what is your best homemade authentic tasting chinese recipe?

[sarahpea]

love chinese but cant afford take aways any suggestions?

Not home made, but Tesco do a ready meal chicken chow mein thing which is quite nice and cheaper than a takeaway.

Whenever I cook Chinese it tastes very different to a takeaway - still nice, but different.

There is an ace sweet and sour chicken one which i use- hang on while i find it

that's what i've found, I follow recipes but it just never has that same taste!

I made this Sweet & Sour Pork last night and it was lovely - even tasted nice this lunchtime warmed up!

here you go

Egg fried rice.

In the morning boil some long grain rice until just cooked, don't let the grains split, or it'll be no good.
Leave in the fridge all day.
Beat eggs and fry in hot oil, mixing all the time. When cooked add the cold rice and mucho soy sauce. Keep turning or it will stick.

will definately try the pork stirling looks yum and will browse through the site it was from!

Goober what oil do you use?

thanks johhnytwohats need to try stir fry again, i think i over cook it and it turns into a soggy mess!

I use vegetable oil.

If you want it to taste like a takeaway you probably need to add copious amounts of MSG

Get some toasted sesame oil, a little pricy a bottle but cheaper than takeaways. It's great on egg fried rice/noodley type dishes.

Sorry - to clarify - not to cook with, to drizzle.

You can cook with it as well though, it smells gorgeous and gives the food a lovely flavour.

but it burns very quickly so only only add it to things towards the end.

I recommend this steamed white fish with ginger and soy recipe. It's seriously gorgeous and very similar to what the Chinese restaurants around here do, either with sea bass or scallops but would be good with any fish. (It is accidentally very healthy too, but don't let that put you off)

Also, I've done this recipe several times - Stir fried beef with peppers and egg noodles. It is from Gordon Ramsay's cookalong series so it is very simple. The most complex bit is chopping and measuring the ingredients; the actual cooking is very easy.

yummmmm.....