A Shanghai American School Multicultural Cookbook by Grade 2 Students Cooking 2 gether
Apr 06, 2016
A Shanghai American School Multicultural Cookbook by Grade 2 Students
Cooking 2gether
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Inspired by all children Dedicated to children of the Jacaranda School Created in the spirit of life, growth, and hope
Grade 2Shanghai American School
December 2014
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Conversion Tables
Ingredients
• 3 ripe bananas
• 1 tsp. sugar
• 1/8 tsp. salt
• 75 grams ufa (cornmeal or flour)
• oil for frying
• sugar mixed with cinnamon to sprinkle on the zitumbuwa
Instructions
1. Peel the bananas, slice and add to a bowl.
2. Using a fork mash with the sugar and salt until you have a smooth paste.
3. Stir in the cornmeal or flour until thoroughly mixed.
4. Heat oil to a depth of 5cm in a work, or use a deep fryer. When the oil is hot drop in teaspoonfuls of the banana and maize meal batter and fry until golden brown on both sides.
5. Drain on kitchen paper, roll in the cinnamon sugar and serve warm.
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Zitumbuwa (Banana Fritters)This food is from the Malawian culture.
2SN
Our 2SN children are unique and are made up of many different cultures. We are a community of wonderful personalities, diverse experiences, and an abundance of energy. Our 2SN community also includes our class pets, two rabbits and a dog.
Ingredients
• rice
• seaweed (normal size)
• wrapper
• salt (1 bottle and shake a little on)
Instructions
1. First, you get the wrapper and rice.
2. Next,you drop the rice into the wrapper.
3. Then,you close the top of the wrapper and roll the rice into a ball,and take it out of the wrapper.
4. At last, you put the seaweed on the bottom and shake some salt on and wait about for 1~3 minutes and enjoy your lunch!
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Akiyo’s Rice Balls This food is from the Japanese culture.
Ingredients
• wonton wrapper
• pork
• minced fresh ginger root
• cloves garlic minced
• 2 spoonfuls thin sliced green onion
• 4 spoonfuls soy sauce
• 3 spoonfuls sesame oil
• 1 egg beaten
• 5 cups filled with cabbage
Instructions
1. Get a big bowl put the pork, ginger, garlic, green onion, soy sauce, sesame oil, egg, and cabbage mix it together.
2. Place one heaping teaspoon of pork filling onto each wonton skin. Moisten edges with water wrappers and fold edges slightly to seal in filling. Set dump-lings aside on lightly floured surface until ready to cook.
3. Cook steam dumplings in a covered bamboo or metal steamer for 20 minutes.
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Amber’s Pork DumplingsThis food is from the Taiwanese culture.
Ingredients
• one pack of “soft” tofu
• 1/2 lbs grounded pork
• 1/2 tablespoon salt
• 2 tablespoon
• soy sauce
• scallion; finely cut
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper (grounded)
Instructions
1. Marinate ground pork with soy sauce first.
2. Heat oil in pan until hot.
3. Stir fry pork until done (slightly hard), about 3 minutes.
4. Add tofu (slice it into 1/2 inch cubes).
5. Add salt, small amount of water if too dry.
6. Cook (simmer) for 3 minutes.
7. Add black pepper, cook for another one minute.
8. Add chopped scallion. Cook for 15 seconds, then remove the dish from the
pan.
9. Ready to serve.
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Benjamin’s Dofu with Minced PorkThis food is from the Taiwanese culture.
Ingredients
• dried seaweed
• rice
• carrot
• crab meat
• yellow pickled radish
• hams
• eggs
• spinach and cucumbers
Instructions
1. The rice is lightly seasoned with salt and sesame oil.
2. Carrots are sliced like sticks and fried. Spinach is boiled and seasoned with salt and sesame oil
3. Eggs are stirred and fried and cut.
4. Put the dried seaweed on your tray and spread the rice on it.
5. Put the carrots, eggs,hams,crab meat,spinach and pickled radish on top of knife.
6. Roll the dried seaweed up round and round. Cut it with your knife.
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Billy’s BimbapThis food is from the Korean culture.
Ingredients
• 1 cup mixed berries
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup ice
• 1 teaspoon honey
• Optional ingredients; 1/2 cup cooked oatmeal
• Pinch of cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
1. Put all ingredients in a blender turn the blender on.
2. Blend on high until mixed enough about 35 seconds.
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Blaise’s Berry BlastThis food is from the American culture.
Ingredients
• 1/2 cup warm water• 5 tsp yeast• 1 pinch white sugar• 1 cup warm milk• 1/3 cup white sugar• 1-1/2 tsp salt• 1 tsp vanilla• 3 eggs• 1/3 cups oil• 5 cups flour• 1 qt oil• 2 cups white sugar• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
1. Mix water,yeast and sugar. Let stand 5 minutes. Stir in milk, sugar, salt, vanilla, eggs, oil. Mix 1/2 flour until dough is stiff. Knead until smooth. Make into a ball. cover for 1 hour.
2. Pinch a piece of dough the size of an egg. Pull into an oval.
3. Heat oil in a deep fryer (4 inches deep). Mix 2 cups of sugar with cinnamon in a shallow dish. Set aside.
4. Lower the pastries 1 at a time, into the hot oil. Fry 1 to 2 minutes per side. Press each pastry into the cinnamon sugar. Shake off excess sugar.
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Cael’s Beaver TailsThis food is from the Canadian culture.
Ingredients
• seaweed
• cucumber
• carrots
• ham
• radish
• eggs
• cooked rice
• sesame oil
• 1 tsp salt
• 1-1/2 tablespoon olive oil
• sesame salt
• bamboo mat
Instructions
1. Mix sesame oil and sesame salt with rice. Cut the ingredients into thin sticks
2. Beat the eggs and whisk. Fry the eggs on the pan and cut it into strips
3. Place the seaweed sheet onto a bamboo mat. Spread the cooked rice on the seaweed sheet
4. Arrange all the ingredients onto the rice. Hold the mat and roll the Gimbab care-fully
5. Cut the Gimbab and serve it on a plate. Enjoy the delicious Gimbab!!!!!!!!11
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Colin’s GimbabThis food is from the Korean culture.
