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Sichuan cuisine (romanized as Szechwan cuisine) is a style of Chinese cooking originating from Sichuan Province. It has bold flavors, particularly the pungency and spiciness resulting with preparing dishes with garlic and chili peppers, and the unique flavor of cooking with Sichuan peppercorn. Other well …
Chinese chicken salad is great for using leftover roasted chicken pieces, whole rotisserie chicken or boneless grilled chicken breast. Using your imagination, you can add many fresh ingredients (contemporary textured vegetables). Use Arugula, swiss chard, spinach besides the basic iceberg shredded lettuce. The sweet-tangy and …
I have taken the traditional Korean barbeque Asian flavor marinade and chosen a non-traditional cut of meat, a chuck roast, generally a tougher cut for this recipe. This flavorful marinade breaks down the tough connective tissues resulting in a flavorful seared tender beef covered with onions, mushrooms and ginger and a savory-sweet gravy melting in your mouth with each bite. On a Ketosis Diet, this easy recipe is great for beginners and delivers incredible results every time. Chuck roasts are inexpensive cuts of beef that cook at a low temperature for a few hours. Serve healthy vegetables on the side with the roast and you have a one-dish meal prepared.
There are so many regional varieties of BBQ around the world. Korean BBQ apart from the traditional American BBQ, has an Asian flavor of soy sauce, garlic, ginger, sesame oil and sometimes a distinct “sweet” taste of ground pear and honey. Korean BBQ is one cuisine that is quickly increasing in popularity across the United States. American BBQ styles include cuts of pork, ribs, brisket, or chicken and is dry rub or basted in BBQ sauces, slowly roasted then smoked. Korean BBQ will generally center on beef and pork that is marinated, sliced, grilled or pan seared. A well-known traditional Korean barbeque dish Bulgogi is served at many Korean restaurants.
Generally cooking a chuck roast or rump roast, 3-pound roast cooks 3-3.5 hours, cooking a 4-pound roast for 3.5-4 hours and a large 5-pound roast for 4.5-5 hours. Check the roast with a fork, if it is tough, the roast needs more time to cook. Always keep the top covered to ensure even cooking and a constant hot temperature. Select a roast that has marbling in it- this cut carries flavor and helps make the gravy flavorful and mouth-watering!
Add soy sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar, rice wine and brown sugar to large mixing bowl.
Whisk marinade mixture until brown sugar has dissolved.
Add sliced ginger and garlic to marinade and mix.
Add spicy chili sauce if desired to add a hint of spicy flavor. Mix marinade to combine all ingredients.
Clean two brown onions and thinly slice and add to marinade.
Marinate chuck roast.
Add sliced onions to marinade and cover chuck roast. Refrigerate for at least 8 hours.
Chuck roast marinated for two days.
Add chuck roast to large dutch oven and brown all sides of roast. Add garlic pieces and sliced onions to pan and caramelize.
Remove onions and garlic pieces after caramelizing.
Add beef broth and additional water if needed to cover all of the meat. Add garlic – onion – ginger mixture on top of the meat.
Cover with a foil lid and seal well. Cook for 2-3 hours until tender.
Remove roast from pan and let rest for 30 minutes.
Take remaining juices and thicken to form a gravy to serve with meat.
Pour gravy over meat and heat in 250 degree oven 5-10 minutes. *Watch carefully that the meat doesn’t burn from the slight sugar in the gravy.
Serve pot roast with fresh veggies and quinoa…a great meal on a KETO Diet.
This quick to prepare Bok Choy stir-fry recipe only takes 15 minutes and produces a wonderful vegan-friendly side dish. Add meat and additional aromatics to the dish and turn this one-dish meal into a quick entree in no time. Add this flavorful stir-fry veggie recipe …
This flavor-packed roasted chicken uses a “wet” curry rub. When marinating, some of the liquid will evaporate and the spices will bind to the food. This recipe has curry powder, cumin, garlic powder, fresh ginger root and fresh garlic. There is a small amount of …
Chinese Long Beans (also known as “Chinese Green Beans”, “Yard-Long Beans”, “Chopstick Beans” “Snake Bean” or “Pea Bean”) are grown in subtropical/tropical climates and most widely grown in warmer parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia and Southern China. This bean is a staple vegetable in Asian cuisine. The crisp, tender pods are eaten both fresh and cooked. They are at their best when young and slender. They are sometimes cut into short sections for cooking uses. As a West Indian dish, they are often stir-fried with potatoes and shrimp. In Odisha, India, they are used to make a variety of dishes, especially a sour dish (judunga besara) cooking along with mustard sauce and lime. They are also used in Chinese cuisine and Kerala cuisine.
