Sunday, February 21, 2010

Eggs and Tomato dish from North China

When I lived in a northern Chinese province I ate this dish a lot, it was one of the Chinese dishes that us Westerns seemed to like.

About 3- 6 tomatos, or a can of them
2-4 eggs
salt
4 table spoons of oil
1/2 tsp shredded chives/spring onions etc
1/2 tsp fresh shredded ginger
1 1/2 tsp sugar

1. Cook tomatos and take off the skins (or open the can)
2. Beat eggs with salt
3. Heat 2 table spoons of oil in fry pan until surface ripples. Pour in eggs and stir as they cook. Take the egg out. Put the rest of the oil in and heat it up. Add chives and ginger, stir fry for few seconds. Next add tomato, salt, sugar. Stir fry for half a min then put the eggs in too. Stir and it's just about ready to eat.

Pizza (Quick mix base)


Mostly we each get excited about different food, but pizza is something we both like. The last few years we've been using this pizza base recipe that makes a big thick bready base that we like. This time Soeun doubled the ingredients so it was even thicker! We cooked it for the same amount of time and it turned out well.

Pizza Base
Mix 2 teaspoons of instant yeast with 1 teaspoon of of sugar and 3/4 cup warm water.
Mix 2 cups of flour and a pinch of salt in another bowl. Mix these 2 together, knead and roll out.
After you've put it on a tray and put the toppings on, cook it for about 20 min on 200C. That's what works in our oven anyway.