Traditional spice mix Chinese cuisine, which will easily give a certain Chinese accent even to ordinary dishes. The classic composition of spices is Chinese cinnamon cassia, star anise, Sichuan pepper, cloves and fennel seeds. Depending on the region, other ingredients are sometimes added to the spice mixture (despite the fact that the mixture is further called "5 spices" :-)), such as ginger, anise, nutmeg, cardamom or turmeric ... Sometimes one of the spices is replaced. Only cassia, anise and Sichuan pepper remain indispensable.
The Chinese, who scattered around the world, popularized this mixture of spices in other countries, mainly Asian, but not only. A mixture of spices "5 spices" can be bought ready-made, but cooked at home is undoubtedly more aromatic and interesting.
Cassia, or Chinese cinnamon, is a second-rate (if I may say so) cinnamon, which is related to the Ceylon cinnamon we are used to, only it has a slightly different aftertaste, a certain bitterness and a slightly different aroma. But it can be safely replaced with ordinary cinnamon.
As for the Sichuan pepper, it should not be replaced. It has such a unique taste and aroma that it is worth making it difficult for yourself and looking for it in online stores where it is not difficult to find it.
You can add a mixture of spices "5 spices" in Chinese dishes in addition, it is also excellent for duck, goose or pork cooked in your usual way.
Ingredients
- 1 stick of Chinese cassia cinnamon (can be replaced with regular), broken
- 2 star anise
- 2 tsp Sichuan pepper
- 1 tsp carnations
- 1 tsp fennel seed
1) Warm the spices in a dry frying pan until you feel the expressive aroma of spices.
But also ordinary people, whose faces are a kind of visual aid that in almost every person there is at least one or two mixed races and nationalities.
Imani Cornelius, 13 years old. Race/Ethnicity: Black, White, African American.
Adrian Adrid, 24 years old. Race/Ethnicity: White. Filipino.
Jakara Hubbard, 28 years old. Race/Ethnicity: White, African American.
Temba Alleyn, 30 years old. Race/Ethnicity: Multiethnic, white, black, Indian. Asian, Havanese
Alexander Sugiura, 27 years old. Race/Ethnicity: Half Jewish, half Japanese.
Ariel Toole, 14 years old. Racial and national identity: White. black, Vietnamese.
Gabriella Guizzo, 5 years old. Race/Ethnicity: White, Japanese.
Harold Fish, 23 years old. Race/Ethnicity: Puerto Rican, Texan. Jew, European
Judah Holman, 29 years old. Race/Ethnicity: Half Black, Half Thai, Asian.
Helen Robertson, 54 years old. Race/Ethnicity: White, Asian.
Tevan Jones, 22 years old. Race/Ethnicity: White, African American.
Daisy Fenkl, 3 years old. Race/Ethnicity: Korean, Hispanic.
Jessie Lee, 32 years old. Race/Ethnicity: She is half Chinese, one quarter French, one quarter Swedish.
Joshua Asoak, 34 Race/Ethnicity: Jewish, Eskimo-Inuit.
But the travel photographer Jimmy Nelson had a unique opportunity to capture vivid portraits of various representatives of nationality and culture in his works.
And it is not at all surprising that most of the pictures were included in the author’s book entitled “Before they disappeared”, because in the photo before the viewer, in all their glory, militant men and specifically beautiful women appear, whose traditions, rituals and way of life, for the majority of modern people still remains a mysterious mystery.
Jacob Benavente, 5 years old. Race/Ethnicity: Asian, Islander, American.
Kelly Williams II, 17 years old. Race/Ethnicity: Black, African American, German.
Christopher Braxton, 33 Race/Ethnicity: Black, African American, Korean.
Cameron Benjamin, 22 years old. Race/Ethnicity: White, Hawaiian, Chinese.
Lula Newman, 7 years old. Race/Ethnicity: White, Chinese, Welsh, Polish, German.
Maya Joey Smith, 9 years old. Race/Ethnicity: Black, Korean, African American.
Mariam Nayeri, 33 years old. Race/Ethnicity: Mexican, descendant of natives of Saudi Arabia.