Ingredients• 8 ounces ground chicken
• 2 green onions, sliced
• 2 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated
• 1 clove garlic, crushed
• 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1 egg
• 1 packet wonton wrappers
Dipping sauce:
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
Instructions
1. Combine ground chicken, green onions, garlic, ginger, sesame oil and egg in a mixing bowl.
2. Put a teaspoon of mixture in the center of the wonton wrapper and wrap to enclose the sides.
3. Put dumplings in a steamer lined with baking paper.
4. Put steamer over simmering water for approximately 10 minutes or until cooked through.
5. Serve with dipping sauce. Combine soy sauce and rice vinegar.
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Daniel’s Lucky DumplingsThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• 1 cup cornmeal
• 1\4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2tsp baking powder
• half 1\2 t salt
• 1\4t of baking soda
• 1egg lightly beaten
• half cup milk
• 1 80z container plain yogurt
• 1\4 cup oil
• 1T honey
Instructions
1. In a large bow combine the first five ingredients.
2. In another bowl combine the egg yogurt milk oil and honey.
3. Stir into the an 8-in, Square baking dish coated with nonstick
4. cooking spray.
5. Bake at 425 degrees F for 16-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
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Hayden’s King Corn BreadThis food is from the culture of Wisconsin, USA.
Ingredients
• Chicken wings - 50 pieces
• Dark soy sauce - 400ml
• Water - 600ml
• Rock sugar - 300 grams
• Ginger - 3 slices
Instructions
1. Bring water to boil.
2. Add dark soy sauce, ginger, and rock sugar until the rock sugar has dis-solved. Adjust to low heat.
3. Add chicken wings and cook for 10 minutes turn the heat off. Let it stand for 10 minutes.
4. Add a little sesame oil before serving.
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Hillary’s Swiss Chicken WingsThis food is from the culture of Hong Kong.
Ingredients
• onion
• carrots
• green vegetables
• rice
• meat
• eggs
• sesame oil
Instructions
1. First, wash all of the vegetables.
2. Second, cut the onion carrot and vegetables and cut the meat into small pieces.
3. Third, crack the eggs and stir it.
4. Four, scramble the eggs.
5. Fifth, cook the vegetables.
6. Sixth, cook the rice and every other ingredients together.
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Isabella’s Fried RiceThis food is from the culture of Shanghai, China.
Ingredients
• 12 ounces dry spaghetti ,uncooked.
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil.
• 1 cup chopped onion.
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic.
• 1 pound ground round beef.
• 1 can (24 oz each) Hunt’s traditional pasta sauce.
• Grated Parmesan cheese.
Instructions
1. Cook spaghetti.
2. Meanwhile,heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and gar-lic; cook 5 minutes or until onion is tender, stirring frequently. Add beef; cook 7 minutes or until beef is crumbled and no longer pink ,stirring occasionally.Drain.
3. Add pasta sauce to skillet; stir together.Simmer covered over medium-low heat 10 minutes or until hot. Drain spaghetti.
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Jeffrey’s Homemade SpaghettiThis food is from the American culture.
Ingredients
• 1.5 kg of minced pork
• 1 egg and vegetable oil
• 1 kg of green spring onion
• oyster sauce
• mushrooms
• bowl leeks
• pot with hot water.
• dumpling skin
Instructions
1. Put minced pork in a bowl and pour oyster sauce on it.
2. Cut leeks ,green spring onion.and mushrooms all in to little pieces.
3. Dump the leeks,green spring onion,and mushrooms all in to little pieces.
4. Dump the leeks, green spring onion, and mushrooms in the bowl with minced pork in it.
5. Then, pour vegetable oil and crack the egg in the bowl.
6. Take some of the mixture form the bowl and put it on the dumpling skin.
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Kaien’s DumplingsThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• 1 cup of diced Chinese sweet sausage. (can be ham)
• 2 cloves of garlic.(minced)
• 4 cups of cooked rice.(any kind)
• 1 table spoon of light soy sauce.
• 2 table spoons of oil.
• 2 eggs.
• 1 small bag of mixed vegetables.(cooked)
• salt and pepper to taste.
Instructions
1. Cook sausage with 1 table spoon oil and take out but leave any oil left behind in wok/pan.
2. In the wok,add garlic and rice and stir fry for 5 minutes.
3. Add soy sauce and mix well.
4. Push the rice to half side of the wok,add 1 table spoon of oil on 1 side of the wok add eggs and mix well with rice.
5. Add the veggies and stir fry well.
6. Add salt and pepper to taste.
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Kayla’s Fried RiceThis food is from the Vietnamese culture.
Ingredients• 3 Large potatoes
• stick
• butter
• 1 onion
• 2 diced carrots
• peas
• 2 lbs of ground beef
• 1/2 cups of beef broth
• salt
• pepper
Instructions1. Cook the potatoes and make mash.
2. Melt some butter in a pan and add onions.
3. Then throw in carrots then peas.
4. Add ground beef and cook throughly.
5. Add salt and pepper to taste.
6. Pour in beef broth.
7. Mix the rest of the butter with mashed potatoes.
8. Put meat in the baking dish.
9. Spread mashed potatoes over the top.
10. Bake in the oven 400˚F until the surface of mashed potatoes are brown.
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Liam’s Shepherd’s PieThis food is from the culture of Ireland.
Ingredients
• Taiwanese sausages
• Rice
• Green onion
• Soy sauce
• Eggs
• Oil
Instructions
1. Cut the Taiwanese sausages and green onion into little cube pieces.
2. Add oil into the pot. Heat for 39 secs.
3. Crack 4 to 5 eggs open to the pot and stir.
4. Add rice into the pot and keep stirring it for 3 mins.
5. Add soy sauce to the edge of the pot. Stir it for 1 min.
6. Turn off the fire and add green onion. Stir them. Done
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Matthew’s Taiwanese Sausage Fried RiceThis food is from the Taiwanese culture.
Ingredients• cup granulated sugar
• 4 ounces butter softened
• 1-1/2 cup mashed bananas
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
1. Cream sugar butter: beat in mashed bananas,eggs,and vanilla.
2. Combine dry ingredients and stir into the first mixture just until mois-tened.
3. Fold in chocolate chips until well incorporated.
4. Pour batter into greased and floured 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
5. Cover loosely with a tent of aluminum foil.
6. Bake at 325˚ for 30 minutes.
7. Remove foil and continue baking for 30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted tests done.
8. Cool for 10 minutes,remove pan and cool banana bread completely before slicing.
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Megan’s Banana BreadThis food is from the American culture.
2JC
2JC is a fun, loving, dramatic group of kids and teachers who speak a total of 8 languages and is a combination of MANY cultures! The kids of 2JC enjoy writing plays, creating art, experimenting, and all the other facets of learning. They are 8 boys and 8 girls who enjoyed writing these recipes to share with you. So, enjoy, bon appetit, 吃好喝好!
Ingredients
• 3 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not sweetened) - chopped
• 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate – chopped
• ¾ stick (6 tbsp) unsalted butter
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 eggs
• ½ tsp. salt
• ½ cup flour
• ½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
1. Melt chocolate and butter together. Cool.
2. Whisk in sugar, vanilla, and eggs.
3. Stir in salt, flour, and chocolate chips.
4. Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
5. Spread butter in pan.
6. Bake 25-30 mins.
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Allie’s Triple Chocolate Fudge BrownieThis food is from the Ameican culture.
