Cooking Blog
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
My Chinese sparerib “riblets” recipe is a quick appetizer or side dish that is cooked in a wok or braising pan. This recipe is great on a KETO diet and easy to prepare. I have created this recipe by adding additional ingredients to the traditional …
Asian braised short ribs when slow cooked for hours, are tender, juicy and literally fall-off the-bone great! Make sure you get a meaty short rib with delicious marbled fat. This creates a lot of flavor in a small bite and is flavorful on a KETO …
Chinese takeout restaurant favorites have a “westernized” menu of egg foo young, chow mein, beef and broccoli, egg drop soup and egg rolls…the typical cooked dishes are full of oil and sodium. I’ve prepared a vegetable egg foo young recipe “take – out” version at home that is low fat, high protein, low carb dinner option –cooked in 30 minutes. Use your imagination and load your stuffed omelettes with extra vegetables on a KETO DIET!
Egg foo young is derived from fu yung egg slices, a mainland Chinese recipe from Guangdong, literally meaning “Hibiscus egg”. This dish is prepared with beaten eggs and most often minced ham. Most traditional Asian restaurants use up leftovers a combination of minced vegetables, eggs and small pieces of meat, seafood or poultry cooked into an omelet-style pancake.
The Chinese omelette egg mixture usually has some type of protein (prawns, shrimp, lobster or pork) with traditional Asian vegetables: bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, cabbage, water chestnuts.
Most Chinese “Take Out” restaurants prepare a well-folded omelette with non-egg ingredients embedded in the egg mixture. It is covered with a sauce or gravy. American-Chinese restaurants in the Midwest serve a sandwich which is an egg foo young patty served with mayonnaise, dill pickles with lettuce, tomato between two slices of white bread
EGG MIXTURE
COOKING EGG MIXTURE
GRAVY PREPARATION
Do you cook pork chops that are dry and flavorless? This “SPICY LEMON PORK CHOP” recipe makes a juicy and tender pork chop full of flavor with little preparation time. Only 35 minutes and a great meal on a KETO DIET! COOKING TIPS FOR PORK …
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 …
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 Asian dish. How many times have you eaten at an Asian restaurant and ordered additional sides of rice…overeaten more than one cup of measured rice (equivalent to consuming a few days worth of CARBS in one sitting). You leave feeling bloated and stodgy for hours!
The previous food blogs I’ve posted need a side dish of “RICED CAULIFLOWER” to sop up all the wonderful natural juices and flavors.
KETOGENIC RICED CAULIFLOWER is “faux rice”, or low carbohydrate cauliflower rice. One large head of cauliflower will yield 6-8 cups of cauliflower rice. When making the rice for your family, allow one cup per person as a small side dish. it is a quick and easy way to add an Asian staple on a low carbohydrate diet. Cauliflower is low in carbs, high in fiber, full of Vitamin A, B6 and C. I’ve added several fresh vegetables that add a “crispness” & “color” to the dish. For a hearty one dish meal, add additional vegetables…use your imagination!
The easiest way to chop the cauliflower is to use a food processor (pulse button) or hand grate with a food grater. For a quick alternative, buy a bag of pre-riced cauliflower in the frozen produce section.
Cauliflower has 25 calories per cup vs. 218 calories for a cup of cooked brown rice (carbs: 5 g per cup for cauliflower and 46g for a cup of brown rice).
Cauliflower 1 cup serving: 5.3g carbs, 2.5g fibre, 2.4g sugar, Vit A 0.3%, Vit B6 10%, Vit c 77%, calcium 2.2%, iron 2.4%, magnesium 4%
White rice 1 cup cooked : 53.2g carbs, 0.6g fibre, 0.7g sugar, Vit A 0%, Vit B6 15%, Vit C 0%, calcium 0.6%, iron 15%, magnesium 21%
Brown rice 1 cup cooked : 44.8g carbs, 3.5g fibre, 0.7g sugar, Vit A 0%, Vit B6 15%, Vit C 0%, calcium 2%, iron 4.5%, magnesium 21% (% of your daily requirement)
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 …
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) or brown sugar, fresh ginger, raw honey, rice vinegar, red chili paste, & liquid smoke). After simmering the chicken, I put the whole pot of ingredients into a container and refrigerated overnight. 24 hours is enough time to add more flavor into the skin and chicken meat. I use chicken thighs because it is more moist and won’t dry out during the second step of oven roasting to make the skin crisp. Any chicken parts can be used (chicken wings and breast meat) but don’t over cook the chicken parts in the first step of simmering in the pot.
The crispy skin is my favorite part of the chicken (great in KETO diet) with the savory flavors! The chicken meat is flavorful and just melts off the bone. This recipe provides enough chicken for 8 persons (2 pieces each). This recipe would be enough liquid to cook 2 whole chickens.
I have not tried putting the chicken pieces on a BBQ grill instead of the oven. I’m sure this would taste great grilled?… you would have to watch the heat so the soy and sugars wouldn’t burn on the grill.