Mars Wright, 25 years old. Race/Ethnicity: Black, African American, Filipino.
Osanna Marshall, 32 Race/National Identity: African American, a mixture of blacks, Indians, whites and Jews.
Sandra Williams, 46 years old. Race/Ethnicity: Black, biracial.
Every day, fresh herbs are added to our table - here are two more recipes that will allow you to enjoy true spring flavors and learn new ones. National dishes, this time Vietnamese. These are spring rolls. In general, everything Vietnamese pancakes- and there are many different types- are divided into two large groups: fried and fresh. We offer to cook both fresh - rice paper rolls with herbs, pork and shrimp, and fried - with green onion filling.
The Chinese, who invented gunpowder, paper and many other useful things, are sure that they had a hand in the birth of pizza. In this story, of course, Marco Polo appears, who, during his stay in China, allegedly became so addicted to Chinese pancakes with green onion that upon returning to his homeland he tried with the help of Italian chef recreate your favorite dish.
The Italian failed to repeat Chinese pancakes, but pizza was “born”. There is no point in seriously discussing this legend, since even the very fact of Marco Polo's stay in China is questioned by a number of historians, not to mention the fact that the word pizza is found in Italian chronicles two and a half centuries before his birth.
But it makes sense to try to cook Chinese pancakes. A completely unexpected combination of flavors of sesame oil and green chives, "built-in" in ruddy dough, as well as an unusual puff texture, which is slightly springy, make meeting with these pancakes unforgettable. They are especially tasty if eaten by dipping them alternately in soy sauce and spicy Thai sauce.
For 4-6 servings:
- Sesame oil - 1 tbsp. l.
- Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.
For test:
- Wheat flour - 2½ cups (360 g)
- Water - 450 ml
- Salt - 1 pinch
For filling:
- Green chives - 1 bunch
- Salt - 1 tsp
- For the dough, mix flour and salt in a bowl and make a well in the center. In a small saucepan, bring the water to a boil, remove from heat, and when the bubbles disappear, pour the water into the flour, stirring quickly with a wooden spatula. Let the mixture cool slightly, put on the table and knead with your hands elastic dough. Cover it and let it sit for 30 minutes.
- For the filling, mix finely chopped onion with salt in a small bowl.
- Sprinkle the table surface with flour. Roll out the dough into a thick rope and cut into 12 pieces. To make a pancake, take a piece of dough and flatten it with your hands or a rolling pin into a thin rectangle. Brush the surface with sesame oil and sprinkle with a little salted onion.
- On the long side, roll the rectangle into a tight tube, flatten it slightly and roll it into a snail, tucking the end of the tube and gluing it to the roll. Press the snail with the palm of your hand and roll it out with your fingers or a rolling pin to the desired thickness. Prepare all other pancakes in the same way.
- Heat a heavy bottomed skillet over medium heat. Add vegetable oil, heat it up and fry the pancakes on both sides until golden brown. Serve hot.
Vietnamese cuisine, unlike many other Asian cuisines, doesn't try to overwhelm you with punchy doses of exotic flavors. The secret to success is fresh ingredients (most of which, oddly enough, are available in Russia), moderate use of spices, and some manual dexterity. The latter, of course, is achieved by exercises.
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My favorite goi cuon fresh pancakes I learned how to bake at Madame Vee's cooking course in Hoi An City in Central Vietnam. Acquaintance with this amazing woman gave me a lot in understanding Vietnamese cuisine.
Her full name is Trin Diem Vi. career in restaurant business she started as a girl, helping her mother in a restaurant in the market. Today, with four of Hoi An's most famous restaurants, Madame Vee still considers going to the market the most important thing for Vietnamese food.
Together with the chef of Madame Vee's restaurant Morning Glory, I learned how to choose the herb of the same name from the market, which gave the place its name, and mastered many other tricks that you can’t read in a book. Like the fact that the most delicious papaya is the most unprepossessing in appearance.
When I asked Madam Vee what would be on the Morning Glory menu tomorrow, she answered without hesitation: “First, you need to go to the market.” The freshest seasonal fruits, vegetables, herbs; fish and seafood delivered by local fishermen at dawn is what defines the exact menu.