Ingredients
• ½ Tbsp salt
• 1 ¼ Cups flour
• 1Tbsp baking powder
• 1Tbsp sugar
• 1 Beaten egg
• 1 cup milk
• 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
Instructions
1. Sift flour with baking powder, sugar and salt.
2. Combine egg, milk and oil.
3. Add to dry ingredients, stirring just till flour is moistened.
4. Batter will be lumpy.
5. Bake on ungreased griddle
6. Makes 6-8 pancakes
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Christina’s Favorite Griddle CakesThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• Rice
• Egg
• Corn
• Carrot
• Green beans
• Ham
• Green pepper
• Salt
• Pepper
• Oil
Instructions
1. Pour oil into a large pan.
2. Cook the vegetables for three minutes.
3. Cook the egg and the ham.
4. Toss the cooked rice into the pan.
5. Add salt and pepper and green pepper.
6. Serve.
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Christopher’s Fried RiceThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• 2 tbsp white sugar
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• 2/3 stick of butter
• 1 ½ cups white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3 ripe banana- mashed
• ½ (16 oz.) container sour cream
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• ¼ tsp. salt
• 1 ½ tsp. baking soda
• 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
Instructions1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 C)
2. Grease bread loaf pan.
3. In a small bowl, stir together 2 tbsp. of white sugar and ½ tsp cinnamon.
4. Dust pan lightly with cinnamon/sugar mixture.
5. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Mix in eggs, mashed bananas, sour cream, va-nilla, and cinnamon.
6. Mix in salt, baking soda and flour. Stir in nuts (optional). Pour into pan.
7. Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
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Emmy’s Banana BreadThis food is from the American culture.
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Ingredients
• dumpling wrapper
• mushroom
• pork
• salt
• corn
• ginger
• cabbage
• pepper
• egg
• gourmet powder
Instructions
1. Put salt, ginger powder, pepper, gourmet powder in a bowl, and then put pork in-side (mince pork first)-for about half an hour.
2. Put corn, cabbage, egg and mushroom into the bowl, mix them.
3. Get a dumpling wrapper and some stuff, wrap it.
4. Boil the water, put dumplings into the water until all the dumplings floats (done).
5. ENJOY
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Gimmy’s Chinese DumplingThis food is from the Chinese culture.
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Ingredients• 3 chicken breasts (skinless and boneless), cut into bite size.
• 3 tablespoons of soy sauce, sesame oil and white wine vinegar.
• 3 tablespoons of cornstarch, dissolved in 3 tablespoons of water.
• 2 teaspoons of brown sugar.
• 6 green onions, chopped.
• 2 tablespoons of chopped garlic
• 1 can (18 ounces) water chestnuts
• 4 ounces of chopped peanuts.
• Chili paste
Instructions1. Cut chicken into chunks.
2. Mix white vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, brown sugar and cornstarch together in a bowl for marinating chicken.
3. Add chicken to marinade and mix to ensure chicken meat is fully covered.
4. Put in fridge for 30 mins.
5. 4. Remove chicken from marinade and sautè in a frying pan. Fry until chicken is done and put on a plate.
6. 5. Mix brown sugar, chicken stock, and chili paste. And add in the marinade, green onions, water chestnuts, and peanuts. Heat sauce until it looks like gravy.
7. Add sauce to the plate of chicken and put into the pan to simmer.
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Henry’s Kung Pao ChickenThis food is from the Sichuan Chinese culture.
8. Serve with white rice or alone. Enjoy!
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Ingredients
• Meat
• Vegetables (cabbage)
• Dried shrimp
• Mushroom
• Fried egg
• Rice noodle (buy from TW food shop)
• Onion
• Oil
Instructions
1. Put rice noodle in water for 20 minutes to get soft.
2. Chop meat and veggies into small strips.
3. Dry the onion by frying them.
4. Fry meat/veggies and put in the fried/dry onion, dried shrimp, mushrooms, and fry them together for 5 minutes.
5. Put in 2 bowls water and then put in the rice noodle.
6. The rice noodle will absorb all the water/soup.
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Isabelle’s Taiwanese NoodlesThis food is from the Taiwanese culture.
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Ingredients
• 32 oz. diced potatoes
• 2 cans cream of mushroom soup
• 1pt sour cream
• ½ cup butter
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 diced onion
Instructions
1. Mix and bake for 45 min-1hr @ 350 degrees, stir.
2. Can also put in a crockpot.
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Jake’s Cheesy PotatoesThis food is from the American culture.
Ingredients
• 200 g. Chives
• 1/3 tsp salt
• 200 g. pork
• Rice wine
• 1/4 tsp. sesame oil
• 1 chili (cut into shreds)
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tsp. corn starch
Instructions1. Cut off and discard the ends of the chives.
2. Wash and drain the chives thoroughly and cut the stalks into 3cm pieces. Set aside.
3. Cut pork into shreds add soy sauce,
4. And corn starch and mix well.
5. Heat the oil in a large saucepan, put in the pork shreds and stir-fry until the shreds turn to white in color. Set aside until required.
4. Using the little oil left in the saucepan to stir-fry the chili shreds
5. put in chives to stir-fry a little more, add rice wine and salt, then put the pork shreds into the pan.
6. Mix well together. Drizzle the sesame oil over.
7. Serve hot.
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Kaleb’s Shredded Pork with ChivesThis food is from the Chinese culture.
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Ingredients• 1 ounce lotus seeds
• 3 tablespoons oil
• 2 cups cold water
• 1 dried kiwi
• 2 ounces Chinese red dates
• 1 cup any candied fruits
• 2 cups glutinous rice
• 1 cup red bean paste
• 1/4 cup sugar
• Preparation
• 1/4 cup sugar
Instructions1. Add lotus seeds to cold water in saucepan , bring to boil for 20 minutes.
2. Drain and cool . Split into halves. Set aside.
3. Put red dates in bowl on rack in pot. Steam covered over boiling water 30 minutes. Set aside.
4. Put rice in pot with water level ¾ inch above rice. Bring to boil. Simmer 20 minutes. Stir in sugar and remain-ing 2 tablespoons oil. Mix well. Set aside.
5. Grease medium-sized bowl heavily with oil. Place dried kiwi in center. Arrange lotus seeds, red dates, and candied fruits in circles around bottom and up the edge of bowl, glazed side down.
6. Spread a layer of rice mixture over fruits carefully so as not to spoil the design. Spoon a layer of red bean paste over the rice. Cover with another layer of rice. Pack tight.
