Burgers Today

We started with the ingredients for Garlic, Brown, Sweet and Sour sauce so that you can make Chinese food into everyday food recipes. I want to continue with that and give you the ingredients for XO sauce, Black Bean, and Lobster sauce.

You can buy these sauces already made at your local food chain grocery store or at a local chinese market but I think that it’s always best to add fresh ingredients into your foods because you can control the amount of salt and sugar that goes into a recipe.

XO Sauce
Did you know that the XO in XO sauce comes from Xtra Old Cognac. Don’t worry about serving this sauce to children. The alcohol loses it’s effect when heat and flame are added to it and many people don’t use the alcohol at all.

The ingredients are:
Old Cognac 2 oz
Diced onion
Dried scallop
Fresh red chilli
Ground black pepper
Jinhua ham
Large dried shrimp, shelled
Minced garlic
rapeseed oil
Salted cured fish
Tiny dried shrimp, unshelled

For the dried shrimp, you may have to purchase those at a whole foods, local chinese market, or local spanish market. I haven’t seen tiny dried shrimp on display at major supermarkets, at least not at my major local supermarket.

Black Bean Sauce
peanut oil
fermented black beans
garlic
chicken broth
soy sauce
rice wine
sugar
cornstarch

Lobster Sauce
I love the fact that Chinese Lobster sauce doesn’t actually have Lobster in it but the sauce can be used with Lobster and shrimp. The sauce works really well with Chinese Snow peas, mushrooms, and shrimp.

ground pork
soy sauce
Pepper, to taste
cornstarch
fermented black beans
garlic cloves
green onions (spring onions, scallions)
sherry
granulated sugar
chicken broth
cornstarch
water
2 eggs
salt
cooking oil

That’s it for today. Tomorrow I’ll tell you about more ingredients that you will want in your kitchen to prepare Orange Ginger, Sesame Garlic, Hoisin BBQ, and other sauces for everyday Chinese food recipes.

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