In Malaysian cuisine, they are often stir-fried with chilli and shrimp paste or used in cooked salads (kerabu). Another popular option is to chop them into short sections and fry them in an omelette. In the Philippines, they are widely eaten stir-fried with soy sauce, garlic, and hot pepper and in an all-vegetable dish called utan or are stewed in bagoong-based dishes such as pinakbet and dinengdeng.
Chinese Long Beans are crunchy, chewy and hearty. The simplicity of this recipe – combining stir frying and steaming in just a couple of steps. These Chinese beans can withstand intense spices and chilies. Quickly stir – fry these beans as a “veggie” dish or add shrimp, pork, beef or chicken in a chili and black bean sauce. Cook these beans up quickly at home for a perfect healthy side or a one dish weeknight meal in only 10 minutes! I enjoy cooking this flavorful stir-fry in a spicy sauce that can be poured over quinoa (healthy alternative to steam white rice).
WHAT ARE CHINESE LONG BEANS?
The asparagus bean is a legume cultivated for its edible green pods containing immature seeds, like the green bean.
Chinese Long Beans come in long bundles – typically they are 12” – 30” long, hence the nickname, “Yard Long Beans.” The best tasting Chinese Long Beans are young, 12” – 16” long. Purchase beans that have no black spots, flexible but not limp and do not look dry and thick.
Chinese Long Beans taste like the European-American style of green beans with a sharper flavor and a crunchier texture than American snap beans. These beans are incredibly healthy and available in most supermarkets, farmers’ markets and Asian markets. You can add heat with spicy chilies or keep it mild with a plain stir-fry marinade sauce or black bean sauce – both ways stir fried are delicious.
Have all your ingredients ready to go before you start stir – frying as cooking moves fast!
CHINESE LONG BEANS, SWEET RED ONION, SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS
CUT LONG BEANS INTO 3″ SEGMENTS
WASH LONG BEANS
MARINATE SHRIMP
STIR – FRY SHRIMP
CLEAN WOK, ADD 2 TBSP. GRAPESEED OIL AND HEAT HIGH UNTIL OIL SMOKES, ADD SLICED RED ONION.
CARAMELIZE ONIONS
ADD CHINESE LONG BEANS TO CARAMELIZED ONIONS AND STIR-FRY
ADD SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS AND STIR-FRY WITH BEANS
RETURN SHRIMP AND JUICES TO WOK AND COOK WITH BEANS
STIR-FRY UNTIL SAUCE IS SLIGHTLY THICKENED, ADD CHICKEN STOCK OR WATER IF NEEDED FOR ADDITIONAL SAUCE
SERVE OVER KETO RICED CAULIFLOWER OR QUINOA
If you love Thai cooking as much as I do… prepare my quick KETO and gluten free recipe cooked in a braising pan. A flavorful, savory, creamy chicken and vegetable dish in one hour. Thai curry refers to dishes in the Thai cuisine that are …
A quick one dish meal on a KETO DIET… I enjoy cooking colorful food, don’t you? I took a tomato based flavor and created an Asian flavored ground chicken stuffed bell pepper recipe – Spice up your life with this recipe. The spicy savory chili-black …
Explore this quick to prepare recipe with a wonderful Asian- inspired BBQ flavor…slow roasted tender pork with a crusty flavorful fat top. KETO Cooked.
Pork shoulder, also referred to as pork butt, starts out as a mass of tough meat (tough connective tissue) wrapped in a thick fat skin. My recipe starts the pork in a high heat oven to crisp up the skin and sear the meat, then cooking slowly in a low oven for a leisurely eight-hour roast. I use a le creuset braising pan or large dutch oven. Slow cooking a pork shoulder gently breaks down the marbling resulting in mouth-watering flavorful tender meat.
