Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking (52 page)

Stir-fried yellow chives with pork slivers 202

Sweet-and-sour spare ribs 58

Tuzi’s slow-cooked ribs with red fermented tofu 102

Twice-cooked pork 96

Twice-cooked pork with black bean and chilli 86

portobello mushrooms 231

Vegetarian “Gong Bao chicken” 236

potato flour 10, 342

potatoes 225

Braised pork with potatoes 100

Peng Rui’s potato sliver bing 229

Spiced potato sliver salad 36

Stir-fried mashed potato with

preserved mustard greens 228

Stir-fried potato slivers with chilli and Sichuan pepper 226

Stir-fried potato slivers with green bell pepper 226

Stir-fried potato slivers with spring onion 226

Stir-fried potato slivers with vinegar 226

pumpkin
see
butternut squash

Purple-sprouting broccoli with sizzling oil 168

purslane leaves 167

R

radishes

Asian white radishes 225, 332

Asian white radish with sesame oil 62

Radishes in chilli oil sauce 68

rape shoots 167

rapeseed (canola) oil 344

Red-braised beef with tofu “bamboo” 108

Red-braised pork 93, 94

red yeast rice 342

rice 253

Congee 263

Egg-fried rice 257

Green fried rice 257

Plain brown rice 256

Plain white rice 254

Pot-sticker rice served with rice “soup” 254

red yeast rice 342

Rice-cooked vegetables and rice-cooked pork 264

Shanghainese rice with salt pork and bok choy 260

Soupy rice with pork and greens 262

Soy sauce-fried rice 257

Steamer rice 254

Thai fragrant rice 254

Yangzhou fried rice 258

rice cookers, electric 18

rice flour, glutinous 342

Mr. Lai’s glutinous rice balls (tang yuan) with black sesame stuffing 312, 314

Tang yuan in sweet glutinous rice soup 314

Tang yuan in roasted peanut flour 315

rice meal 104, 342

Bowl-steamed pork in rice meal 104

rice noodles 267, 342

rice vinegars 10, 345

S

salads

Delectable lotus root salad 70

Kohlrabi salad with sesame oil 62

Kohlrabi salad with sour-and-hot dressing 62

Sichuanese fava bean salad 40

Sichuanese green soy bean salad 38

Sichuanese spiced cucumber salad 36

Simple firm tofu salad 44

Slippery wood ear salad with cilantro 60

Spiced potato sliver salad 36

Tiger salad 66

salt 345

Salt-and-pepper fish “tiles” 142

Salt-and-pepper squid 144

Salt-fried pork with garlic stems 98

sauces

black bean sauce 146, 336

chilli bean sauce 140

hoisin
see
sweet fermented sauce

Laoganma black bean sauce 336

Sesame sauce 67

soy sauce 10, 336

Spicy Sichuanese sauce (for chicken) 48

Sweet aromatic soy sauce 322

sweet fermented sauce 336

tamari soy sauce 10, 336

sausages, wind-dried 340

Snow peas with Chinese wind-dried sausage 156

sea bass

Dry-braised fish with black bean and chilli 139

Steamed sea bass with ginger and spring onion 136

Sea bream in fish-fragrant sauce 138

sesame oil 10, 344

sesame paste 338

Sesame sauce 67

sesame seeds 338

Mr. Lai’s glutinous rice balls with black sesame stuffing 312, 314

Shanghai home-style eggplant 214

Shanghai noodles with dried shrimp and spring onion oil 274

Shanghainese rice with salt pork and bok choy 260

Shaoxing wine 10, 345

shiitake mushrooms 12, 340

Bok choy with fresh shiitake 180

Braised chicken with dried shiitake mushrooms 121

dried shiitake mushrooms 12, 340

Ho Fun rice noodles with mushrooms 272

Sour-and-hot mushroom soup 242

Stir-fried oyster and shiitake mushrooms with garlic 232

shrimp, dried 12, 340

Peas with dried shrimp 153

Shanghai noodles with dried shrimp and spring onion oil 274

Stir-fried greens with dried shrimp 172

Sichuan chilli bean paste 338

Sichuanese “dry-fried” green beans 150

