Stew means: a method of cooking. Food is placed in a pot with a certain amount of water, covered tightly, and cooked slowly over moderate heat so that the food is cooked and dried out: stewed rice, cassoulet.

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Characteristics of Stewed Dishes

The flavor characteristics of stewed dishes are usually crispy and thick, fat but not greasy, juicy and flavorful, soft and fresh.

Stewing is to maintain the original flavor of the main ingredients on the basis of making all the flavors inside the decomposition out, usually stewed dishes have the shape of the integrity of the juice is rich in flavor and mellow, soft and fresh aroma characteristics.

There are many ways to make stewed dishes, such as stewed chicken thighs with mushrooms, stewed bamboo shoots and stewed eggplants. Take mushroom stew chicken legs as an example, the practice is as follows:

1, chicken legs cleaned and chopped into small pieces, dried mushrooms 1 hour in advance soak, green and red bell peppers cut into small pieces, ginger julienne, scallions cut into sections.

2, the bowl put starch, soy sauce, old soy sauce, sugar, mix well and spare.

3, the pot of oil, chicken thighs fried until both sides of the golden brown.

4, add mushrooms, ginger, small onion, stir fry evenly.

5: Pour in the seasoning sauce and add half a bowl of water.

6, cover and simmer for 15 minutes.

Common Cooking Methods

1, Boil: Cook ingredients in boiling water, generally applicable to meat, eggs, pasta and so on.

2, simmer: put the ingredients into the pot, add the right amount of water, boil and then change to low heat, cover the pot, simmer until cooked.

3, stew: put the ingredients into the pot, add the right amount of water, bring to a boil and then change to low heat, cover the pot with a lid, and simmer until the ingredients are cooked.

4, steam: put the ingredients into the steamer, add the right amount of water, using the temperature of the water vapor to cook the ingredients.

5, fried: put the ingredients into the pot, frying with oil or roasted with fire.

6. Roast: Put the ingredients in the oven and use the temperature of the oven to cook the ingredients.

7, deep frying: put the ingredients into a frying pan and fry them in oil.