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The phrase rechao (Chinese: 熱炒) combines the Chinese characters for "hot" (Chinese: 熱) and "stir-fry" (Chinese: 炒) and is the Mandarin pronunciation for those characters. [1] [2] It is employed as a verb and a noun. [1] The name comes from how the food is cooked at a high temperature to exterminate bacteria. [3]
The Korean name for napa cabbage, baechu (배추), is a nativized word from the Sino-Korean reading, baekchae, of the same Chinese character sets. Today in Mandarin Chinese, napa cabbage is known as dàbáicài (大白菜), literally "big white vegetable", as opposed to the "small white vegetable" that is known in English as bok choy.
In American Chinese cuisine, it is a stir-fried dish consisting of noodles, meat (chicken being most common but pork, beef, shrimp or tofu sometimes being substituted), onions and celery. It is often served as a specific dish at westernized Chinese restaurants .
In this vegetarian version of a Chinese-American favorite, oven-baked tofu gets tossed in a savory, sweet, and slightly spicy sauce along with crisp-tender broccoli, then topped with toasty sesame ...
The term "stir fry" as a translation for "chao" was coined in the 1945 book How To Cook and Eat in Chinese, by Buwei Yang Chao. The book told the reader: Roughly speaking, ch'ao may be defined as a big-fire-shallow-fat-continual-stirring-quick-frying of cut-up material with wet seasoning. We shall call it 'stir-fry' or 'stir' for short.
American Chinese cuisine is a cuisine derived from Chinese cuisine that was developed by Chinese Americans. The dishes served in many North American Chinese restaurants are adapted to American tastes and often differ significantly from those found in China. History Theodore Wores, 1884, Chinese Restaurant, oil on canvas, 83 x 56 cm, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento Chinese immigrants arrived in ...
Chinese Pinyin Description Plain stir-fry or Simple stir-fry: 清炒: qīngchǎo: To stir-fry a single ingredient (with aromatics and sauces). A plain stir-fry using garlic is known as 蒜炒, suànchǎo. [4] Dry stir-fry or Dry wok stir-fry: 煸炒: biānchǎo: To stir-fry a combination of protein and vegetable ingredients (with a small amount ...
2 tbsp cornstarch; 1 3 / 4 cup Swanson® Chicken Broth or Swanson® Chicken Stock; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 1 / 2 tsp ground ginger; 4 cup cut-up fresh vegetables (broccoli florets, sliced carrots ...