Chinese Food

[flagbabyds]

I have cravings for chinese food. Does anyone have any good recipes?

Thanks!

[Carriefaith]

I have one! I love this meal!

Chinese Stirfry

2-3 tablespoons olive oil

2-3 cups of white rice

You can add cooked bite size chicken or beef to this if you're feeling adventurous

Veggies:

1 medium Nappa cabbage, cut up into bite size pieces

1 large red pepper (or 2 small), cut up into very small portions

5-7 green onions (depending on how much you like them), sliced thin

2 cups chinese bean sprouts

1 small can water chestnuts

Sauce: (you can half the ingredients if you don't like lots of sauce)

2 cups water (depending on how much sauce you like)

2 McCormick all-vegetable Bouillon (vegetable, chicken, or beef)

2 tablespoons of VH soy sauce

2 tablespoons of corn starch (add more if you want it thicker)

2 tablespoons white sugar

2 tablespoons white wine (optional, just adds flavour)

You will need a large stir fry pan, skillet, or pot.

- Cook rice while preparing stirfry

- Place olive oil in pot and cook red pepper for about 5 mintues over medium heat.

- Place nappa in with oil and pepper and cook 5 mintues over medium heat. Be careful it doesn't burn.

- Add the rest of veggies and all the ingredients for the sauce, add the liquids first and then the dry ingredients.

- cover and cook on low heat for about 15 minutes or until all veggies are done. stir often to avoid buring.

Serve Over Rice and Enjoy!

[cdford]

Me too! It is one of the foods I miss most and I am really out of luck since I can't have soy either.

[Guest nini]

I made a sweet and sour sauce the other night to pour over stir fry chicken and my whole family loved it. Then the next night I made beef with broccoli stir fry served with rice both nights and La Choy soy sauce on the beef with broccoli.

sweet and sour sauce

1/3 cup rice vinegar

4 TB brown sugar

1 TB Heinz ketchup

1 tsp La Choy soy sauce

2 tsp. cornstarch mixed with 4 tsp. water

mix all the ingredients except cornstarch and water into a small pot and bring to a boil stirring constantly. Remove from heat then add cornstarch mixture to thicken. Stir thoroughly.(you can also add some honey to taste, sliced pineapple chunks, and cut up green pepper if you like... do this before bringing to a boil)

for the chicken I just sliced it into strips and stir fried in olive oil.

for the beef with broccoli I took wafer thin boneless steaks and sliced into strips, stir fried in olive oil, then added the chopped up broccoli, 1/2 cup water, put a lid on and steamed for 20 minutes.

[flagbabyds]

I made this last night and it was really good, even though the batter didn't stick to the chicken, it looked kind of funny, but it tasted alright.

hinese Lemon Chicken

CDKitchen Open Original Shared Link

Category: Lemon Chicken

Serves/Makes: 6

[Carriefaith]

Yum! Those recipes look so good!

I used to love lemon chicken, I'll have to give that recipe a try sometime.

[tarnalberry]

I just take any set of cut up meat and vegetables (a colorful variety, of course, chinese food is about pleasing the eyes, teeth, and tastebuds), and use some combination of the following:

* San-J soy sauce (~2 tbsp)

* lemon juice (~1 tsp)

* Thai Kitchen's Chili Paste (~1-2 tbsp)

* Thai Kitchen's Chili Sauce (~1 tsp)

* ground ginger (~1/4 tsp)

* fresh garlic (~1 tbsp)

* red chili flakes (~ 1/2 tsp)

I don't use all those ingredients normally (but sometimes), and always let the chili flakes cook in the oil (canola) for ~30 seconds or so before adding anything else to the pan.

(I've used chicken breast, chicken thigh, pork tenderloin, pork chops, salmon, and tilapia for this, and one to four of the following vegetables: baby broccoli, carrots, onions, bell pepper (red, yellow, or orange), sugar snap peas, snow peas, and bok choy. (Those vegetable choices are only because those are the ones my husband will eat. ;-) ) )

[gf4life]

Okay, with all the cooking we have to do at home I am always looking for shortcuts. I hate having to make my own sauce. My absolute favorite sauce to cook chinese food with is called Greta's Sesame-Soy Marinade. She only makes two sauces and both are gluten-free. You can read more about them here: Open Original Shared Link

If you can't find it locally, you can buy it on the site.

It is so good, but I have to limit myself with it, since I am allergic to soy and have to take benadryl with the meal...but when I'm craving chinese it is wonderful!

God bless,

Mariann

[tarnalberry]

mariann,

you can always eliminate the soy sauce from the spices I use above. (it's not making a separate sauce, it's just throwing those spices in the wok with the stuff I stir-fry.)