7. Place bowl on rack in pot or in steamer. Cover. Steam over boiling water 1 hour. Remove pudding carefully by running flexible spatula around edge. Put serving plate over bowl and invert bowl.
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Liyan’s Eight Precious PuddingThis food is from the Chinese culture.
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Ingredients
• milk powder 2 cups
• condensed milk 1 can
• butter 10 tablespoons
• M & Ms chocolate
Instructions
1. Melt butter in a pan
2. Add condensed milk
3. Add milk powder
4. Stir constantly till thick
5. Turn off heat and allow to cool
6. Shape mixture into balls
7. Decorate with m&m’s
8. Store in air tight container
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Mannat’s Doodh Peda (Milk Fudge)This food is from the Indian culture.
Ingredients
• shrimp
• Bok choy (kind of vegetable)
• Pork
• Wonton wrap
• Cooking wine
• Onion
Instructions
1. Mince shrimp, bok choy and pork.
2. Put a pinch of salt, a little bit of soy sauce.
3. Spring onion and some cooking wine.
4. Mix everything in a bowl as stuffing.
5. Use spoon to get a little bit of shrimp, bok choy and pork and stuff it in and fold properly.
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Max’s WontonThis food is from the Shanghainese culture.
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Ingredients
• 2 large bananas
• fresh lemon juice
• 1 cup desiccated coconut
Instructions
1. Peel and cut the bananas into 2 cm pieces.
2. Dip banana in freshly squeezed lemon juice.
3. Roll them in desiccated coconut.
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Prachi’s Coconut BananaThis food is from the Indian culture.
Ingredients• Duck
• 30 g butter, melted
• orange sauce
• 1 orange
• ½ cup orange juice
• 1 table spoon sugar
• 1 table spoon lemon juice
• 2 cup water
• 1 chicken stock cube
• 3 teaspoons arrowroot
• 1 tablespoon water
• ½ cup Grand Marnier
Instructions1. Tie ducks legs together. Place duck into baking dish, brush duck with butter. Bake in moderate
oven for about 1 hour. Brush occasionally with juices during cooking.
2. Remove rind from orange, remove any white pith; cut rind into thin strips. Combine rind, orange juice, sugar, vinegar, lemon juice, water and crumbled stock cube in saucepan. Stir over heat until mixture boils. Boil rapidly uncovered without stirring until mixture is reduced by half.
3. Stir blended arrowroot and extra water gradually into sauce. Stir constantly over heat until sauce boils and thickens, remove from heat, stir in Grand Marnier.
4. Drain pan juices from baking dish, pour sauce over duck, return to oven, bake further 20 mins, basting frequently with sauce until duck is tender and well-glazed.
5. Serves 4.
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Ryan’s Duck A L’ OrangeThis food is from the French culture.
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Ingredients
• Makes two 9” pies.
• Ingredients
• 2 pre-made, 9” pie crusts
• 2 ½ cups canned pumpkin
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• ½ tsp. salt
• 1 ¼ ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp. ginger powder
• ½ tsp. ground nutmeg
• ½ tsp. ground cloves
• 3 slightly beaten eggs
• 1 ½ cups milk
• 6 oz. evaporated milk (Carnation brand)
Instructions1. Preheat over to 400 degrees F.
2. In a large bowl, stir together pumpkin, sugar, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves.
3. In a medium bowl, stir together eggs, milk, evaporated milk. Pour this into the pumpkin mixture. Stir to combine.
4. Pour into pie shells.
5. Bake for 50 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
6. Cool on cooling rack.
7. Serve with whipped cream.
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Theo’s Pumpkin PieThis food is from the Canadian culture.
Ingredients• Dried vermicelli
• Green vegetables
• Carrots
• Mushrooms
• Salt
• Oil
• Pinch of sugar
• Black fungus
• Meat broth
• Pork
• Soy sauce
• Cooking wine
Instructions1. Soak the dried vermicelli in cold water for 1-2 hours [Depends on the type]
2. Cut vegetables, carrots, black fungus mushrooms in small pieces.
3. Cut pork in slim slices, marinate it in soy sauce, sugar, cooking wine for 20-30 minutes.
4. Stir fry the pork and put the cooked ones on aside.
5. Stir fry all the vegetables in a little oil.
6. Add in cooked pork.
7. Drain water from vermicelli.
8. Put vermicelli in mixture.
9. Add meat broth.
10. Let it cook for 5-10 minutes.[depends on amount).
11. Stir slightly.
12. Put in tray to serve.
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Zoey’s Stir-fried Vermicelli(very slim noodle)This food is from the Fuzhou Chinese culture.
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2AJ loves to play games and make connections between cultures. We are committed to being lifelong learners, who support others from near and far. Jacaranda and SAS have a special bond from one continent to another, which this cookbook is dedicated to the children of Jacaranda.
Ingredients
• Glass Noodles
• Ground beef
• Garlics
• Black pepper
• Onion and green onion
• Small
• Tofu
• Salt
• Dumpling skin
Instructions
1. Braise cabbage and glass noodles into boiling water.
2. Mix ground beef,black pepper and soy sauce.
3. Mince all of the ingredients - (garlic, onion, green onion boiled cabbage and glass noodles)
4. Mix ingredients from steps 2) and 3) (above) and salt to your desire
5. Scoop spoonful of 4) onto the dumpling skin and shape accordingly
6. Boil or steam accordingly.
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Allison’s Dumpling RecipeThis food is from the Korean culture.
Ingredients
• 600g thin sliced tenderloin of beef • 300g washed lettuce and sesame leaves • 12 garlics’ • 6 mushrooms • 1 green pepper’ • 1/2 large onion • 3Ts sugar’ • 2Ts sesame oil Marinade. • 4Ts soy sauce’ • 4Ts chopped leek • 1st chopped garlic’ • 2Ts ground sesame’ • 2Ts refined rice wine or coke’ • ground pepper.
Instructions
1. Remove edge leaves and wash well. Cut into 5am length.
2. Slice mushrooms green pepper ‘ onion and garlic.
3. Mix slice tenderloin with sugar and sesame oil.
4. Combine soy sauce chopped leek ‘chopped garlic ground sesame’ re-fined rice wine or coke and mix well in a bowl.
5. Move tenderloin into the bowl and marinate for 30 minutes.
6. Preheat a large frying pan or grill to moderately hot.Add marinated loin on the pan’ gradually.
7. Add sliced vegetables on the pan.8.Cook over medium heat 2minutes each side or until lightly golden.9.Serve with lettuce and sesame leaves.
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Andy’s Bulgogi This food is from the Korean culture.
