Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chinese 5-spice salmon stir-fry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Interestingly, Chinese Five Spice is based on the five elements - fire, water, wood, earth and metal. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the five elements are manifested in different parts of the body and when there are imbalances in these elements, illness can result. Five-spice powder (Chinese: 五香粉; pinyin: wǔxiāng fěn) is a spice mixture of five or more spices used predominantly in almost all branches of Chinese cuisines and Vietnamese cuisine.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chinese 5-spice salmon stir-fry using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese 5-Spice Salmon Stir-fry:
- Take 2 salmon steaks
- Get Sesame oil
- Make ready Chinese 5-spice
- Prepare 1 or 2 red or yellow peppers, sliced
- Get 1 or 2 red onions, finely sliced
- Get 1 or 2 carrots, peeled and cut into thin batons
- Prepare 1 knob fresh ginger, grated
- Make ready 1 or 2 cloves garlic, finely sliced
- Prepare 2 helpings cooked basmati rice
- Prepare 1 handful cashew nuts, roasted and salted
- Make ready 1 squirt of lemon grass paste, if you have it
- Take 1 tiny bit of shrimp paste, if you have it
- Prepare 2 handfuls baby spinach, roughly chopped
- Make ready Thai fish sauce
- Take 4-6 tablespoons soy sauce
- Make ready juice of half a lemon and wedges for serving
- Take fresh mint, chopped
Meanwhile, heat sesame oil in large nonstick skillet. Add mushrooms and ginger; cook and stir until mushrooms are soft. Stir in bok choy and cook until heated through. Five-spice—a blend of star anise, fennel seeds, and more—lends its sweet, savory aroma to salmon, complemented by a simple pan sauce made with rice To accompany the salmon, we're serving three delicious sides: crisp, garlicky bok choy, mashed sweet potatoes with a hint of ginger, and roasted.
Instructions to make Chinese 5-Spice Salmon Stir-fry:
- Preheat the grill. Put the salmon steaks in a grill pan, I line it with foil to save washing up. Drizzle some sesame oil over the top and sprinkle generously with the 5-spice mixture. Place under a hot grill until crisp on the top and just cooked inside. This will only take 6 to 10 minutes.
- Once the salmon is cooked, flake it into chunks and peel off and discard the skin, pour over a little shake of soy sauce and lemon juice and set aside.
- Start to fry all the vegetables, if you have a wok you can probably do them all in one go, in a frying pan it might be better to do them in batches. Don't fry for too long, everything needs to keep some crispness and texture. When the peppers are just beginning to char at the edges, add the ginger, garlic, lemon grass and shrimp paste. Stir until you can smell the fragrances, then tip the vegetables on to a plate.
- Quickly return the pan to the heat and fry the cooked rice and the cashews, then return the vegetables to the pan, stir in the chopped spinach, add 2 or 3 teaspoons of fish sauce, depending on how much you like it, and 3 to 4 tablespoons of soy sauce. Stir until the spinach has wilted then add the salmon chunks and the juice of half a lemon. Taste. Add more soy sauce or lemon juice to taste.
- Serve piled in bowls, topped with fresh mint.
The five basic ingredients for Chinese five spice powder are star aniseed (大料), fennel seeds(小茴 Health tip: Five-spice powder combines the advantages of various spice and an appreciate amount can help to improve body immunity. Use it in stir fry recipes. Five Spice Powder is a blend of cinnamon, cloves, fennel, star anise, and Szechwan peppercorns. Further amplify the rub by adding ginger The flat top does the burgers and the fryer does the fries. Use the griddle for bacon, eggs, and home fries.
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