Lotus Shortbread

Ingredients: 500 grams flour, 125 grams oil, and a rightamount of water for water dough, another 500 grams flour and250 grams oil for oil dough; 200 grams sweetened red beanpaste.Method: 1. Mix flour with oil and water, and knead into waterdough; mix the other amount of flour with oil, and knead into     

Chicken Breast Paste

Ingredients: 50 grams of chicken breast, 150 grams of egg white, ham, cucumber and water chestnuts, 50 grams of starch, 50 grams of oil, salt and MSG. Directions: 1. Chop up the chicken breast and water chestnuts. Mix with egg white and starch into chicken breast paste. 2. Heat the oil for a moment and then place chicken paste in pot.     

青笋莲藕烧牛柳

Preparations
Cut 100 grams of lotus roots and 100 grams of bamboo shoots into 2-inch strips, about 1/2-inch wide, add to boiling water, and remove as water boils again.     

Fried Bamboo Shoots with Salted Vegetables

Ingredients: 250 grams of canned bamboo shoots; 75 grams of salted potherb mustard leaves; 5 grams of cooking wine, 1 gram of salt and 500 grams of vegetable oil (15 grams will be consumed). MSG to taste. Directions: 1. Chop the bamboo shoots into rectangles 4 centimeters by 1.65 centimeters. Marinate the bamboo shoots in salt and cooking wine. Clean the salted potherb mustard leaves (or any other kind of vegetable leaves) with hot water and chop into 3.5-centimeter segments.     

Chicken Porridge with Sea Cucumber

Main ingredients: 50 grams of chicken breast, 200 grams of gray sea cucumbers Supplementary ingredients: 100 grams of water chestnut, the whites of four eggs, MSG, salt, wine, meat soup, starch, sugar, scallions, ginger, soy sauce Directions: Chop up the chicken breast and water chestnut into small     

Pepper and Sesame Chicken

Ingredients: 250 grams of chicken breast, 50 grams of water chestnut, thick pieces of white bread or steamed bun. Supplementary Ingredients: Sesame, lard, MSG, salt, whites of three eggs, starch. Directions: Chop up the chicken breast into mash, cut the water chestnuts into small pieces and put them in a bowl. Mix in the supplementary ingredients. Spread the mixed mash onto the bread pieces and roll them in sesame. Heat 250 grams of oil. When hot, put in the pieces one by one. When the pieces turn     

Shanxi-Style Dish: Red-White Fried Boiled Meat

Ingredients: 125 grams of chicken breast meat, 125 grams of pork tenderloin, edible fungus, tremella, winter bamboo shoots and cucumbers, 100 grams of edible oil, 100 grams of corn starch and an optional amount of soy sauce, cooking wine, vinegar, salt and MSG, soup stock, eggs, water soaked from Chinese prickly ashes, soya bean paste, scallions, ginger roots and garlic to taste. Directions: 1. Slice the chicken breast meat, the pork tenderloin, bamboo shoots and cucumbers. Add the chicken meat, egg whites and corn starch. Marinate the tenderloin in the Chinese prickly ash     

Two-Colored Rolls

Ingredients: five cabbage leaves and 250 grams of spinach. Directions: 1. Cook the cabbage leaves in boiling water for two minutes then place the spinach in the water for a few seconds until it turns a deep green. Cool them off with cold water. 2. Put several spinach leaves onto a cabbage leaf and roll     

宫爆鲜菇

Preparations Cook the peanuts thoroughly. Stir-fry some sugar with the peanuts, add peanut oil and sesame seeds, and then let it cool. Boil a pot of water and add mushrooms （about 50 grams of each）. Continue to boil for one minute, then remove the mushrooms.     

Squid Rolls

Ingredients: 250 grams of squid, 100 grams of broccoli. a pinch of green tea, 50 grams of bamboo shoots, 100 grams of various kinds of mushroom, 50 grams of chicken broth, chopped green union, ginger, cooking wine, salt, pep per and MSG.