[gf4life]

Thanks Tiffany. I'm not sure I could handle the spicy of all those chili pepper ingredients though. I hadn't been able to tolerate spicy chinese food for years before being gluten-free. I wonder if I could digest it better now...

God bless,

Mariann

[skbird]

Awesome! Thanks for the lemon chicken recipe - I was looking for one last night (had a craving) and couldn't find one.

Cool!

Stephanie

[Twister2]

Here's my favorite gluten-free chinese style recipe. My dad once took a Cantonese cooking course and I learned this from him. Everyone loves this recipe, Celiacs and Non-Celiacs alike!

Chicken and Snow Pea's

-Cooked white Jasmine rice ( or whatever rice you like)

-4 chicken breasts cut into thin strips

-Fresh Snow pea's ends trimmed and washed

-2 Tbs corn starch mixed with water

-1 Tbs white sugar

-1 Can gluten-free chicken broth

-1Tbs freshly minced garlic

-1 1/2 Tbs freshly grated ginger root

-1/2 Cup gluten-free soy sauce (I use San-J)

Directions:

1. Mix together soy sauce, garlic and ginger to make a marinade. Marinate chicken pieces in it for about 15-20 minutes. Reserve remainder of marinade for sauce.

2. Saute marinated chicken in 1 tbs of olive oil until cooked and tender.

3. Add Snow Pea's to chicken along with the whole can of chicken broth.

4. Add sugar and remaninder of the soy marinade to the mixture. Cook another 5-10 minutes.

5. Add in the corn starch and water mixture bit by bit or until desired thickness of sauce is attained.

6. Cook about another 10-15 minutes, be sure snow peas are not over cooked, add them last if you desire them crisp.

7. Serve over white rice and enjoy!!!

[Carriefaith]

Molly,

I tried your lemon chicken recipe and it was awesome I really liked it! ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm Although I forgot to put in the ginger

I know what you mean about the batter not sticking... I'm guessing that the oil in the pan has to be really hot, and then the batter may stick better. Of coarse I am very impatient and put the chicken in before the oil got hot and most of the batter fell off.

[sonjaf]

I am new to this site and new to having celiac disease- just diagnosed in March 2005. I really miss Chinese food too! I was wondering if you can give me more info on the gluten-free soy sauces that were mentioned, and where is the best place to get them. I have been missing it and would love to be able to have soy sauce again.

Thanks,

S

[Carriefaith]

I use VH soy sauce and I can get it in my local grocery store. Hope this helps

[Carriefaith]

VH cherry sauce tastes very similar to the sauce that you get on chicken balls at chinese restaurants. I just had some last night and today with chinese tuna and rice. The sauce is amazing.

Open Original Shared Link

Here is the email that I got from VH

Thank you for contacting ConAgra Foods Canada Inc., with your questions.

ConAgra Foods Canada, Inc., has adapted a labeling policy to ensure

individuals with allergen concerns can choose our products with

confidence. If gluten containing ingredients are present in any of our

products it is indicated independently in the list of ingredients. In

addition, a secondary note in bold caption is below the ingredient list,

stating what the allergen is, i.e. CONTAINS: WHEAT

At this time our gluten free products include: VH Dips and Sauces

EXCEPT Teriyaki Stir Fry Sauce; Hunts' Puddings, Tomatoes, Pastes, Pasta

Sauces, including Healthy Choice and Manwich Sloppy Joe Sauce; Orville

Redenbacher Popcorn; ACT II Microwave Popcorn and PAM No Stick Cooking

Spray EXCEPT PAM for Baking.

NOTE: Re-formulation may occur possibly changing the information,

therefore we strongly suggest the ingredient label be reviewed with each

purchase.

We hope this information has been helpful for you and appreciate your

dedication to our products.

Sincerely,

Consumer Communications

[swittenauer]

Are their any chinese foods you can buy in the store like LaChoy or anything that are gluten free or how about Chinese restaurants....are they 100% out? I would assume so but it never hurts to ask. We have steered clear of them.

[momandgirls]

La Choy brand soy sauce is gluten free.

There are two Chinese restaurants near me and we've tried investigating whether it was possible to eat there anymore. One used Kikkoman soy sauce (contains wheat) and the other uses a soy sauce brand where the label is written entirely in Chinese (they brought it out to show me). I know that it's possible to ask for a dish without soy sauce but I guess I'm just too nervous about it - at least at this point. It is hard, though, when you have cravings for it.

[amybeth]

If one is near you, Wegman's has a sweet and sour sauce that's clearly labeled gluten-free and tastes just like Sweet and Sour that you get at a chinese place.......I had it the other night over rice with Ian's nuggets -- super quick, easy, and yummy. Next time I'm going to add veggies.

It's in a black bottle in the ethnic food section.