Category: Cooking with ChiliCult

If you can make asparagus bacon-wrapped, you can certainly cook it Hunan-style, with bacon, green chilli, and garlic!

Duo lajiao “chopped chilli” is the major “chilli sauce” and preserve of the Hunan kitchen – and extremely easy to…

Learning something from China about tomatoes seems a strange proposition, but xihongshi jidan tang, the Chinese tomato-egg(drop) soup offers an…

Preserving fruits, certainly in Austria, tends to mean making marmalade. If you don’t want to eat sweet breads, hardly ever…

Hong Shao Rou, Red-Braised Pork. It is often presented as a Shanghai dish. For someone from Hunan, however, it is…

Egg is the most popular ingredient to combine with chun (see recipe here), but the roast onion-aroma of those “vegetable…

Chun, Chinese toon, with its interesting roasted onion-aroma is most commonly combined with scrambled eggs. The recipe for that, no…

This typical Hunan recipe does two things very nicely: First, it turns a firm tofu a bit crispier and therefore…