You don't need to order take-out or head to your favorite Chinese restaurant every time you get a yen for Fried Rice or Sweet and Sour Pork. Here are ten of my favorite Chinese restaurant recipes that you can make at home:
1. Spring Rolls
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Spring rolls have their origins in the annual Spring festival celebrating the return of Spring. The first spring rolls featured vegetables from the harvest; meat was added later. This spring roll recipe contains Chinese barbecued pork.
3. Egg Drop Soup
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Also known as Egg Flower Soup, this is the popular dish in which lightly beaten eggs are streamed into the broth at the very end.
4. Wonton Soup
The word wonton means "swallowing clouds," and the plump pork-filled wontons in this soup do resemble clouds. To make the dish, wonton wrappers are filled with ground pork and seasonings, boiled, and then added to chicken broth or stock for a final heating.5. Beef With Broccoli
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How do restaurant chefs get the beef so tender in this dish? They “velvet” the meat in hot oil before combining it with broccoli in an oyster-flavored sauce.
6. Sweet and Sour Pork
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The sauce is the star of the show in this dish. Most versions use pineapple juice and combine it with vinegar, sugar, ketchup or tomato paste and pineapple chunks, green bell pepper and shredded carrot. The warmed sauce is poured over pork cubes that have been coated with batter and deep-fried.
7. Ginger Beef
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The staple dish of Chinese restaurants and take-outs, ginger beef consists of crisp, chewy morsels of beef that are coated in a tangy sauce.
8. Chicken Fried Rice
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Classic Chinese fried rice is the perfect comfort food! In this recipe, chicken, rice and vegetables are pan-fried with bits of scrambled egg.
9. Chicken Chow Mein
Chow mein means "fried noodles" - Egg noodles are stir-fried with chicken breast and lots of colorful vegetables in this dish.10. Candied Banana Fritters
Rhonda Parkinson
Have you ever had banana fritters? This recipe goes one step further – the deep-fried pieces of banana are dipped in caramelized sugar and then in ice water to harden. You'll also find this popular Chinese restaurant dessert called "Toffee Bananas."
