Chicken with Pine Seeds in Green (翠玉松子鸡丁)

This is a starter for two.

Ingredients:

1. a piece of chicken breast, slice to small cubes (less than 1 cm³);
2. ¼ cup of roasted pine seeds (optional: roasted peanuts or cashew nuts);
3. half of a sweet pepper, chop to small pieces;
4. 1 tsp of light soy sauce, a pinch of salt, a pinch of sugar;
5. half of a spring onion, chopped;
6. 2 pieces of lettuce leaves.

Method:

1. add 2 tbsp of veg oil in a stir-fry pan, and then warm it up;
2. add the chicken cubes in, stir fry;
3. add the soy sauce, salt and sugar, stir well;
4. when the chicken is well cooked, add in the sweet pepper and pine seeds, stir well;
5. serve on the lettuce leaves, sprinkle the chopped spring onion on top.

Tip: add a tsp of sesame oil can enhance the Chinese flavour.

油条 （Chinese Style Yorkshire Pudding）

It tastes like Yorkshire pudding. I therefore call it Chinese Yorkshire pudding.

Ingredients: 1 cup of self-raising flour, 1 cup of plain flour, a tsp of active east, ¾ cup of cold water, a pinch of salt.

Method:
1. Before go to bed, make a soft dough using all the ingredients. Cover it and leave it in a cool place over night.
2. Use the dough the following day.
3. Brush a layer of oil on the board and your hands, knead the dough for 2 minutes.
4. Make thumb-size strips with the dough.


5. Heat up the oil to medium to high temperature in a deep-fry pan.
6. Just before deep fry the strips, put one strip on another, hold the two ends and stretch to 2 times length, immediately put them into the pan. Deep fry till light golden brown.


Serve suggestions:
Dip with any sauce you like.
Use it just like Yorkshire pudding.