Content Index

Recipes and writing from Chill Crisp

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Pantry Basics

• Doubanjiang (chili bean paste)

• Chinese black vinegar

• Sichuan pepper

• Chinese soy sauce

• Homemade sweet fermented rice (Laozao)

• Fresh tofu blocks

• Seasoned, dried, fried and fermented tofu

• Sesame oil and sesame paste

• Chinese preserved vegetables (Yacai, Zhacai, Caipu)

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Chicken & Eggs

• Kung Pao chicken

• Braised chicken with mushrooms (Huang men ji)

• Sichuan mouth-watering chicken (Kou shui ji)

• Steamed eggs (Zheng Dan)

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Pork

• Crispy fried Sichuan pepper pork (su rou)

• Tangcu sweet and sour pork ribs

• Homemade Sichuan wind-cured sausages

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Beef & Lamb

• Steak with doubanjiang butter sauce

• Beef stew with daikon radish and tofu skin

• Lamb and daikon radish stew

• Sichuan water-boiled beef (shuizhu niurou)

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Vegetable

• 5-ingredient long beans in ginger sauce

• Steamed eggplants with charred pepper sauce

• Smashed cucumber salad

• Quick soy-vinegar cucumber and daikon pickles

• Sichuan fish-fragrant eggplant

• Mapo zucchini

• Cucumber salad with perilla leaves

• Hand-torn cabbage stir-fry

• Romaine lettuce with Chines sesame dressing

• Dry pot cauliflower

• Blanched asparagus salad with mala dressing

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Tofu

• Mapo tofu

• Sichuan home-style tofu (Jiachang doufu)

• Soy-maple braised tofu with Brussels sprouts

• Tofu with century eggs

• Stir-fried smoked tofu with garlic chives

• Quick five-spice tofu salad with pepper and cilantro

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Noodles

• Scissor-cut noodles with brown butter sauce

• Noodles with minced meat sauce (za jiang mian)

• Sweet-water noodles (tian shui mian)

• Sichuan jelly noodles (liang fen)

• Scallion oil noodles (with braised pork cutlet)

• Sichuan cold noodles with shredded chicken

• Hot and sour sweet potato noodles (suan la fen)

• Yunnan small pot rice noodles

• Cantonese wonton noodle soup

• Sichuan Yibin burning noodles (ran mian)

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Rice

• Soy sauce fried rice

• Plain white congee

• Chicken and shiitake congee

• Egg fried rice with green asparagus

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Dumplings

• Handmade dumpling dough wrapper

• Steamed pumpkin dumplings

• Pan-fried dumplings with ramps, eggs and vermicelli

• Kale and pork dumplings

• Zhong dumplings

• Tofu and chive pocket

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Seafood

• Garlicky shrimp with vermicelli and cabbage

• Braised large shrimp (youmen daxia)

• Buttery asparagus shrimp stir-fry with douchi

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Sauces

• Homemade Sichuan chili oil

• Homemade crunchy chili crisp

• Homemade scallion oil

• Homemade Sichuan pepper oil and ground Sichuan pepper

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Small eats and desserts

• Xi’an pork rou jia mo

• Beijing-style zucchini pancakes (hu ta zi)

• Sticky rice with snow fungus dessert soup

• Mango sago with sticky rice balls

• Sichuan hand-scrubbed bing fen jelly

• Black sesame tang yuan (sticky rice balls)

• Extra-crunchy mala preserved daikon radish

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Food travel and writing

• Southern Sichuan, Zigong and Yibin

• Eating vegetarian food in a Buddhist temple

• 72 hours in Xi’an, home of Biang Biang Noodles

• Sichuan farmers’ market

• Chill Crisp 2024 wrapped and gift guide

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