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Preparation Time: 15 min
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 4

Hoisin Chicken

Ingredients

4 large chicken breasts
cornflour
oil
1 teaspoon chopped ginger
2 onions
400g mushrooms
100g snow peas (mange tout)
1 green pepper
2 tablespoons Hoi Sin sauce
2 tablespoons rice wine
1 tablespoon soy
2 tablespoon vinegar
salt
1 cup water
2 chicken stock cubes

Method

1. Cut the chicken into strips or bite size chunks.
2. Cut the mushrooms, pepper and onion into chiunks and top and tail the snow peas if necessary.
3. Heat some oil in a wok or frying pan, then add the chicken and cook until golden brown, drain well.
4. Add extra oil to the pan and heat, add the ginger and onion and cook for one minute, then add the mushroom and pepper and cook for a further two mintutes.
5. Add the Hoi Sin sauce, rice wine, soy sauce, vinegar, salt, stock cubes and cornflour-water mixture. Cook for 30 seconds.
6. Return the chicken to the pan, and heat until the sauce thickens.
7. Serve immediately over rice or noodles.

Result

This is a really great dish, but watch how much vinegar you put into the food.

Preparation Time: 35 mins (incl 20 minutes marinating time)
Cooking Time: 10 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 2

Crispy Prawns

Ingredients

600g prawns
2 tablespoon fish sauce
flour
oil

Method

1. Deshell and devein the prawns.
2. Place in a bowl and marinate for 20 minutes in the fish sauce.
3. Coat each prawn in the flour.
4. Heat the oil in a deep frying pan and when hot deep fry the prawns until golden brown.
5. Serve immediately on thier own, or over rice or noodles.

Result

This has to be the simplest dish around. As a prawn lover I really like this dish.

Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Difficulty: Medium
Serves: 2

Teppanyaki

Ingredients

300g beef
300g pork
300g lamb
1 green pepper
1 red pepper
6 spring onions
2 open brown mushrooms
100g snow peas
4 patty pans (baby squash)
100g baby corn
1 slender egg plant

Method

1. Cut the meat into thin slices.
2. Cut the pepper into slices long ways.
3. Cut the onion into pieces about 7cm in length.
4. Cut the patty pans in half.
5. Cut the baby corn in half or leave whole.
6. Cut the egg plant into strips.
7. Fry all of the ingredients in a flat pan. Searing the meat until cooked through.
8. Server neatly on a plate.

Result

Traditionally this dish is served in restaurants by a specialised Teppan Yaki chef who not only knows exactly how to cook the food, but also knows how to tantilise the ‘audience’ by his culinary chef ‘act’.

It is unlikely that you will be able to provide the show, but you can provide the food, and not only does it taste good, it is amazingly easy to prepare.

Serve with Japanese soy sauce.

I didn’t use the lamb by the way, that’s why you can’t see it in the picture. Don’t worry if you can’t get the exact ingredients as you can substitute as much as you want.