Chicken Stock 高湯

Ingredients

Rotisserie chicken or chicken back bone-1 (I used organic chicken back bone. I noticed it's less fat)

Yellow onion-1 big one

Carrorts-2

Stalks celery-2

Cloves garlic-2

Bay leaves-2

Pepper-1/2 tsp

1 tsp apple cider vinegar (optional)

Water-8 cups

Salt-1/2 tsp

Method:

·       Put all the ingredients in the instant pot and cook for 30 mins. (If you don’t have instant pot, you need to cook it until it’s boiling and turn it to low heat. Cook for 2.5 hours)

·       Let the broth cool down and use a strainer to drain the ingredients.

·       If you want low fat, you can put the broth in the fridge. After a few hours, you will see a layer of fat on the surface. You can scope them out. 

Taiwanese Spicy Beef Noodles 台式麻辣牛肉麵

Ingredients:

Beef Shank-2 pounds (I use 1 lb beef shank and 1 lb ox tail)

Onion-2 large ones

Tomatoes-2 large ones

Ginger-3 slices

Green onion-2

Rice wine- 1.5 cups

Soy sauce-half cup

Chilly bean sauce-3 table spoons

Chilli-1

Sesame oil- half tsp

Rock Sugar-1 table spoon

Ground black pepper-half tsp

Water- enough to cover all the ingredients

Method:

Prepare put all the ingredients above in a slow cooker.

Cook them in high heat for 4 hours

Serve with noodles

Chicken Rice 嘉義雞肉飯

Ingredients #1

Ground pork-1.5 pounds

Fried garlic-2 table spoons

Fried red onion-2 table spoons

Soy sauce-half cup

Crystal sugar -2 tsp

Rice wine-1 table spoon

Ground pepper -half of tsp

Five spices powder-1 tsp

Water-1 cup

Ingredients #2

4 pieces of chicken breasts (or whole chicken)

Method:

1. Steam the chicken until they are cooked. 

2. Peel the chicken into pieces

3. Cook ground pork in a pan until it’s half done. 

4. Add the rest of the#1 ingredients to the pot and continue to cook.

5. When the ground pork is cooked, pour the chicken to the pot.

6. Serve with rice

焦糖鮭魚 Brown Sugar Salmon

Ingredients #1

Salmon- 1 piece (size of a palm)

Soy sauce-1 tsp

Rice wine-1 stsp (you can use white wine or sake)

Salt-half tsp

Black pepper- some         

Ingredients #2

Brown sugar-1 tsp

Method:

1. Put ingredients #1 into a pot and marinate for 30 minutes.

2. Heat the oven to 400F

3. Place salmon on a baking tray. And pour the marinating sauce on top

4. Spray ingredients #2 on the salmon

5. Bake 15 mins

Banana Cake 香蕉蛋糕

 

 

Ingredients:
4 medium banana
2 eggs
100g unsalted butter
Half cup all purpose flour
Half cup multigrain flour
1 cup sugar
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon powder
Half tsp salt
2 table spoon baking powder
1 tea spoon vanilla extract

Method:

1. Mix all the dry ingredients
2. Peel banana and use a spoon to smash them.
3. Mix banana, eggs, and vanilla and then add the dry ingredients.
4. Add butter, continue to mix until they are ready to bake
5. Bake at 350 degree for 45 mins

You can also make it with an Instant Pot. Hit manual -45 mins. When it's done, release the air.