My name is Chen Jing. Welcome to my Chinese Home Kitchen!
A Chinese bamboo steamer is an inexpensive and versatile cooking utensil. When my microwave oven shorted out, I soon found that using a bamboo steamer to reheat leftovers is far more economical than a new, costly microwave, and the steam heat keeps food tender and tasty.
Today we use green radish (green daikon, or Raphanus sativus) to make Chinese Green Radish (luóbo) Balls. It is a simple and fun recipe.
The most common protein in Chinese cuisine is pork, but a balanced Chinese meal always includes vegetables and soup. Jing has provided many delicious vegetarian Chinese recipes that can serve as a tasty main dish.
Chinese sauces are lighter than Western gravy or stew, and coat the ingredients evenly. Most Chinese sauces are easy to make. This post and video shows you how to thicken your sauces.
Dry-blanching, or blanching in oil, is a Chinese cooking technique to prepare ingredients for stir-frying or simmering. Starch, or starch with egg, is used to impart a slippery or velvety texture to dry-blanched meats.
The name of this dish is vegetarian stir-fried three crisps. The main ingredients are three kinds of vegetables with a crispy texture: carrots, potatoes, and green peppers. The rich color combination makes this dish healthy and beautiful.
Shredded Pork in Beijing Sauce, or Peking Shredded Pork, as popular as Peking Duck in northern China, is much easier to cook at home. Unlike many Chinese recipes that use fatty pork, like pork belly, this recipe uses pork tenderloin, or other lean cuts of pork.
This is another Chinese home recipe from my childhood. Scrambled eggs with garlic chives is a common recipe in the family kitchen, simple to cook with few ingredients.
Pork is common in Chinese homes, especially in the south. This diced pork & vegetables dish is slippery-coated in a marinade and dry-blanched, then stir-fried. Though I learned this at New Oriental, the taste reminds me of the dishes I ate as a child in Guangxi.
This Chinese beef recipe uses dry blanching and slippery-coating to make the beef tender. What is slippery-coating? Well, join me in making this recipe to learn this simple Chinese cooking technique.
This authentic Cantonese shrimp lo mein is delicious and easy to prepare. You can save a lot of time using jumbo or extra-large shrimp. Unlike many of our recipes which use chili peppers, this mild dish relies emphasizes the taste of the shrimp, and the sweetness of the carrots and bell pepper.
This simple Chinese fried pumpkin recipe, Sweet Pumpkin Fries make a tasty snack or dessert, high in fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants.
I was born in Guangxi. As long as I remember, I have liked cooking. When I was a child, my dream was to become a gourmet and travel the world to taste the food of various countries. My ambition is to become a chef. The kitchen is my partner. There are many kinds of Chinese cuisine, there are 8 kinds, reflecting the richness and diversity of Chinese geography and history. I am very happy to share with you Chinese cuisine and cultural traditions.