Homemade Chinese Food
Last year my wife Corina and I started a tradition of making Chinese food on Christmas Eve. In previous years we bought Chinese take-out and decided we’d have a go at making our favourites at home.
Our meal consisted of sweet and sour chicken balls, soo guy almond chicken, honey sesame chicken, fried rice and an egg roll. Everything except the egg roll and sweet and sour sauce was homemade. Maybe we’ll tackle that next year.
Soo Guy Almond Chicken Recipe
I just doubled up the batter ingredients for the Soo Guy to use with the chicken balls. That recipe calls for baking powder, but I amped it up a bit with some baking soda so the batter would inflate more. I think my second time around I got better quality batter just by doing that.
Honey Sesame Chicken
This was the first time I tried this recipe. It turned out well, but it wasn’t quite what I was looking for. There is a place near my work that has fantastic sesame chicken, which prompted me to want to create this homemade version in the first place. It was quite the good recipe though.
I just freelanced on the fried rice, making it with basmatti rice, chicken soup base and peas, corn and carrots.
One busy deep fryer
A full stovetop
