Chinese food?

elphie754 · February 2015

So I was wondering if anyone knew any good places to go to find Chinese food recipes. I woke up craving Chinese food (which is weird because I haven't had it in 2+ years) but can not order out.

saires_au · February 2015

Google slow cooker cashew chicken. Delicious. I add 1/4 cabbage, red capsicum (bell pepper) zucchini and broccoli about 30-60 min before serving

shadow2soul · February 2015

I like myrecipes. It's a pretty cool site and you can filter recipes based on "World Cuisine."

myrecipes.com/chinese-recipes

elphie754 · February 2015

saires_au wrote: »

Google slow cooker cashew chicken. Delicious. I add 1/4 cabbage, red capsicum (bell pepper) zucchini and broccoli about 30-60 min before serving

Sounds good. Will definitely look it up.

shadow2soul wrote: »

I like myrecipes. It's a pretty cool site and you can filter recipes based on "World Cuisine."

myrecipes.com/chinese-recipes

Awesome. Thanks.

missiontofitness · February 2015

http://damndelicious.net/2013/10/19/chinese-orange-chicken/

My favorite orange chicken recipe.

Liftng4Lis · February 2015

missiontofitness wrote: »

http://damndelicious.net/2013/10/19/chinese-orange-chicken/

My favorite orange chicken recipe.

Looks good, you have nutritional info on this one?

missiontofitness · February 2015

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

missiontofitness wrote: »

http://damndelicious.net/2013/10/19/chinese-orange-chicken/

My favorite orange chicken recipe.

Looks good, you have nutritional info on this one?

Why yes, yes I do! I imported it directly, and changed everything based on the brands I used. The calories will be lower, since not all the corn starch and oil is used based on my experience. I underlog oil for this reason; most of what I poured into the pan was still there after I was done cooking the recipe, plus I drained and patted down the chicken after it was fried before tossing it in the sauce, so I account for the fact that the calories are a tiny bit lower than the recipe builder tells me.

elphie754 · February 2015

missiontofitness wrote: »

http://damndelicious.net/2013/10/19/chinese-orange-chicken/

My favorite orange chicken recipe.

Wow, that looks amazing. I wonder it would work with duck instead of chicken. Duck is better in my opinion with citrus sauces.

elphie754 · February 2015

missiontofitness wrote: »

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

missiontofitness wrote: »

http://damndelicious.net/2013/10/19/chinese-orange-chicken/

My favorite orange chicken recipe.

Looks good, you have nutritional info on this one?

Why yes, yes I do! I imported it directly, and changed everything based on the brands I used. The calories will be lower, since not all the corn starch and oil is used based on my experience. I underlog oil for this reason; most of what I poured into the pan was still there after I was done cooking the recipe, plus I drained and patted down the chicken after it was fried before tossing it in the sauce, so I account for the fact that the calories are a tiny bit higher than the recipe builder tells me.

Wow! Not nearly as high in calories as I would have thought.

missiontofitness · February 2015

elphie754 wrote: »

missiontofitness wrote: »

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

missiontofitness wrote: »

http://damndelicious.net/2013/10/19/chinese-orange-chicken/

My favorite orange chicken recipe.

Looks good, you have nutritional info on this one?

Why yes, yes I do! I imported it directly, and changed everything based on the brands I used. The calories will be lower, since not all the corn starch and oil is used based on my experience. I underlog oil for this reason; most of what I poured into the pan was still there after I was done cooking the recipe, plus I drained and patted down the chicken after it was fried before tossing it in the sauce, so I account for the fact that the calories are a tiny bit higher than the recipe builder tells me.

Wow! Not nearly as high in calories as I would have thought.

I know! I inputted it as six servings (since I cook it in 4oz raw chicken batches) to factor in that rice and possibly another side would be served with it as well, but it's definitely one I can eat on its own straight from the bowl, haha.

Edit: also realized a typo in my OP. Calories are lower*, not higher, because of the oil.

elphie754 · February 2015

missiontofitness wrote: »

elphie754 wrote: »

missiontofitness wrote: »

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

missiontofitness wrote: »

http://damndelicious.net/2013/10/19/chinese-orange-chicken/

My favorite orange chicken recipe.

Looks good, you have nutritional info on this one?

Why yes, yes I do! I imported it directly, and changed everything based on the brands I used. The calories will be lower, since not all the corn starch and oil is used based on my experience. I underlog oil for this reason; most of what I poured into the pan was still there after I was done cooking the recipe, plus I drained and patted down the chicken after it was fried before tossing it in the sauce, so I account for the fact that the calories are a tiny bit higher than the recipe builder tells me.

Wow! Not nearly as high in calories as I would have thought.

I know! I inputted it as six servings (since I cook it in 4oz raw chicken batches) to factor in that rice and possibly another side would be served with it as well, but it's definitely one I can eat on its own straight from the bowl, haha.

Edit: also realized a typo in my OP. Calories are lower*, not higher, because of the oil.

Haha. I made chicken stir-fry the other day and intended to have it with rice since it would fit into my calorie alottment. What actually happened? I ate the entire pan fil of the stir fry and totally forgot I had the rice in the microwave lol.

Liftng4Lis · February 2015

Awesomeness- I'm having this! Thanks!

higgins8283801 · February 2015

Google skinnytaste Chinese. She has one but for the life of me I can't remember what she called it. It was pretty good.

Paul_Collyer · February 2015

A quality Chinese takeaway in North London that supplies nutritional info is my holy grail! Nearest thing is Wagamamma......need more

Sued0nim · February 2015

elphie754 wrote: »

So I was wondering if anyone knew any good places to go to find Chinese food recipes. I woke up craving Chinese food (which is weird because I haven't had it in 2+ years) but can not order out.

What do you like

I make a yummy beef and green bean chinese - really easy

elphie754 · February 2015

Paul_Collyer wrote: »

A quality Chinese takeaway in North London that supplies nutritional info is my holy grail! Nearest thing is Wagamamma......need more

I can't do take out at all, regardless of if nutritional info is avaliable or not.

rabbitjb wrote: »

elphie754 wrote: »

So I was wondering if anyone knew any good places to go to find Chinese food recipes. I woke up craving Chinese food (which is weird because I haven't had it in 2+ years) but can not order out.

What do you like

I make a yummy beef and green bean chinese - really easy

I like most things lol. Beef and broccoli, meats with citrus sauces, veggies, rices, pretty much all dishes I can tweak to be gf.

Fayeworth · February 2015

Chicken chow mein is good, it's got loads of stir fry ingredients so much better than most things from a chinese.

wkwebby · February 2015

Try looking on Allrecipes.com. They pretty much have any kind of food recipes that you can think of. Search a particular dish or ingredient and the list pops up. Don't use the app, that is a waste of time. The website is free, but you can pay for stuff if you want to use it for other things. I used a sweet and sour pork dish that came out delicious and the calories per serving was fairly low (until you put in the white rice to soak up all the sauce).

It was a great recipe though with sweet, sour, and spicy flavors.

The recipe box is free on the website so you can save the favorites while you're browsing and then go back to it later on. It's a neat little site that I have always recommended.