October, enjoy autumn comfort food
A bit about your dishes
When the cooler autumn wind puts red gold and yellow on the trees, Chinese people start to put warming and comforting food on their dinner tables, to nourish the body and prepare for the colder days to come.
Fine Noodles in Chicken Soup
Since wheat arrived in China from west Asia in around 4-5000 years ago, it has been important in Northern Chinese people’s diet. Noodle is one of the popular shapes it takes.
Curry Veggie Fry Rice
If you are thinking a big pool of curry sauce sitting on top of a bowl of fry rice, you are in for a bit of surprise! Fry rice should be dry and fluffy, with each grain separated and loaded with flavours.
Fried Vegetarian Dumplings
Although dumplings are mainly regarded as northern Chinese food, Cantonese people made them with different fillings, steamed then fried, a lovely dim sum dish.
Beef in Hot Pot
Hot Pot is a dish Chinese people enjoy a lot in colder weather. You cook the vegetable and meat in a boiling soup then dip into sauces, before enjoying the hot and steamy mouthful. This will certainly warm you up in a cold evening!
Cola Chicken Wings
Another uncomplicated and delicious Cantonese dish, the caramelised sauce coated the chicken wings and give it a wonderfully balanced sweet and savoury flavour.
Nutty Eggs with Spinach
The humble eggs made into lovely golden ribbons, when mixed with soft spinach and the fragrant sauce, it will suddenly wake up your taste buds!
Cabbage and Glass Noodles Stir Fry
This vegetarian dish has very simple ingredients and depends on the intense heat and timing of the cooking to create the magical taste and texture. Textbook Chinese stir fry cooking.
Jasmine Rice
Plain jasmine rice with a subtle aroma accompanies the flavoursome dishes perfectly.
Golden Gui (æ¡‚)Flower Basque cake
Golden osmanthus flower in an unique flavour in Chinese desserts, it blooms in autumn and the sweet fragrance drifts through cities and towns. The sweet Chinese rice wine is a perfect complement to the osmanthus flowers in this cheese cake recipe.