Ingredients
• Shrimp
• Backchoy
• Pork
• Some pieces of wonton wrap
Instructions
1. Mince shrimp, backchoy ,and pork.
2. Put a pinch of salt. a little bit of soy sauce.spring onion and some cooking wine
into step 1.
3. Mix everything in a bowl as stuffing.
4. Use a spoon to get a little bit of stuffing in one piece of wrap and fold properly.
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Ethan’s WontonsThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• 1spoon of char siu sauce
• 1half spoon of salt
• 16chicken wing
Instructions
1. First mix the chicken wings with char siu sauce.
2. Marinate it for 30 minute.
3. Put it on the oven tray.
4. Grilled it for 20 minute
5. Serve it while hot.
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Grace’s Chicken WingsThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• 1 lb.ground pork
• 6T.seasame oil
• 2T.sugar
• 1T.salt
• 0.25Tpepper
• 0.25lb.cabbage
• 0.25lb.chopped green onions
• 16 dumpling wrappers
Instructions
1. Mix all the ingredients until fine.Let it sit for 10 minutes;Then squeeze out ex-cess water.
2. Place 1portion of filling in the center of a dough circle.Fold the circle in half and moisten the edges with water.Use index finger and thumb to bring the sides together.
3. Boil 10 cups of water with a T of oil.Bring to a boil;Turn the heat to low and cook for three minutes.
4. Serve with vinegar.
5. Enjoy!
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Hanna’s DumplingThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• Radish
• Green onion
• Onion
• Red chili powder
• Salt
• Fish sauce
• Garlic
• Plum juice
Instructions
1. Slice radish and onion into small squares.
2. Minced garlic.
3. Slice Green onion.
4. Pour red pepper powder onto radish and wait 30 minutes.
5. Sprinkle salt, small amount of fish sauce, plum juice, one spoonful of sugar.
6. Mix ingredients in steps 1-5 above.
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Jamie’s Radish KimchiThis food is from the Korean culture.
Ingredients
• 5 cups of flour
• 1 spoon of baking soda
• 1 bowl of browns sugar mixed with water
• 1 bowl of coconut milk
• 1 cup of water
Instructions
1. Put flour/ baking soda into mixing bowl.
2. Add brown sugar water coconut milk and water
3. Stir/mixture.
4. Spoon mixture into little cups.
5. Place cup no steamer.
6. Steam until muffin is ready.
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Jordan’s Chinese MuffinsThis food is from the Singaporean culture.
Ingredients
• 2 LB spareribs cut to 2-3 inch pieces
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup black vinegar
• 3 Tbsp soy sauce
• 4 cup water
• 1 scallion,cut to 2 inch long pieces
• 3 slice ginger
• 1 bay leave
• 1clove garlic,minced
• Some roasted sesame seeds
Instructions
1. Soak the ribs in cold water for at least half an hour to get rid of the blood. clean thoroughly in running water. drain of the excess water.
2. In a medium size skillet over medium heat ,combined the ribs,2/3 of sug-ar,water,ginger,scallion,and bay leave.Once boiled,cover and let it simmer in low heat about 2 hours.
3. Turn the ribs occasionally.
4. After 2 hours discard the scallion,bay leaf,and ginger.Turn the heat to me-dium, let the liquid reduce to about 1 cup.Add the rest sugar,black vinegar, and soy sauce. Continue to reduce the liquid until it can stick to the ribs. Turn off the heat and toss in the minced garlic. Add salt if needed. Sprinkle some roasted sesame seeds and serve the ribs hot.
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Justin’s Sweet and Sour SpareribsThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• Pound whole pork belly ( skin removed )
• Tablespoons Chinese rice wine
• Cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 tablespoon hoisin sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon five-spice powder
• Tablespoon honey.
Instructions
1. Marinate the pork belly in a large bowl mix together the rice wine,dark soy
sauce ,sugar,garlic,hoisin sauce ,and five-spice powder. rub the pork belly with
marinade mixture and marinate for 2 to 3 hours.
2. Preheat the wen to 325F
3. Hold up the pork for a few seconds to allow excess marinade to drip off .
Brush the top with the honey. roast the pork for about 45 minutes, flipping over
the pork-belly half- way through and brushing honey on the other side . the
pork is done when outsides begin to crisp and blacken.
4. Remove the pork from oven and let it cool for 5-10 minutes. Cut into thin slice.
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Kelly’s Chinese Bbq Pork This food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• 1/4 pond pork
• 1/2 carrot
• 3 black mush room
• 1 tea spoon corn starch 1/2
• Soft tofu
• 6 cups of
• Water or chicken broth
• 1 egg/ 2 table spoon vinegar
• table spoon white pepper
• teaspoon salt
• teaspoon sesame oil.
Instructions
1. Boil water
2. Cut pork/carrot/tofu/black mushroom into thin slices
3. Mix the corn starch with 1/4 water
4. Beat the egg
5. When water boils put in everything from part two.
6. When it boils again put in the corn starch mix and the beaten egg
7. Put in salt/vinegar and white pepper
8. Turn off the stove when it boils again and put in sesame oil.mix well.enjoy!
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Nichola’sThis food is from the XXX culture.
Ingredients
• 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup out bran
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 3/4 butter milk
• 1/2 cup mashed ripe bananas
• 2 tbsp butter melted
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp pure made syrup
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup fresh blueberries [optional]
• 1 cup vanilla-flavored yogurt
Instructions
1. preheat electric griddle to medium-high heat
2. combine flour,oat bran,baking powder and baking soda in a large bowl. set aside.
3. whisk together butter milk,bananas,butter,egg,maple syrup and vanilla in a me-dium bowl.
4. add wet ingredients to dry ingredients are moistened. Do not over mix
5. fold in blueberries.
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Ronan’s PancakesThis food is from the Canadian culture.
Ingredients
• few cabbages• chives• half onion• garlic• white radish• half apple• chilly powder• ginger• salted shrimp• fermented anchovy sauce• salt
Instructions
1. Divide cabbage into four equaled parts and put them in salted water adding salt between leaves and soak it about 6 hours
2. Take the cabbage out of the salt water and wash it3. Take the cabbage out of the salt water and wash it4. Let the water out by leaving the cabbage in a basket with holes5. Cut the white radish in to thin stripes 6. Mix with the chilly powder 7. Cut the chives in 4cm 8. Put ginger, garlic, onion, apple, anchovy sauce and salted 9. Shrimp into the mixer and grind them10.Mix all the ingredients except the cabbage and make a 11.filling 12.After filling a cabbage,put the cabbage in a glass box for few days
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Seoyul’s Kimchi RecipeThis food is from the Korea culture.
