Vegetarian wheat gluten or 齋鹵味 (lo mei) is a delicacy in Hong Kong. It looks like meat and even meat lovers like to eat this. But it definitely is vegetarian because it is made out of high gluten flour. This is how you make it and there is no recipe!
1) First you make the dough
- high gluten flour - self raising flour - water - salt
2) Then you fry them
3) You cook them in your favourite sauce Soy Sauce:
This is the first time I made green curry and it is pretty sweet.
One comment though: only add lime juice, not the whole lime or it will taste a bit bitter. But it is very good still, especially when I've never made it.
Ingredients for green curry paste:
- Green peppers
- Ginger
- Koriander
- Koriander seeds
- Chili Oil
- Coconut milk
- Milk
- Lemon balm
- Lime juice
- Salt & Pepper
- Cumin
Ingredients for vegetables:
- Broccoli
- Green pepper
- Carrot
- Zucchini
- Egg plant
- Pumpkin
This is a very easy dish to make and very delicious.
You just need to mix together:
- Fried tofu
- Dark soy sauce
- Hot bean sauce
- Chili oil
- Oister sauce
- Quorn
- Sesame oil
- Thickening agent (maizena)
Here is how to make vegetarian char siu pork belly.
You only need:
- 1/2 kilo self raising flour
- 1 kilo wheat gluten powder
- water
- red rice yeast
- honey/maltose/brown sugar
- tomato concentrate
- (dark) soy sauce
- ketjap/ketchup
- mushroom flavour
- salt
- red fermented bean curd (which I didn't have in house)
Part 1:
Add water to the flour (self raising flour + wheat gluten powder) and let it sit.
Boil the red rice yeast for 15 min.
Part 2:
Wash the dough.
Steam the dough for 20 min.
Fry the dough.
Part 3:
Make the honey sauce from the red yeast sauce and add ketjap, sugar, salt, tomato paste, soy sauce.
Lo Pak Ko is a delicious appetizer in many Hong Kong restaurants. Actually it is easy to make, but it takes a lot of time to do so.
The ingredients for a group of people are:
- 1 Chinese White Radish (Daikon) (1350 g) (which I will call white beet for convenience)
- 1600 ml water
- 450 g rice flour
- Chinese mushrooms
- Quorn vegetarian meat
- salt
- sugar
- pepper
- sesame oil
- sun flower oil
First we prepare the ingredients. Mix 2/3 of the water with the rice
flour. The mushrooms need to be soaked in hot water, then chopped in thin slices. Chop the daikon in
thin slices. Prepare a steaming pan with some sun flower oil for later
on.
Now we pan fry the mushrooms, daikon and vegetarian
quorn meat with the rest of the water. We add salt, sugar, pepper, sesame oil to taste. Cook it
for about 15 minutes, turn off the heat, then add the rice flour
mixture. Mix until it becomes a sticky substance.
Put it in the oiled steaming pan and we steam it for about 1 hour until it sets. Leave it to cool for 2 hours. Best is to even let it cool down in the fridge for a night. It will cut better.
Next on we chop them into square blocks and pan fry them in some oil.
That's a lot of work..., but it's worth it. I like to use spicy oil with this.
This vegetarian Peking duck recipe is one that will surprise you. It tastes just like real duck. It's a recipe that is being used throughout all vegetarian restaurants in Hong Kong.
What you will need is fresh frozen bean curd sheets like this one. Do not use the dried bean curd sheets as it will not work, you will need frozen bean curd sheets. The texture should be like "plastic". These bean curd sheets are made out of soy beans.
So the first thing you do is fold them up, moisten them up in a bowl of water until they are white colored and have the soft texture. This will take half an hour. Afterwards we make sure the water gets drained, we put some holes in the "duck" and deep fry them.
Here's how you prepare it.
Here's how you fry it.
And here's how you make the sauce and mix it with the fried bean curd sheets. We use: anis, sesame oil, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, vegetarian oyster sauce, salt, sugar, mushroom flavour and water. Just throw them together and the magic will happen.
Then we just cut up the duck and we have created Vegetarian Duck!
This is my favourite Chinese dish, I always eat this at the restaurant and it's vegetarian.
Basically you need 2 things. The egg noodles and the vegetable mix. Let's start with the egg noodles.
1) Egg noodles
You need to find yourself these thin dried egg noodles. Any brand is ok. I use the Sau Tao Egg Noodle brand.
Boil them in water for 5 minutes until they are loosened up. Strain them until dry, then fry them in sunflower oil until they are crispy. Don't fry them too long. That's the first part.
2) Vegetable mix
You will need fried tofu, blanched broccoli, shitake, green vegetables, sliced carrots. Anything will do. Put a good amount of oil in your wok and add all your ingredients. Stir fry them while adding some salt and pepper. Also add water to create a base for the soy sauce. After cooking it for several minutes you will add the soy sauce. I use a mixture of oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, sesame oil and light soy sauce. When the taste is ok, lower the heat and add a potato flour/water mixture to thicken the sauce. It's all experimental. Just try it. What you can also do is add all the ingredients together and then pour the sauce in the vegetable mix all together.
These are the sauces that I use.
Wan Ja Shan Vegetarian Oyster Sauce
Kimlan Light Soy Sauce
Lee Kum Kee Dark Soy Sauce
Potato Flour to Thicken Sauce
Then you just pour the sauce on top of the fried egg noodles and it's done!
Normally this is done with pork, but I use vegetarian pork.
Here is how we make Hum Sui Kok, a delicacy especially in Hong Kong. You should try it.
The recipe for the dough is like this:
40 g tang flour (same as wheat starch)
160 g glutinous rice flour
60 g sugar
40 g palm oil
1/4 cup of boiling water
125 ml cold water
Let's try making the dough.
First we have the ingredients:
Then we knead the dough. I just mix everything together, but if you want to do it properly, you can use cold water for the glutinous rice flour and boiling water for the wheat starch.:
Make balls:
And fry it low to medium heat:
What you put in the dough, you can choose yourself. Experiment with it!
As you know I'm a vegetarian so I don't eat meat, fish, chicken. For those vegetarians out there I will give a delicious recipe for lasagna.
You will need a lot of ingredients:
- lasagna sheets
- butter
- basil
- red wine
- tomatoes
- flour
- white wine
- nutmeg
- spinach
- mushrooms
- concentrated tomato paste
- olive oil
- lemon juice
- thyme
- oregano
- rasped cheese
- parmezan
- mascarpone
First we make the Bechamel sauce, which is basically a mixture of flour, cream, butter, water and nutmeg (optional: white wine). It's pretty standard. Don't add too much flour, or you will have a lot of sauce. Make the sauce thick enough.
And this is how I made the lasagna. Try it yourself!
After having baked it for almost an hour on medium heat, I added the cheese on top of it and let it bake for another few minutes on high heat. This is the result...
Without Cheese on Top:
With Cheese on Top:
Conclusion:
Very good taste, the only comment I have on myself is that the spinach was a little bit darkened because I cooked it for too long. Almost an hour cooking. Next time don't overcook the lasagna! Half an hour is enough.
