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Stir-fried chicken gizzards with squash

Introduction:
Chicken gizzard is very popular food around the world except in Western countries. Its elastic texture makes bitting fun. The squash adds extra flavors of vegetables. You can add your favorite spices to adjust the taste.

Ingredients:
500g chicken gizzards
250g squash
30 ml canola oil
10g bunching onion
10g ginger
10g garlic
5g sugar
5g salt
1g dry hot pepper
10ml rice wine (Shaoxing 17%)
1g black pepper
1g potato starch

Preparation:
1. Cut chicken gizzards into 0.3 cm thick slices, put into cold water in pot, heat to boiling to remove the blood, drain the water and keep aside
2. Cut squash into 0.3 cm thick round slices
3. Chop the bunching onion, ginger, and garlic into small pieces
4. Heat the canola oil in a fry pan on the stove over high heat for 1 minute
5. Add dry hot pepper powder into the hot oil and stir for 2 minutes, then add the ginger, garlic, and bunching onion into the hot oil and stir for 1 minute
6. Add chicken gizzards pieces into the pan and stir for 1 minute, then add rice wine, and stir for 5 minutes
7. Add squash slices into the pan and stir for 1 minute
7. Add sugar, salt, and black pepper into the pan, and continue to stir for 3 minutes
8. Thicken with potato starch to finish

Kung-Pao Cauliflower

Introduction:
Cauliflower can be cooked alone with its own fragrance. Peanuts and pork meat add extra flavors. Peanuts are usually cooked with chicken (Kung-Pao chicken), which is said to be invented by a governor of Qing dynasty named Baozhen Ding, and Kung-Pao is his official title. The peanuts in this dish makes it special, so I borrow it to use it in the cauliflower.

Ingredients:
500g Cauliflower
10g fried peanuts
10g grinding pork meat
30 ml canola oil
10g bunching onion
10g ginger
10g garlic
5g sugar
5g salt
1g dry hot pepper
1g black pepper
1g potato starch

Preparation:
1. Split cauliflower into 2 cm x 2 cm pieces by hands, and add into boiling water for 3 minutes before taking out and draining the water
2. Prepare fried peanuts
3. Chop the bunching onion, ginger, and garlic into small pieces
4. Heat the canola oil in a fry pan on the stove over high heat for 1 minute
5. Add dry hot pepper powder into the hot oil and stir for 2 minutes, then add the ginger, garlic, and bunching onion into the hot oil and stir for 1 minute
6. Add grinding pork meat into the pan and stir for 2 minutes
7. Add prepared cauliflower into the pan and stir for 1 minute
7. Add sugar, salt, and black pepper into the pan, and continue to stir for 5 minutes
8. Thicken with potato starch to finish

Omelette

Introduction:

It is an easy dish for breakfast, but may vary a lot from different preparations. 

Ingredients:

2 eggs

10g tomato

10g spinach

5g peas

10g mushrooms

10g onion

10g bell pepper

0.5g dry basil

0.5g dry thyme

1g parmesan cheese

1g Sriracha hot chili sauce

2g salt

1g black pepper

10ml whole milk

1 leave of fresh basil

5g lobster meat from steamed lobster

30 ml olive oil

Preparation:

1. Chop onion, bell pepper, mushroom, spinach, tomato, into small pieces

2. Crack 2 eggs into a mixing bowel, and beat well with chopsticks

3. Add the chopped vegetables, peas, parmesan cheese, dry thyme, dry basil, salt, black pepper, hot chili sauce, and milk into the eggs to stir well 

4. Heat the olive oil in a fry pan on the stove over high heat for 1 minute, then turn to mild heat

5. Spread the prepared mixture into the hot oil evenly, wait for 10 seconds for the mixture to firm a little and use spatula to direct the left wet mixture to the sides

6. Wait for 1 minute or until the mixture is 80% firm

7. Fold the mixture into a plate, decorate with the lobster meat slices, basil leave, and hot chili sauce

Tomato sauced Spaghetti with lobster

Introduction:
It is an easy Italian dish, but may vary a lot from different preparations. I use commercial tomato sauce to make it simple, but you can always prepare your own sauce with your favorite flavors. The boiling of spaghetti is essential for success, not hard, not soft, just right. The lobster meat add some taste of the sea, lightly.

Ingredients:
100g spaghetti
50g tomato sause
10g peas
10g lobster meat from steamed lobster
30 ml olive oil
10g onion
10g ginger
10g garlic
2g salt
10ml red wine
1g black pepper

Preparation:
1. Heat water in a pot to boiling, add spaghetti and continue heating for 20 minutes, take out the spaghetti and dip into cold water, then drain the water, and keep aside, add some olive oil to prevent dry in the air
2. Chop onion, ginger, and garlic into small pieces
3. Heat the olive oil in a fry pan on the stove over high heat for 1 minute
4. Add ginger, garlic, and onion into the hot oil and stir for 1 minute
6. Add tomato sauce into the pan and stir for 1 minute, then add red wine, and stir for 5 minutes
7. Add peas into the pan and stir for 2 minutes
7. Add salt, and black pepper into the pan, and continue to stir for 2 minutes
8. Put spaghetti into a dish, and top with the finished tomato sauce, decorate with the lobster meat slices

Stir-fried chicken livers with jalapeños

Introduction:

It is an easy-to-prepare dish based on the taste of chicken liver. You can add your favorite spices to adjust the final flavor. Not as exquisite as geese liver though, it will give you enough satisfaction.

Ingredients:
500g chicken liver
100g jalapeños
30 ml canola oil
10g bunching onion
10g ginger
10g garlic
5g sugar
5g salt
1g black pepper
1g potato starch

Preparation:
1. Cut chicken liver into 0.5 cm x 4 cm pieces, put into cold water in pot, heat to boiling to remove the blood, drain the water and keep aside
2. Cut jalapeños into 0.3 cm thick round slices
3. Chop the bunching onion, ginger, and garlic into small pieces
4. Heat the canola oil in a fry pan on the stove over high heat for 1 minute
5. Add the ginger, garlic, and bunching onion into the hot oil and stir for 1 minute
6. Add chicken liver pieces into the pan and stir for 1 minute, then add jalapeños slices into the pan and stir for 1 minute
7. Add sugar, salt, and black pepper into the pan, and continue to stir for 3 minutes
8. Thicken with potato starch to finish

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