Ingredients
• 200g mince • pork, 2 tsp salt, 2 tsp sugar, • 1 tsp pepper, 1 • tbsp rice wine, • 1 tbsp light soy • sauce, • 1 tbsp green onion, • 1tbsp ginger, • 1tbsp sesame • oil• For the dough: 150g flour, water
Instructions1. In a bowl place the flour and make a little hole in the center and another all around.
Pour enough water to fill in both holes.
2. Roll it out in a long shape. Fold it in 3 parts. Repeat this for 5 more times.
3. Roll the dough into a rectangular shape and starting from the top roll it in itself so you have a long tube. Grab it and gently squeeze it in your hand so to take all the air out. Divide the dough into small pieces and with roll each piece into a thin circle.
4. Chop the ginger and green onion in a bowl dress the meat with all the ingredients (for the filling) and mix it up!
5. Take a disk of dough and add in the center a tsp of the filling. First fold it so the 2 sides combine. Now starting from the right edge slowly fold it like a fan.
6. Repeat until you don’t have any filling left.
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Teresa’s Traditional Chinese DumplingsThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• 2 Tbsp vegetable oil.
• 1 tsp salt.
• 14oz shanghai noodles.
• 1 Tbsp soy sauce.
• 1 clove garlic,chopped.
• 3/5 cup of cabbage cut in to thin strips.
• 1 cup Chinese barbecued pork.
• 2 Tbsp oyster sauce .
Instructions
1. First, soak noodles in boiling water.
2. Then, heat oil in a wok.
3. Next, add salt,garlic,cabbage,pork,and Shanghai noodles.
4. Last, stir-fry for minutes and add oyster sauce and soy sauce.
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Victoria’s Chinese NoodlesThis food is from the Chinese culture.
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Ingredients
• 32 oz elbow noodles
• 2 cups shredded sharp cheese
• 1 TB butter
• 1 TB flour
• 1 cup milk
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 squirt of mustard
Instructions
1. In a big pot, boil noodles, drain
2. In a medium pot, warm butter then add flour and bubble for 2 min
3. Add milk, boil 4 min
4. Remove pot from heat, add cheese, salt, pepper, mustard
5. Mix noodles and cheese
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Andrew’s Macaroni and CheeseThis food is from the American culture.
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Ingredients
• ½ pumpkin
• Glutinous rice flour
• Sugar
Instructions
1. Peel the pumpkin skin off.
2. Cut the pumpkin into ¼ inches.
3. Steam the pumpkin for 30-40 minutes or when it is soft.
4. Mash the Pumpkin.
5. Add glutinous rice flour to the pumpkin.
6. Add sugar (to taste) to pumpkin.
7. Make small pumpkin pies.
8. Pan fry the pumpkin pies.
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Caitlin’s Mini Pumpkin PieThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• Sticky rice powder
• Pumpkin
• Honey/sugar
• Cooking oil
Instructions
1. Chop the pumpkin into small cubes.
2. Steam the chopped pumpkin for 10 minutes.
3. Mix the sticky rice powder, pumpkin and honey/sugar with water.
4. Heat up the pan, add in small amount of cooking oil, use spoon to make the cake into small round shapes.
5. Pan stir until well done.
6. Enjoy! Yummy!
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Ethan’s Sweet Pumpkin CakesThis food is from the Asian culture.
Ingredients
• kimchi
• Onions
• Two eggs
• Flour ( 2~3 cups)
• Water (500 ml)
• You can add some mushrooms, meat, etc.(Optional)
Instructions
1. Pour some water and eggs in a bowl and stir.
2. Put some (2~3 cups) flour into the bowl and mix.
3. Put all the other ingredients into the bowl and mix all of them.
4. Grease on the pan and try to bake the mix.
5. You bake the mix one or two scoops at a time.
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Grace’s Kim Chi JunThis food is from the Korean culture.
Ingredients
• 2 bowls of steamed rice
• 4 dried seaweed sheets.
• ½ cucumber, vertical cut
• 4 pickled radish
• 4 ham
• 4 crab meat
• 4 burdock
• 100g carrot
• Sesame oil
• Sesame salt
Instructions1. Beat the eggs and whisk.
2. Fry the egg on the pan and cut into strips.
3. Mix sesame oil and sesame salt with the rice.
4. Place a seaweed sheet onto a bamboo mat.
5. Spread the rice on the seaweed sheet.
6. Arrange all the ingredients onto the rice.
7. Hold the mat and roll the Gimbab carefully.
8. Cut the Gimbab and serve it on a plate.
9. Enjoy the delicious Gimbab.
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Hyun Jae’s GimbabThis food is from the Korean culture.
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Ingredients
• 3 cups of rice
• 1 lb of chicken
• 2 onions
• 1 bell pepper
• 1 tsp of cumin
• 2 tsp of oregano
• 2 tbsp of tomato paste
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Sugar and vinegar to taste
• Vegetable oil
• 6 cups chicken stock
Instructions
1. Marinate chicken with onions, pepper, cumin, oregano, salt and pepper for approximately 1-4 hrs.
2. Heat oil, add sugar – not to burn – then add chicken and lightly brown.
3. When brown, deglaze with vinegar.
4. When brown, add rice and allow to slightly cook.
5. Add chicken stock and allow half of liquid to dissipate.
6. Then cover on low heat for 25 minutes.
7. Serve and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!
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Isabella’s Arroz con PolloThis food is from the Dominican Republic culture.
Ingredients
• Some rice with a little bit of salt and little bit of sesame oil
• Sheets of seaweed
• Little bit of avocados, cucumbers, carrots, eggs, and ham
Instructions
1. Mix some rice and a little bit of salt and little bit of sesame oil.
2. Put the rice on top of a sheet of seaweed.
3. Put a little bit of avocados, cucumbers, carrots, eggs and ham.
4. Roll with a gimbab roller.
5. Slice them into bite size pieces.
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Jimin’s KimbabThis food is from the Korean culture.
Ingredients
• Dough 250g
• Meat 200g
• Vegetable 500g
• Salt 10g
• Water 125 g
Instructions
1. Use water and flour to make dough.
2. Press and cut the dough to make the wrapper.
3. Boil the vegetable and squeeze out the water.
4. Chop the veggie and meat.
5. Mix them together.
6. Add 10g of salt.
7. Put the mixed meat and veggie onto the wrapper and wrap it.
8. Put the dumpling in hot water and boil 5 minutes.
DONE!
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Jun Yi’s DumplingsThis food is from the Chinese culture.
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Ingredients• 500 g steak pork
• 5 pieces of ginger
• 1 piece of cinnamon
• 3 pieces of anise
• 6 red dates
• Brown sauce (soy)
• Boiled water
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Instructions1. Cut into 2 cm pork.