Serve your pork with a pan sauce, using the juices and left over cooked marinade (drain the fat), add one cup of white wine and chicken stock. Add a chili oil and make a sweet and spicy or Chinese style BBQ flavor sauce. 
This filling one-pot “Chinese Three Ingredients Soup” dinner is quick and easy, prepared in 20 minutes, KETO cooked with broccoli slaw instead of Chinese mein noodles in a simple aromatic broth that is packed with flavor. In moments you’ve got a steaming hot bowl of …
Eggplant is considered a KETO vegetable. Eggplant is incredibly versatile and can be easily incorporated into your KETO diet. Eggplant recipes can be baked, roasted, grilled or sautéed. This vegetable can reduce your carbohydrate and calorie intake and increase the fiber – nutrient content …
STIR-FRYING, a continuous stirring-scooping-tossing motion to ensure even cooking…a quick way to cook thin uniform pieces of meat and vegetables in a small amount of fat in an open pan– a variation on sautéing. Finishing the dish by adding natural juices to the pan, letting the liquid bubble and thicken and coat the ingredients.
A GREAT WAY TO COOK ON A KETO DIET…USE YOUR IMAGINATION WITH DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS OF MEAT, FISH AND VEGETABLES.
My grandmother never had a recipe and knew the dish by smell and feel, sensing exactly when the pan was hot enough to add the meat, or how much ginger and soy sauce…enough to flavor the HOT blistering oil that she poured over the meat and vegetables. A wonderful aroma that filled the house…the ultimate childhood comfort food.
COOKING TIPS ON STIR-FRYING****
You ask is lamb good for a KETO diet? You’re good to have meat on a ketogenic diet and this includes fatty meat such as lamb, pork and poultry with the skin on. This is good news for the taste buds as fat helps …
What is your favorite way to eat rice? Plain white or fried with soy sauce? Chinese cooking and a side of rice! Rice is incredibly high in carbs and isn’t nutritious at all…other than to sop up all the wonderful gravy and sauces to any …
I transformed a classic stir fry dish that can be quickly prepared and cooked while on a healthy “KETO” diet. Cantonese beef tomato stir-fry is one of my favorite “comfort food recipes”. This dish is often served at Chinese restaurants as a “rice plate” (saucy, gravy entrée poured over rice) for a quick meal. The typical flank steak sliced into 1/4-inch thick pieces has a sauce base of ketchup, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, ground pepper, fresh ginger, garlic and large ripe tomatoes cut into wedges. Most Asian tomato-soy sauce bases are full of ketchup and sugar, omit them from your diet.
My version of the spicy sausage tomato stir-fry is a healthy alternative to the beef tomato stir-fry recipe. I added more vegetables; colorful bell peppers and celery to the stir-fry. The original recipe already had sliced onions, ginger, garlic and tomatoes. Use your imagination and add additional vegetables to the stir-fry mixture. 
My maternal grandfather (lovingly called “gramps”) often cooked this stir fry tomato dish with a “spicy twist”. Gramps was raised in Mississippi and often cooked with a Southern “spicyness” to his Asian cooking. He substituted a “spicy sausage” alternative to the sliced flank steak. My grandparents owned a grocery store with a full deli & fine meats butcher shop. Gramps always ground his own sausage and ground beef. I have fond memories of spending time with him at the butcher shop. Unfortunately, the original sausage recipe was never written down to add to our family heirloom recipe collection.
Sushi on a low carb diet is a challenge! Usually, low carb sushi choices are limited. Most sushi is high in carbs, because of the rice and the different “sweet” sauces. When eating at sushi restaurants, you really have one keto friendly option, which is …
I took my grandmother’s simple soy sauce chicken recipe (Cantonese home-style dish) of soy sauce, garlic, star anise, water and boiling the chicken braised in a heated bath. Simmer and it is done! I updated this recipe with additional ingredients (organic coconut sugar (KETO DIET) …
