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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 …
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
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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 …
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 …
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 to add a lot of flavor!
My favorite way to cook lamb is to add spices (coriander, cumin and turmeric, ginger and dried hot chilies) or ‘curry powder’ and pan-sear the lamb. For the sake of time I cook this fast, easy and very flavorful way to prepare boneless leg of lamb.
Cooking lamb pieces is very similar to cooking a filet mignon steak. In fact, this recipe could easily substitute a filet if you don’t have fresh lamb. But, if you get the chance, I highly recommend trying this pan-seared curry – thyme lamb steak recipe. It’s delicious, super easy, and ready in just 25 minutes. Hard to beat that!
Curry is the use of combinations of spices or herbs and the term is generally limited to dishes prepared in a sauce. Curry powder is a commercially prepared mixture of spices (coriander, cumin, turmeric & ginger), is largely a ‘Western’ creation. Dishes called ‘curry’ may contain fish, meat, poultry, or shellfish, either alone or in combination with vegetables. Since the mid-20th century, curries of many national styles have become popular and have become part of international fusion cuisine (Indian, Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Africa & West Indies).
I’ve cooked ‘curries’ which may be either ‘dry’ or ‘wet’. Dry curries are cooked with very little liquid and allowed to evaporate, leaving the other ingredients coated with the mixture. Wet curries contain significant amounts of sauce or gravy based on yogurt, cream, coconut milk or cream, legume puree, tomato puree, sauteed crushed onion or broth.
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 …
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 sashimi.
With a busy schedule and limited time, I’m constantly creating food that I can prepare the ingredients and it will only take 20 minutes and it’s ready to serve. I enjoy taking prepared foods and improvising by adding new ingredients to make a “quick” healthy snack or meal.
I’ve taken ahi tuna and “spiced” the recipe to create “Ahi poke sashimi with a spicy zing”. This simple and quick recipe can be prepared ahead of time and added to other recipes, “Stuffed Avocado with Ahi”, “Ahi on Cucumber Slices” or a (low carb grain cracker) with Wasabi Mayonnaise, “Ahi Avocado-Ginger Salad with Spicy Sriracha Mayonnaise”. Use your imagination with the ingredients!
NOTE: When eating out, avoid seaweed salads that are marinated in mirin or other sweeteners, imitation crab has carbs and any “sweet” tasting sauces. Alternative rice-free rolls: cream cheese, smoked salmon, avocado and cucumber, Spicy tuna or Hamachi with avocado and tobiko, Rainbow roll, Spicy toro handroll.
How to Choose Sushi-Grade Seafood
Since most sushi or sashimi includes raw seafood ingredients, it is essential to know how to select the correct fish, and how to keep it fresh. Proper food-safety precautions are the key to creating good sushi, as this will minimize the risk of foodborne illnesses associated with eating raw fish.
Raw fish is not something to be afraid of. Virtually every fish or sea creature is edible, it’s just that not every fish can be eaten raw. Knowing which sources are safe is the best place to start when choosing your sushi ingredients.
Fish safe to eat raw
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) …
