dish is spicy and is one of the Sichuan specialties.
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【Sichuan】Wine Pepper Chicken
The rattan pepper chicken is fresh yet overbearing. Spicy and slightly fragrant. Let you eat a piece and never forget it. Vine pepper has a very high nutritional value. Vine pepper is also known as oil pepper, fragrant pepper, bamboo leaf pepper, referred to as bamboo leaf pepper, also called wild pepper and mountain pepper. Vine pepper is an evergreen grass plant with a unique aroma and taste. It belongs to the Rutaceae family and is an important oil and spice tree species. It is three to nine feet tall. The trees are dark gray, mostly thorny, hairless, with single compound leaves clustered in clusters. The flowers are small and numerous. The fruit oil is mostly shiny, and its flavor is fragrant and volatile. The taste is fragrant and numb, aromatic but slightly numb. Vine pepper also has anti-fatigue, anti-hypoxia, anti-asthmatic, antioxidant, and analgesic effects. Vine pepper oil can inhibit the contraction of tracheal smooth muscles and has a certain antiasthmatic effect. The total alkaloids of wild prickly ash can inhibit the decrease of cortical dynorphin after acute cerebral ischemia injury in rats, and have a certain protective effect on brain cell function. Research shows that Zanthoxylum bungeanum also has anti-hypoxia and anti-fatigue effects. Vine pepper seeds are a by-product of Vine pepper seasoning, and their content accounts for about half of Vine pepper. Pepper seeds contain a hard shell with a layer of oil on the surface, which is called skin oil; the shell contains kernels, and the kernels also contain oil, which is called kernel oil. I especially like to eat cold dishes in the summer. Once I bought a piece of rattan pepper chicken and brought it home. My family said it was not delicious at all and the soup was watery and tasteless at all. I never bought it again. Later, my colleague came back from a business trip in Leshan and brought back a local authentic rattan pepper chicken. I tasted one piece and it was very delicious. It tasted very authentic and delicious. After eating one piece, I wanted to eat a second piece. Chicken is indispensable on every household's dining table during the Chinese New Year. Every year, the chicken on the dining table is served cold with red oil and chili. This time I suddenly thought of the vine pepper chicken I had eaten before, so I made such an authentic and special vine pepper chicken on the New Year’s Eve dinner table.
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【Sichuan】White Pork with Garlic Sauce
Garlic white meat belongs to the Sichuan cuisine. It was once popular and praised by people. This dish requires careful selection of ingredients, appropriate heat, good knife skills, fragrant seasonings, and hot slices to eat cold. Mix it with chopsticks when eating. With the heat, the aroma of soy sauce, chili oil and garlic hits your nose directly, whetting your appetite. The garlic is rich in flavor, fat but not greasy. I have been a picky eater since I was little, not eating fat meat but only eating lean meat. Every time I eat meat, I quietly pull off the fat and throw it into the trash can. So I have always been thin but not gaining weight, and I feel uncomfortable whenever I eat fat. Later, a friend and I went to a Sichuan restaurant for dinner and ordered the signature dish, white pork with garlic paste. The strong garlic and spicy flavor make the whole piece of white meat taste less fatty. The white meat with garlic paste, one of the Sichuan dishes, is fat but not greasy. The strong garlic flavor and the fragrance of cucumber make this dish very popular among everyone. This spicy garlic white pork dish is a must-have on the New Year’s Eve dinner table.
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