Year Of The Monkey!

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with some traditional Asian dishes! Chinese cuisine is infamous for being rather finicky and high maintenance, but some are simple and cheap, and common during the Eastern holiday season!

Baked Fish (2-4 spoons)

The Chinese phrase 年年有餘 means ‘may the new year bring prosperity’. And the character ‘餘’ (meaning prosperity) also phonetically sounds the same as ‘魚’, which means fish. So came to be that fish is essential in a traditional Lunar New Years meal.

Common fishes eaten are catfish, flounder, bass, perch, and snapper. Take a gutted and scaled fish, head and all, and lightly rub with salt and mild seasonings and herbs. Cook in a preheated 400 F oven upon a baking tin lined with tinfoil for 30-35 minutes. Serve with soy sauce.

Dressed Rice (2-4 spoons)

It’s common to add supplementary ingredients to a pot of raw rice before it’s all steamed, making it a full meal with a single button press. Add raw prawns, cut potatoes and yams, slices of chicken or duck, quail eggs, chestnuts, bamboo shavings, and bay leaves.

Papaya Milk (3-4 spoons)

Blend the meat of one medium, overripe, seeded Jamaican papaya with a glass of milk. Sweeten with condensed milk or honey. Makes a good dessert!

Red Bean Soup (4-5 spoons)

Red beans are a common dessert ingredient all throughout Asia. Red bean soup is very easy to make, but does take more than a day; soak 2 cups of red beans (also known as adzuki beans) in cold water for at least five hours, maybe overnight if you can help it. Then, place the beans in a pot, add water to just about cover the beans, and boil for three hours, stirring occasionally.

Add a cup of sugar and boil for 15 more minutes. If the beans aren’t softened by this point, some blend the mixture in a food processor. Commonly added is condensed milk for extra sweetness

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Soak your dried red kidney beans

www.fda.gov

The syndrome is usually caused by the ingestion of raw, soaked kidney beans, either alone or in salads or casseroles. As few as four or five raw beans can trigger symptoms. Several outbreaks have been associated with “slow cookers” or crock pots, or in casseroles which had not reached a high enough internal temperature to destroy the glycoprotein lectin. It has been shown that heating to 80°C may potentiate the toxicity five-fold, so that these beans are more toxic than if eaten raw. In studies of casseroles cooked in slow cookers, internal temperatures often did not exceed 75°C.

Submitted by dthemod

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Anonymous asked:

One thing about beans: I was reading about cooking beans in a slow cooker a while ago and DO NOT do this with kidney beans. They release a toxin that only boiling gets rid of (there may be others ways but def be careful). Literally every other kind of bean is fair game though

good to know

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