For 8 rolls:
- Fresh herbs (basil, cilantro, lettuce, mint, soy sprouts) - 3 cups
- Rice noodles - 200 g
- Grilled pork - 16 slices or ham - 16 thin slices
- Large boiled peeled shrimp - 12 pcs.
- Green onion - 12 thin feathers of 6 cm
- Rice paper - 8 sheets
For sweet and sour sauce:
- Lime juice - 1 tbsp. l.
- Fine white sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
- Nam pla fish sauce - 1.5 tsp
- Water - 3 tsp
- Garlic
- hot chili pepper
- Boil rice noodles and rinse with cold water.
- To prepare the pancake, place a sheet of rice paper on a flat surface and dampen with a damp cloth.
- Place a handful of herbs on a leaf, top with some noodles, then 2 pieces of meat (or 2 slices of ham) and 3 shrimp halves, pink side down.
- Fold the leaf like a pancake towards the shrimp, adding a few green onion feathers at the last moment.
- For the sweet and sour sauce, dissolve sugar in lime juice, add fish sauce, water, and 1 tsp. minced garlic and chili peppers. Stir. In the finished sauce, add a few rings of pepper and a few slices of garlic.
- Serve pancakes with sweet and sour sauce.
Frozen vegetables today can be found in almost every store.
Such mixtures are especially relevant in the kitchen in winter, when there are practically no summer vegetables on the shelves, and treat yourself delicious dish with the addition of sweet tomatoes or green peas you want. But before buying this product, many often ask themselves the question: Are frozen vegetable mixes healthy??».
After all, most people believe that since the vegetables have passed the freezing stage, it means that all useful trace elements have disappeared from the products, and this is far from evidence of the benefits of vegetable mixtures. It must be said that this is not so.
Many experts argue that such semi-finished products are not inferior in their usefulness to fresh vegetables.
After all, thanks to modern technologies, vegetables harvested from the beds go through the freezing stage for 2-3 hours. And during this period of time they simply do not have time to lose their nutritional properties.
Therefore, mixtures of vegetables are ideal both for inclusion in the daily diet of a child and for consumption by the elderly.
In addition, these mixtures:
- Helps improve digestion and appetite;
- Suitable for diet food;
- Are low in calories;
- Rich in selenium, phosphorus, sodium, iron and other useful trace elements.
By incorporating frozen vegetables into your diet, you have the opportunity to discover new frozen mix recipes. Depending on whom, what product you buy, it will depend on how you prepare a culinary masterpiece: a side dish for the second course, soup or salad.
Now manufacturers are trying to surprise the buyer with an interesting composition of mixtures.
Frozen vegetables can be:
- carrot,
- tomatoes,
- brussels or string beans
- Chinese cabbage,
- beet,
- broccoli.
- Someone will like the Hawaiian mixture, the contents of which are characterized by the presence of rice, and someone may like frozen italian mix, where everyone's favorite olives are available.
The main thing when choosing semi-finished products is to carefully study the composition of the product, as some vegetables may not suit you due to personal intolerance or due to other circumstances.
It is also important to assess the condition of the mixture. If it looks like a lump, it means that it was thawed, as a result of which it lacks any nutrients.
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The frozen mixture is a real new generation product that does not require long-term heat treatment. It does not even require pre-defrosting to prepare it. Such vegetables can be easily stewed, fried or boiled.
Hawaiian frozen mix One of the most popular is the Hawaiian frozen mixture, the recipe of which is quite simple. The main product that is included in its composition is rice.
It also contains:
- Red sweet pepper;
- Corn;
- Green pea.
Here the composition may be different, because the manufacturer decides everything, but rice remains the same ingredient. There are only 91 kcal per 100 grams of Hawaiian mix. As a result, the mixture is ideal for those who are on a diet.
This blend is the perfect accompaniment to any meal, be it a main course, light soup or a salad prepared by you.
RECIPE
A very simple dish. Vegetables do not require defrosting, so you can start cooking at any time.
We will need:
- 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil,
- water,
- salt,
- seasonings to taste.
Cooking order:
- Heat up a frying pan and add vegetable oil.
- pour out vegetable mix, stir lightly.