2. Peel ginger slice.
3. Put oil into the pot.
4. When oil is cool, put cinnamon and anise.
5. Try out the fragrance with small fire, then turn into the big fire and put into steak pork.
6. After try out stirring coloration, continue to sauté 2 minutes until oil outlet.
7. Put in the dark/soy sauce, sugar, salt, and mix the condiments well.
8. Stir 5 minutes to make meat colored and tasty, and then add boiled water. Water will submerge the meat.
9. After boiling, skim froth.
10. Put in red dates and ginger, lid the pot, turn to the small fire, and simmer for 40 minutes. Pay attention to the water of the pot—add a little boiling water when water is insufficient.
11. After 40 minutes, open the lid, move into the big fire and accept the soup , so it would have a layer of rich sauce for the pork braised.
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Marcus’s Pork Braised in Brown SauceThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• Tomato: 1
• Eggs: 2
• Oil: a little bit
• Salt: a little bit
Instructions
1. Let the pot get hot.
2. Put the oil in and let it get 60% cooked.
3. Crack the egg and put it into the pot and let it get 100% cooked.
4. Put the tomato into another pot and let it get 100% cooked.
5. Mix the egg and tomato together and take it out.
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Michael’s TomatoThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• Chicken breast 300g
• Minced ginger 1 teaspoon
• Sake 2 tablespoons
• Soy sauce 1.5 tablespoons
• Potato starch 2 tablespoons
• Flour 2 tablespoons
• Vegetable oil
Instructions
1. Cut chicken breast into bite size pieces.
2. Put the chicken into a bowl and add the minced ginger.
3. Pour the marinade made from soy sauce and sake.
4. Heat the oil at the temperature 170 degree C.
5. Drain the marinade (but not all of it) and coat with starch and flour thoroughly.
6. Fry the chickens in the oil to 170 degrees and then heat the oil to 180 degrees un-til crisp.
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Olivia’s Japanese Fried ChickenThis food is from the Japanese culture.
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Ingredients
Egg Part
• Milk 400g
• Egg 350g
• Sugar 275g
• Salt little bit
Tart Part
• Flour 220g
• Butter 150g
• Egg 50g
• Salt 2g
• Powder sugar 80g
Instructions1. Mix all egg part ingredients in a pan.
2. Heat it up to 50 degrees C.
3. Filter egg part and let it cool
4. Mix flour and sugar then add egg and soften butter.
5. Divide tart dough into mold and fill egg part in tart dough.
6. Cake for 15 minutes at 165 degrees C.
7. Time to eat.
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Reia’s Egg TartThis food is from the Taiwanese culture.
Ingredients
• 1 egg
• 1 slice of ham
• 2 pieces of bread
Instruction
1. Make the sandwich out of the ingredients.
2. Put the sandwich in the oven at 80 degrees C.
3. Set the time into 1 min. and take the sandwich out of the oven.
4. Cut the sandwich into triangles.
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Ryan’s SandwichThis food is from the Canadian culture.
Ingredients
• Special tapioca flour
• Cooked dried shrimp
• Sugar
• Salt
Instructions
1. Pour enough cooking oil in the pan and wait until it’s sufficiently hot.
2. Deep fry crackers until it fully expands and turn it over once, then take it out of the pan.
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Winston’s Shrimp CrackersThis food is from the Indonesian culture.
Ingredients
• 100G GROUND PORK
• 1KG TOFU
• 1 OR 2 TABLESPOON SOY SAUCE (YOU CHOOSE)
• 1 TABLESPOON OLIVE OIL
• HANDFUL OF CHOPPED SPRING ONION
Instructions
1. CUT PORK INTO TINY PIECES.
2. CUT THE TOFU INTO SQUARES.
3. HEAT OLIVE OIL IN SKILLET.
4. STIR FRY PORK.
5. ADD SOY SAUCE.
6. ADD TOFU.
7. SPRINKLE SOME CHOPPED SPRING ONION.
8. TURN OFF THE HEAT.
9. READY TO SERVE!
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YiHeng’s Ground Pork with TofuThis food is from the Chinese culture.
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Friendship is the core of this loving and outgoing group!
Ingredients
• Pancake mix
• Water
• Milk
Instructions
1. Pout pancake mix in a bowl.
2. Pout 1 cup of water in the bowl.
3. Pout 1 cup of milk in side the bowl.
4. stir pancake mix with a wire whisk
5. Mix for 2 Minutes all together.
6. And keep steering until it look’s gooey.
7. heat pancake giddle to 375°F.
8. Pour a little bit of the gooey stuff into a pan
9. Let the pan cook for a few minutes until the batter bubbles
10. Then flip the pancake
11. When the pancake mix is done you can eat the pancake don’t forget the syrup
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Amelia’s Michigan PancakesThis food is from the American culture.
Ingredients
Filling:
• Ground pork
• Cabbage filling
Wraps:
• Flour
• Water
Condiments:
• Salt
• Pepper
• Soy sauce
• Green onion
Instructions
1. Mix the ground pork & minced cabbage together in a bowl.
2. Add salt and other condiments; mix them together to make the filling.
3. Make dumpling wraps from scratch from flour or buy store-made wraps.
4. Make dumplings-put the filling in the wrap and fold it.
5. Boil the dumplings and serve them hot.
6. Now your ready to eat it!
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Andrew’s Dumpling DishThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• 2 teaspoons pig oil, or as needed
• 4 stalks regular sized bok choy with leaves , chopped roughly in to 1-inch pieces (about 3 cups chopped)
• 11/2 teaspoons regular table salt or sea salt or to taste
• 2 cups long grain rice
• 4 cups water
• 100gm Chinese salty meat , chopped in to pieces
Instructions
1. heat the oil a large saucepan over medium heat (about 6 on the stovetop) , then add the bok choy .
2. Stir-fry the bok choy for a minute, sprinkle with the salt and continue cooking for 2 more minutes for a total cooking time of about 3 minutes (if you like, separate the stalks and leaves and cook the stalks first for a minute before adding the leaves).
3. Add the rice, salty meat and 3 cups water to the bok choy and mix them will.
4. Transfer the rice, water, meat and bok choy to the rice cooker. Do the regular rice cooking. After it is cooked, use a fork to fluff up the rice and add one more cup of water. Cover and cook on regular setting again.
5. Serve.
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Angelina’s Bok Choy RiceThis food is from the Chinese culture.
