HOW TO PREPARE THE PERFECT SCALLION PANCAKE RECIPE?

This is the perfect recipe for a breakfast or evening snacks.  Scallion pancakes are the most popular breakfast or snack items in China and are served in almost all the restaurants.  They are flaky, crisp and taste much like an Indian bread.  These pancakes can be prepared in a variety of ways according to the tastes of the local state.

Ingredients:

2 ½ cup flour

1 cup warm water

Vegetable Oil

4 Scallions (finely chopped)

Salt for taste

1 tablespoon sesame oil.

Pepper

Preparation Method:

• In a bowl, mix the flour with a pinch of salt. 
• Add to this the warm water and stir the mixture until a smooth and thick ball is formed. 
• Press the dough over and over repeatedly so as to make it thick and elastic.
• Coat this ball lightly with oil and wrap it in a moist cloth.  Set it aside for about an hour.
• After an hour take the dough back and cut it into 4 equal pieces.
• Take a metal baking sheet and oiled it lightly.
• Roll one of the pieces over it making a triangle sized shape of approximately 12 x 9 inches.
• Take the scallions and mix it with salt and sesame oil. 
• Brush the dough with oil and put on a thin layer of the scallion mixture on it.
• Starting from the long end, roll the dough into a baton.
• Then cut this baton into two parts equally.
• Take one of these parts and flatten it again along with the scallion mixture.
• Roll this dough again into a round pancake.
• Now, heat a heavy skillet and oil it from the inside.  Lay the flat pancake on the skillet gently and let is shimmer for a while (approximately 2 minutes).  Turn it over to the other side and brush it with oil.  Let it again cook for 2 minutes.  Do not overcook or burn it. 
• Now when both the sides are cooked, take it off and cut it into wedges by a pair or scissors or a knife. 

Your Perfect Scallion Pancake is ready to be served.

Scallion Pancake can be served with soya sauce or tomato sauce.

How to prepare the Perfect Drunken Chicken Recipe?

This Chinese recipe can make the perfect appetizer before a meal.  The specialty of this recipe is that it can be prepared a day in advance and thus saves time during the actual occasion.  It is served as a cold appetizer.

The Drunken Chicken Recipe is another authentic Chinese recipe.  A lot of alterations can be done in the original recipe according to the taste and availability of a country and as per your imagination.  Changes can also be made in the alcohol beverages that are to be added in the Drunken Chicken.

The following recipe is the authentic Drunken Chicken prepared by the Chinese. 

Preparation Time                      :           30 minutes

Cooking time                            :           60 minutes

Total Time                                :           90 minutes

Ingredients:

1.5 kg Chicken

1 tablespoon sugar

¼ cup of salt + 2 tablespoon salt

3 spring Onions

1 small ginger

For the Wine Sauce:

3 tablespoons dry sherry or rice wine.

3 tablespoons boiled chicken stock

1 tablespoon salt

1 tablespoon sugar

White pepper

1 tablespoon Soya sauce

Preparation:

Clean the chicken and remove the fat and skin from the chicken.

Now rub the chicken with the ¼ cup of salt on the outside part only. 

Leave it for 10 minutes and then wash it off.  Pat the chicken dry with some tissue papers.

Now sprinkle the remaining salt (2 tablespoon) and the sugar on the chicken, rubbing it on the outside and well as inside.

Cut the onions into large pieces.

Cut the ginger into small slices.

Now take a vessel or a wok and pour 2 liters of water in it.  Bring the water to a boil.

Place half the onions and ginger slices inside the chicken and place it on a tray.  Place the remaining onions and ginger on the outside of the tray.

Place this tray over the boiling water and cover it up.  Let it steam cook for about an hour.

As it is being cooked, prepare the wine sauce, mixing all the above mentioned ingredients and set it aside.

After the chicken is cooked, put it aside and let it cool down. 

After it is cooled, cut the chicken into small pieces as per your requirements.

Pour the wine sauce over it and let it go into the refrigerator.

Let it cool down for a minimum of 4 hours.

Your perfect Drunken Chicken Recipe is ready to be served.

This recipe is to be served cold before the actual meal or as a first course for the meal.