Yam Basket Recipe (1)
Ingredients: Serves 7
Cooking oil
800g yam (cut into approximately 1/2cm thick and 4cm long straight strips)
1 tsp white pepper
1 tsp corn starch
1 tsp chopped garlic and ginger
200g chicken breast cut into cubes and marinate with 1 tsp five spice powder
100g button mushrooms
2 pieces Chinese mushrooms (soak in hot water until soft and cut into strips)
100g young corn
1 big onion
1 carrot
1 tomato
250ml. water
sugar, salt to taste
Method:
Mix well yam with pepper and corn starch. Heat oil in a wok. Use a 9" diameter metallic sieve, arrange the yam strips. Put another smaller metallic sieve on top of the arranged yam strips. Deep fry until the strips are crispy.
Leave 4 tbsp oil in the wok, fry garlic and ginger, add in the chicken, fry for about 4 minutes, add the water, cover and simmer until chicken is tender. Add button mushroom, Chinese mushrooms, young corn, onions and carrot. Cook for further 5 minutes. Sprinkle pepper and a little sugar. Mix well. Add salt to taste. Pour the chicken mixture into the yam basket. Serve hot.
Chili Shrimps In Yam Basket Recipe (2)
Category: Meat & Seafood
Style: Chinese
Description:
Chili Shrimps In Yam Basket Recipe
Ingredients:
1 lb medium size shrimps (remove shell)
3 tbsp of cooking oil
2 tbsp ground onions
2 tsp of ground chilies
1.5 chopped garlic or chopped ginger
2 tbsp tomato sauce
1.5 tsp chili sauce
1 tsp tamarind mixed with 1/2 pint of water (strain well)
1 tbsp corn flour
1/2 lettuce (cut into thin strips)
Ingredients For Making Basket:
1/2 lb yam (peeled and cut into thin strips)
salt to taste
1 tbsp corn flour and salt
1 lb cooking oil for deep frying
Directions:
Peel the yams and cut them into thin strips. Season with corn flour and salt. Spread 5 tbsp of yam strips on to a bigger sieve. Using a smaller sieve press the yam strips together. Fry in deep oil for 5 to 10 minutes to form a nest. 2 or 3 nests can be made from 1 lb of yam. Place the yam basket on an oval dish. Encircle with thin strips of lettuce. Heat cooing oil in pan. Put in ground onions, chopped garlic and fry for about 2 minutes. Add in ground chilies and fry the shrimps together with garlic, ginger and onions. Mix in tamarind water, sweet chili sauce, tomato sauce, sugar and fry for 3 minutes. Thicken gravy with corn flour and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes. Put chili shrimps in the yam basket. Serve while hot.
Chicken In Yam Basket Recipe (3)
Category: Meat & Seafood
Style: Chinese
Description:
Chicken In Yam Basket Recipe
Ingredients:
1/2 lb of yams, sliced thinly
8 oz water chestnuts
6 oz chicken meat, cubes
1/2 cup mixed beans
Cooking oil for frying
2 oz cashew nuts, roasted
1 tsp onions, chopped
1 tsp sesame oil
Salt and pepper to taste
1/4 lb button mushrooms, sliced thinly
1 tsp tapioca flour
Directions:
Season the yam strips with tapioca flour, salt and pepper. Spread 3 or 4 tbsp of yam strips on to a big sieve. Use a smaller sieve and press the yam strips together. Fry in hot oil for 15 minutes, so as to form a nest. Heat 1 tbsp cooking oil in frying pan. Add onion. Fry until soft. Add chicken, salt, pepper and sesame oil. Then put in water chestnuts, mixed beans and button mushrooms. Fry for 3 minutes. Place the chicken mixture into the yam nests. Garnish with cashew nuts. Serve hot.
Sweet And Sour Beancurd In Yam Basket (5)
Cuisine Chinese • Recipes • Restaurants
Type of Dish Central Dish
Cooking Method Deep-fry
Ingredients
200g yam
10g flour
A pinch of salt and sugar
60g pineapple, sliced
60g green bell pepper
60g red chillies
1 soft tofu
10g oil
100ml sweet and sour sauce (tong chou)
Sweet and Sour Sauce:
80g white vinegar
100g pin tong
60g tomato sauce
5 seen mui chee (sour plum, deseeded)
30g Lea Perrins sauce
2 slices lemon
Method
To make the sauce, mix all ingredients for the sauce together and cook until sugar dissolves.
Steam yam and mash it. Mix with flour, salt and sugar, and shape into a basket. Deep-fry the yam basket (fatt put) until golden brown. Set aside.
Dice soft tofu and deep-fry till golden brown.
Stir-fry pineapple, green bell pepper and red chillies. Add fried tofu and sweet and sour sauce.
Place all the fried ingredients into the yam basket and serve.
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