chinesefood – Carmen Godley

Ingredients:

Methods: (Easy – cooking time 20-30 minutes)

Clean the lobster and chop of the head off, and using the back of your knife to ban the claws shell opened, put aside.
Boiled some hot water and put the noodle in when it is soften after 3-4 minutes. (see the package instruction)
Medium heat on the pan, put 4-5 teaspoons vegetable/seeds oil into the pan, put all the chops garlics, gingers, spring onions, onions, chilli and fried it until it has all the fragrance and changing colour a bit.
Put the clean lobster into the frying pan and stirred it a bit until it changed into pink colour.
Drained the noodle, washed it with cold running water, and put aside, so noodle won’t be soggy.
Put the chilli bean sauce and black bean sauce into the pan, all the soy in, then cornstarch in, quick stirred few more around, add the noodle and veggies. If it looks too thick, add a bit water to loose it up, and then tasted it and see how is the seasoning, and finally add some white pepper.

Enjoy! 🦞🍜

简单20分钟麻婆豆腐🌶️（肉或是素肉都可以）

Ingredients:

Silky tofu one pack (or any white tofu) 一包软/水豆腐
Mince port meat (100-200g) or Quorn mince meat for vegetarian 100g （猪肉碎100-200g,或是素肉Quorn牌子的都可以）
2 pieces gingers – finely chopped (2片姜片剁姜蓉）
2 cloves of garlics (2片蒜剁成蒜蓉）
1 green spring onion – cut into small pieces (1条葱，切小粒）

Sauce: (调汁）

2 tsp Chilli bean Sauce – Medium heat🌶️ (if not into spicy, 1 tsp) (2汤勺豆瓣酱,假如不爱吃辣的，1小汤勺就好）
1 tsp Garlic black bean sauce (蒜蓉豆豉酱1汤勺）
1 tsp Oyster sauce – optional （if you are vegetarian, you can skip this one) （1汤勺蚝汁（假如你是素食的人就不要下）
2 tsp Soy sauce – light soy (2汤勺酱油 – 普通酱油）
1 tsp Sugar (1小汤勺糖）
1 tsp Sesame oil (1小汤勺麻油）
2 tsp Corn starch (2小汤勺玉米调羹）

How to cook: (如何烹饪）

Combined all the sauces into one bowl and prepare the sauce
Drain the tofu and cut into about 2.5 cm cubes
In the frying pan – medium heat, put 3 tsp vegetable oil and fried garlic and ginger, once changing a bit colour and you can smell the fragrant, add the mince pork / Quorn Mince into the pan, and break it up. For mince meat, cook it until a bit golden colour, and not too much water inside the frying pan. Quorn one once it is changing colour from frozen, then you add the sauce.
Keep stirring and add the tofu in
Try to avoid breaking up the tofu, gentle stirring until it is all covered by sauce and mix well, add some spring onion before turning off the heat.
Served with any rice

(I cooked Quorn Mince Mapo tofu in my picture.)