- Add water to the mixture (about a third of a cup will be enough for one package of 400 grams).
- Simmer covered for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- When the liquid evaporates, the rice and vegetables will brown slightly. It remains to salt and add seasonings to taste.
It can be served with any meat or as an independent dish.
In the minds of many, Mexican cuisine is a must. fried foods with the addition of a huge amount hot pepper and spices. However, this is not the case.
In this country, the culinary preferences of residents are not limited to such culinary masterpieces, here they also like meat, various cereals and vegetables. The latter can be tried if you buy a frozen mixture.
In it you will find:
- Carrot,
- Bell pepper,
- corn grains,
- string beans,
- Green pea.
Mushrooms, cereals or other ingredients can be added to the mixture if desired. A lot depends on the dish you want to cook.
RECIPE
Omelet with Mexican mix
This dish is unusual and very tasty.
We will need:
- vegetable oil,
- butter,
- two eggs,
- salt,
- 2 tablespoons of milk
- spices.
Cooking order:
- Heat up a frying pan, add some butter and fry frozen vegetables.
- For half a pack Mexican mix two eggs will suffice. Beat them with milk and salt and pour into a pan with vegetables.
- Cover with a lid and fry until done.
More Examples:
- Vegetable side dish, for which you need to fry frozen vegetables in a pan with the addition of seasonings and oil, then pour in a little water and simmer the dish. After half an hour, you can start the test.
- The mixture, which has passed the freezing stage, is ideally combined with seafood, meat, different cereals and mushrooms, you can cook from it warm salads, holiday treats and casseroles.
Asian food lovers will love Chinese Frozen Mix because it has all the ingredients of traditional Chinese cuisine.
The main products included here are:
- White cabbage;
- Carrot;
- Shiitake mushrooms;
- soy and bamboo sprouts;
- Celery;
- Mini corn.
Chinese frozen mix can be supplemented with soy sauce or seasonings, which will only emphasize refined taste products.
Recipe: Chinese vegetable mix with meat
This dish involves pre-cooking the meat.
We will need:
- any meat, such as beef or pork,
- ginger,
- soy sauce,
- onion garlic,
- vegetable oil.
Cooking order:
- Cut the meat into thin strips, add ginger and soy sauce. Place in the refrigerator to marinate overnight.
- The next day, fry the meat in a pan in vegetable oil.
- Add the vegetable mixture and onion to the meat, pour the soy sauce.
- If desired, add a little garlic and simmer under the lid until tender.
- The Chinese mixture is ideal as a side dish for rice or meat. To taste qualities vegetables have fully opened, they must be added at the very end of cooking. After 15 minutes of cooking, when the vegetables become soft, you can start eating them.
Whichever frozen mix you choose to fulfill your own culinary fantasies, you will have the opportunity to not only treat yourself delicious vegetables, prepare a unique dish for loved ones, but also maximally saturate the body with essential trace elements and vitamins.
After all, thanks to modern technologies for processing ingredients, frozen vegetable mix can be called the product of the future, which not only retains all the nutritional properties, but is also ideal for instant cooking.
Everyone loves the fruits of culture, but not everyone can properly care for them. The matter is not limited to planting seeds in the ground. They carry out many agrotechnical activities. These include plant nutrition and processing.
The hallmark of its use is that it does not remain in vegetables. Use is safe for the human body.
- 1 g of boric acid;
- 1 g of potassium permanganate;
- 3 g of copper sulfate;
- 100 g of urea;
Since this solution does not bring harm, it is processed every 1.5-2 weeks. It is much weaker than chemicals, but after processing with it, vegetables are eaten already for 2-3 days.
Chinese mixture for spraying cucumbers is used as a foliar top dressing.
How to prepare Chinese mixture?
Proper preparation is the key to a positive result. All items must be completed:
- First of all, urea is diluted. To do this, you can take a little water, or just half a bucket. Mix thoroughly.
- Boric acid is diluted in a glass of water, the temperature of which is 75-85 ⁰С. After dilution, it is added to urea with water.
- Potassium permanganate is added to the resulting mixture. Mix until smooth.
