Hot Hunan Shrimp Recipe

This fast and easy recipe is adapted from Food and Wine magazine.

1 lb large shrimp
1 T Shaoxing wine
1/2 t salt
3 T peanut oil
2 t minced ginger, garlic, chili garlic sauce, minced pickled chiles each
1/3 c water
1/2 t dark soy sauce
2 green onions finely chopped
1 T finely chopped red bell pepper
1/4 t sesame oil

Using scissors, cut down the curved side of shells. Remove veins, leave shells intact. Put in bowl and mix with wine and salt.

Heat wok very hot. Add oil, heat to slight smoke. Pat shrimp dry. Add to pan. Cook to nearly done about 2 min. Add ginger, garlic, chili sauce, pickled chiles, and stir fry fragrant about 1 min. Add water , soy sauces, green onions, bell pepper, and stir fry til liquid slightly reduced and shrimp cooked through. Drizzle with sesame oil

               

Hainan Chicken Recipe - National Dish

Hainan Chicken or Chicken with Rice is the national dish of Singapore

Chicken

1. The fresher the chicken the better.
2. Wash the chicken with coarse salt, rubbing away the dead yellow skin.
3. Put some ginger and green onions in the cavity.
4. Fill large pot with enough water to cover chicken. Bring to a boil.
5. Put chicken in. Allow water to return to a boil and lower heat to a minimal simmer.
6. Cover pot and allow chicken to remain for about an hour, until juices no longer run pink.
7. Reserve the broth
8. Plunge chicken in an icebath to allow skin to firm up and for gel to develop.
9. Chop into bit size pieces.

Rice

1. Use as much as you want and wash rice.
2. Heat stainless skillet. Add oil and cook finely chopped garlic and ginger
3. Add rice and stir fry for a few minutes. Add some salt.
4. Add sufficient chicken broth to soak the rice. Cook for a few minutes.
5. Put into a rice cooker and then add sufficient amount of chicken broth to properly cook rice.

Sauce

1. Mince garlic
2. Finely grate ginger
3. This should be about about a 50/50 mix
4. Add  some Rice vinegar
5. Add some Lime juice enough to fully cover the entire mixture
6. Add sugar to offset the tartness.
7. If desired add Sriracha sauce

Yummy enough for home but the pros make it way better.