Sichuanese fava bean salad 40

Sichuanese green soy bean salad 38

Sichuanese numbing-and-hot beef 56

Sichuanese “send-the-rice-down” chopped celery with ground beef 194

Sichuanese spiced cucumber salad 36

Sichuanese wontons in chilli oil sauce 292

Sichuanese ya cai 334

Sichuan pepper 10, 339

sichuan pepper oil 344

Sichuan preserved vegetable 334

silk gourds 332

Silk gourd with garlic 220

Silk gourd with green soy beans 220

Silken tofu
see
tofu

Slippery wood ear salad with cilantro 60

slow-cooking 24

Smacked cucumber in garlicky sauce 34

Smoked tofu
see
tofu

Snow peas with Chinese wind-dried sausage 156

snow vegetable 334

soups 239

Basic noodle soup 283

Dai Shuang’s yellow split pea soup 247

Fava bean and snow vegetable soup 244

Fried egg and tomato soup 246

Ground pork noodle soup 283

Hangzhou wontons in soup 296

Mushroom noodle soup 283

Simple chicken soup 251

Soup of salted duck eggs, sliced pork and mustard greens 240

Soup with vegetables and meatballs 248

Sour-and-hot mushroom soup 242

Taro and arugula soup 250

Winter melon and salted duck egg soup 240

Soupy rice with pork and greens 262

soy beans

black fermented soy beans 12, 336

fresh green soy beans 332

Green soy beans, served in the pod 72

Sichuanese green soy bean salad 38

Silk gourd with green soy beans 220

Stir-fried green soy beans 162

Stir-fried green soy beans with snow vegetable 162

soy sauce 10, 336

Sweet aromatic soy sauce 322

Soy sauce-fried rice 257

Spicy buckwheat noodles 268

Spicy firm tofu with garlic stems 82

Spicy Sichuanese sauce 48

spinach 167

Simple stir-fried spinach 170

Sour-and-hot spinach 67

Spinach in ginger sauce 64

Spinach with chilli and fermented tofu 170

Spinach with red fermented tofu and ginger 170

Spinach with sesame sauce 67

Water spinach with fermented tofu 170

spoons, measuring 18

spring onions 10, 330

Spring rolls, Fresh 304–307

Vegetable filling with a mustardy dressing 307

squashes (
see
butternut squash) 209

squid

Salt-and-pepper squid 144

star anise 10, 339

steamers, bamboo 18, 234

stir-frying 23

stocks 345

Black bean stock 319

Chicken stock 318

Everyday stock 318

Quick vegetarian stock 319

Sprouted soy bean stock 319

strainers 16

sugar 345

Suzhou breakfast tofu 83

Sweet and sour zucchini 218

Sweet-and-sour spare ribs 58

sweet bean sauce
see
sweet fermented sauce

sweet fermented sauce 12

T

tamari soy sauce 10, 336

taro 225, 332

Taro and arugula soup 250

tea, Chinese 28

tea oil
see
camellia oil

thermometers 18

Tianjin preserved vegetable 334

Tiger salad 66

tofu 75, 326

Bear’s paw tofu 80

Chinese chives with smoked tofu 201

fermented tofu 12, 336

Firm tofu with green bell pepper 84

Flowering chives with smoked tofu 201

Pipa tofu 78

Pock-marked old woman’s tofu 76

Salt-and-pepper tofu 144

Silken tofu with avocado 42

Silken tofu with chicken slivers and pickled mustard greens 88

Silken tofu with pickled mustard greens 88

Silken tofu with preserved duck eggs 41

Silken tofu with soy sauce 41

Simple firm tofu salad 44

Smoked tofu with celery and peanuts 44

Sour-and-hot silken tofu 90

Spicy firm tofu with garlic stems 82

Stir-fried green pepper with firm tofu 215

Stir-fried tofu with black bean and chilli 86

Suzhou breakfast tofu 83

Tofu “bamboo” with spring onion-flavored oil 46

Tofu puffs with salt and Sichuan pepper 78

Vegetarian clay bowl “chicken” 51

tomatoes

Fried egg and tomato noodles 284

Fried egg and tomato soup 246

trout

Braised trout in chilli bean sauce 140