What to Cook with – Tasty Recipes to Try
Looking for recipes with ? We’ve got simple, tasty ideas the whole family will love — perfect for everyday cooking.
Recipes with
This is how to pan-fry small river fish. My family says they could eat it eight times a week and not get tired of it. It's spicy and flavorful, so delicious that they even eat the bones...
undefined
undefined
This pineapple beef salad smells so good it'll make your mouth water the moment it hits the table! The tender, bouncy beef is coated in glistening red chili oil, and the pineapple chunks are soaked in the sauce. Each bite is bursting with sweet and sour juices, followed by the spiciness of the beef. The crispness of the celery and chili peppers blends perfectly with the aroma of garlic, creating a rich and refreshing flavor profile. The beef is so tender you don't even need to chew it, and the sweet and sour pineapple balances the spiciness perfectly. It's so appetizing, you'll want to clean every last drop of sauce from the plate.
This special bread recipe used scalded dough as a secret booster. It offers numerous benefits in bread making by precooking a portion of the flour's starch with boiling water, which allows it to bind significantly more moisture than raw flour. This results in enhanced texture, flavor, and shelf life of the finished bread.
undefined
This all-purpose five-spice powder, stir-fried by hand, blends numbing, fragrant, spicy, salty, and sweet flavors harmoniously. Its aroma is rich yet not overpowering, and its taste is complex and layered, pairing perfectly with everything. This flavor is reminiscent of what Cai Lan, one of Hong Kong's four great talents, renowned food critic, and columnist, said: "Life cannot be too perfect"—it's not simply sweet, nor purely fragrant, but a complex blend of numbing, fragrant, spicy, and sweet flavors, just like our lives, which always have surprises and regrets, intense moments and mundane ones. It's precisely this unpretentious richness that allows it to be combined with chili powder to make five-spice rolls, mixed with steamed meat powder to make fragrant steamed pork, added to salt to stir-fry marinated meat, and even used to make crispy salt and pepper shrimp. A simple spoonful adds a unique smoky aroma to everyday flavors.
Sichuan cured pork belly—that's a longing etched into the DNA of every Sichuanese. In previous years, we'd eat cured pork belly made from pigs raised by our neighbors back home. Those pigs were raised for over a year, so they were incredibly fatty; the fat slices alone were as wide as a hand, making it quite a hefty meal. This year, I decided to make it myself—a down-to-earth, family-style version. I specifically chose leaner cuts of pork, finally achieving "cured pork belly freedom"! Look at this! The layers of fat are distinct, golden and translucent, glistening with oil—it makes my mouth water just looking at it. Unlike the dark, charred kind from smoking back home, this is clean and easy to wash. A close sniff reveals a subtle cypress aroma mixed with the numbing fragrance of Sichuan peppercorns. Steaming it releases a rich, smoky flavor that fills the room. The fatty parts are tender and not greasy, while the lean parts are firm and chewy—every bite is the taste of home.
undefined