- Pour blue vitriol into a 10-liter bucket, pour water, dilute. Add the mixture and mix thoroughly. As a result, topped up to 10 liters.
- Pour into the sprayer, start processing, the resulting composition is not stored.
Spray all cucumber stems without exception. Not missing a single one.
What is it used for?
Processing the plant from peronosporosis, powdery mildew and late blight also helps fight the tick, and reanimate the plants that begin to turn yellow.
Top dressing cucumbers
Each summer resident has his own well-established fertilizer application system. Only a beginner vegetable grower finds it difficult to understand all the intricacies of the process. Sometimes, timely applied top dressing helps to avoid serious consequences leading to the death of plants.
The very first top dressing is carried out when the plant has given 4-5 true leaves. Use mullein, 1 liter per 10 liters of water.
The dosage cannot be increased, as the plant will begin to form a powerful green mass, and will not bear fruit.
The second time to feed after 14-21 days. Apply diluted chicken manure, 700 ml per 10 liters of water. In order not to burn the sensitive roots of plants, water around the bushes.
During the flowering period, another top dressing is carried out. 200-300 g of wood ash is taken and 10 liters of water are diluted. The mixture is poured under the root.
Finishes the season top dressing during the fruiting period. 500 ml of chicken manure per 10 liters of water. In addition, complex fertilizers are used, which are mixed independently.
Fertilizer combination
The main condition is not to harm. To do this, you should know exactly what to mix with what, and what is categorically incompatible.
Lime, dolomite, chalk do not combine:
- With urea.
- ammonium sulfate.
- Ammonium nitrate.
- Manure.
- Bird droppings.
- All types of superphosphate.
- Potassium chloride, potassium salt.
- potassium sulfate.
Manure and bird droppings must not be mixed with:
- ammonium sulfate.
- Ammonium nitrate.
The right combination of minerals and fertilizers will help plants form strong bushes and give a rich harvest.
Other ways of feeding and processing crops
In addition to the Chinese mixture, other folk remedies are used for cucumbers. Their advantage is that they do not harm plants and the human body.
Summer residents are advised to use a decoction onion peel. This will require boiling water and 1 kg of husk. Insist 24-48 hours. After diluted in a ratio of 1: 5-8 parts. Spray with the prepared solution every 2 weeks. In addition to removing pathogens, the infusion feeds plants and kills aphids on cucumbers.
Using a solution of boric acid can significantly increase the yield of any crop. To do this, take 2-3 g of the substance and dilute it with 10 liters of water. ready mix process all plants during flowering.
Experienced vegetable growers advise using fish heads as a top dressing. To do this, prepare a special infusion. 2-3 heads pour 10 liters of water, insist until foam forms on top. After that, 200 g of wood ash is added and allowed to stand for another 5 hours. Plants that have begun to dry out, stop blooming and give ovaries are watered with the resulting mixture. It is necessary to carefully remove all the leaves, without touching the growing points and top. The whips are folded and pressed down to the ground. After a while, sprouts will appear. After observing a little, the weak ones are removed, leaving 1 the strongest. It will give new life to the old plant.
In order for plants to be less attacked by insects or diseases, proper care and agricultural technology is required. First of all, plants on the site or greenhouses are not too close. You should calculate the optimal distance between the bushes and rows.
No need to re-moisten the soil. It is better to water more abundantly and less often. To preserve moisture, control pests, the soil is spudded or loosened after each watering. It is recommended to mulch the beds with plantings, this will save from the appearance of weeds, in the roots of which insects can destroy plants.
Better than any treatment, competent prevention works, taking the necessary measures will save you from crop loss.
Cucumbers should be regularly inspected; when the first symptoms of any disease appear, fruits, leaves, stems, and even the entire plant are destroyed. By sacrificing one, the rest will be saved. All infected plant residues are buried deep in the ground or carried far beyond the site.
Better enjoy folk remedies prevention and control of diseases, as they do not harm the human body.
Timely introduced top dressing causes the disease to bypass. A strong plant resists bacteria and viruses longer.
The Chinese mixture is used by many, including the Chinese themselves. Its benefit is that by disinfecting the plant, it is a top dressing. With proper care, they get a rich harvest.
