Chinese Appetizer Recipes

What kind of dishes is easy-to-make, increases appetite, and wins high praise even after a meal? The answer is appetizer.

Nutrition, price and availability are the main concern when it comes to choosing its ingredients. The flavor of a dish varies since some people may care for light flavors while others prefer the hot spicy ones. The function of appetizers is to tease the taste buds so as to lift the mood and appetite for the meal. Thus, savory sauces need to be carefully added while preparing these dishes. For example, the Five-Flavor sauce, an often-used sauce in making appetizers, is made of irreplaceable flavors such as soy sauce paste, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, as well as garlic scallion, red hot peppers, garlic and coriander. Almost every dish contains fragrant, salty, sour, hot and sweet flavors. As a result, not only does it look appealing with its bright colors but it can also be served in various occasions, feasts or household gatherings, because of its mouthwatering effect.

In this website, we present a selection of low-cholesterol, low-fat and delicious appetizers. You can try different 'methods' to make fresh appetizers, the way to make three-minute quick fried dishes with light spice or salty fragrance - the spicy appetizers, and the way to make deep-fried tangy crispy appetizers. Each recipe has the ingredients and easy steps to follow to ensure that you can prepare the tasty appetizer cuisine easily on your own at home. Three basic type of appetizers that would be shared in this website.

The spicy appetizers:

These appetite-arousing dishes have such a character: the hot spices tingle only after you already swallow them; you don't feel the tang at the time you enjoy in your mouth the original tastes of the foods. The tang zip inside you is therefore fascinating when you eat. They wake up your appetite and tempt you for more.

Below is a list of spicy appetizers:

 

1.Fried Spicy Dried Shrimps with XO Sauce	2.Bitter Gourd with Chili Soybean Paste
3.Kidney Beans with Red Oil	4.Spicy Shredded Pickled Mustard Tuber
5.Spicy Shredded Turnip	6.Salted Mustard Green with Dried Bean Curd
7.Squid with Chinese Pepper	8.Deep Fried Grass Carp with Spring Onion
9.Fried Spicy Squid

The tangy crispy appetizers:

These fast-and-easy-to-make dishes are cleverly created by combining devices of several cuisines. The recipes fully elicit the quality of the ingredients even though only simple methods are used. An amazingly tempting dish can be prepared in a few minutes. Without going out you can be entertained at home. The
tangy crispy taste is worth a try. Below is a list of tangy crispy appetizers:

 

1.Braised Duck Tongue with Red Fermented Rice Wine Paste	2.Deep Fried Banded Coral Shrimps with Salt
3.Pickled Small Mussels with Garlic	4.Deep Fried Meat Balls Coated with Dried Small Shrimps
5.Dried Anchovies with Fermented Black Beans	6.Salted Fish with Asplenium
7.Five Flavors Peanuts	8.Braised Pork Chop with Dried Oysters
9.Deep Fried Dried Anchovies with Honey Sauce	10.Sliced Pig Ear with Spring Onion

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