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Ingredients
• Lots of noodles
• 5 chicken nuggets (drumsticks)
• some fresh seaweeds
• a lot of rice
Instructions
1. Get some noodles and cook it
2. Put some fresh vegetable in the pot
3. Put the cooked chicken nugget in there
4. Put some white rice around the noodles and serve
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Becky’s China Chicken Nugget NoodleThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• Curry sauce
• Fish ball
• Some Vegetables
Instructions
1. First you boil a pot of hot water [100 degrees], you can wait about 5 minute,
2. Next you add some curry sauce in it, also boil this about 10 minute,
3. Then you could add a little bit of vegetable [it depends if you wand to add a little vegetable]
4. Then you can add fish ball, also you boil this for 10 minute,
5. last you turn off the fire and wait until 5 hours then you can eat it!
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Christy’s Curry Fish BallsThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• Plain flour
• 2 Egg’s
• Milk
• Water
• salt
• Vegetable oil
Instructions
1. Preheat the vegetable oil in the baking pan for 20 minutes.
2. Mix 5 table spoons of plain flour with 2 table spoons of water. and milk and a pinch of salt.
3. Put them in the baking pan with 175°c heat for 75 minutes till they rise and turn to a golden color.
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Claire’s Yorkshire PuddingThis food is from the English culture.
Ingredients
Ingredients: A
• 8egg yolk
• 80g of cooking oil
• 12g of self raising flour
Ingredients: B
• 4g pandan juice extra.
• 120g of castor sugar.
Instructions
1. First place all Ingredient: A into mixer bowl to mix. Mix/12seconds/speed2/
2. pour out the mixture and set it a side.
3. Clean the mixer bowl and heat up to dry up the bowl. 40seconds/50 degrees/seed3,
4. Put egg white into mixer bowl. To beat the egg white.
5. At last 1 minute/add in castor sugar to mix. 3.5 minutes/seed
6. Pour out the mixture and mix with mixture A well in the sponge cake mould Bake in the preheat oven at 160 degree for 50 minutes.
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Elisa’s Pandan Sponge CakeThis food is from the Chinese culture.
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Ingredients
• ½ cup plain flour
• 4 sprigs spring onion, finely chopped
• 1 egg
• l4g dried shrimps (wash and sock until soft)
• ¼ Tsp salt
• 1 cup of water
Instructions
Preparation 1
1. Sieve flour into a deep bowl .
2. Add egg and combine.
3. Add water a little at a time into the flour mixture and stir until smooth.
4. Put into dried shrimps, spring onion and salt and combine.
Preparation 2
1. Heat 1 tbsp. of oil in pan.
2. Pour in suitable amount of flour mixture and sauté until both sides are golden brown.
3. Dish up!
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Ethan’s Sautèed Pancake with OnionsThis food is from the Chinese culture.
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• Ingredients
• Chicken wings
• Coca cola
• Ginger
• Garlic
• Onion
• Salt
• Soy sauce
• Cooking wine
• Cooking oil
Instructions
1. Wash the chicken wing and use toothpick to pierce holes
2. Shred the singes garlic and onion mix them with the chicken wing
3. Add some salt soy sauce cooking wine and stir them all together
4. Wait for 15 minutes
5. Pour some cooking oil into the pan and heat it up
6. Place the chicken wing inside the pan
7. After turn off fire and add a lot off coca cola
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Iris’s Coca-Cola Chicken WingsThis food is from the Chinese culture.
8. When the stock turns thick and stiky swich off the fire. done
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Ingredients
• 200g scallion [spring onion], finely chopped
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 400g all purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 220g boiling water
• 100g cold water
Instructions
1. Mix scallion and salt
2. Place flour and salt in a bowl
3. Add cold water in same bowl ,stir well
4. Pour some cooking oil on a clean work
5. Place the dough on the surface.
6. Rub some more oil on the dough and fold the dough over and over
7. Roll the dough in a rectangle and flat shape.
8. Sprinkle all scallion on it, then roll it into a long shape.
9. Set aside all dough on the oily working for 20 minutes.
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Jerry’s Taiwan PancakesThis food is from the Taiwanese culture.
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Ingredients• 350g (120z) plain flour
• 1 tea spoon of bicarbonate (soda)
• ½ teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• 1 ½ of ground ginger
• 100g(40z)chilled butter
• 175g(60z) light muscovado sugar
• 1 medium egg
• a flower shaped cookie cutter
• 2 tablespoons of golden syrup writing icing
Instructions1. Heat the oven to 180° f.
2. Wipe a little oil over two baking trays.
3. Use a sieve to sift the flour into a bowl.
4. Sift the bicarbonate (soda),cinnamon and ginger into a bowl.
5. Cut the butter into chunks and stir it into the flour.
6. Use your finger tips to rub the butter into the flour, when the mixture looks like bread crumbs stir in the sugar .
7. Break the egg into the bowl and beat it with a fork
8. Add the syrup beat it.
9. Add the mixture to the flour mix it in .
10. Use your hands to squeeze the mixture until it becomes a smooth dough.
11. Cut the dough in half with a blunt knife.
12. Sprinkle flour on a clean work surface and put one piece of dough onto it.
13. Roll it out until its about 5mm thick
14. Use a cookie cutter to cut lots of shapes from the dough.
15. Use a spatula to lift them onto two baking trays.
16. Roll out the rest of the dough and cut out more shapes.
17. Bake them in the oven from twelve to fifteen minutes.
18. Lift them for 5 minutes
19. Use a spatula to lift the biscuits on a wire rack.
20. When they are cool, draw pattern’s on the cookie’s with writing icing.
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Jessica’s Ginger Bread Flower CookiesThis food is from the Chinese/American culture.
Ingredients• Beef boog (slice beef )
• Onion
• Mushroom 15
• Pear ½
• Sugar, pepper, minced, garlic, soy sauce
Instructions
1. Grind ½ pear and ½ onion together.
2. Add cooking wine, pepper and a little bit of honey to the mixture you made in step 1.
3. Place the load of beef in the marinade you finished in step 2. For 30 min.
4. From another mixture of 5t soy sauce,15t sugar,2t sesame oil ,and it of crushed garlic.
5. Add the new mixture you made in step 4 to the beef after the end of the 30min marinade period.
6. Leave the beef in that rendition for 2to3 hours (some people even wait for 1 whole day).
7. Add 1 cup of water after 2-3 hours then fry the beef.
8. Enjoy your meal!
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JiHoon’s Korean Barbeque (Bulgogi)This food is from the Korean culture.
Ingredients
• Eggs
• Soy sauce
• Salt
• Pepper
• Oil
Instructions
1. Crack eggs in a bowl.
2. Put a little soy sauce, salt and pepper in the bowl.
3. Stir everything in the bowl until it it’s fluffy.
4. Pour the oil into the pan to heat it.
5. Stir 2-3 minutes until it’s getting yellow, and then dish off.
IT IS DONE!!!!!!!!
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Justin’s Scrambled EggsThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• 4 egg,
• Water
• 6 portion of 1 egg each
• Chopped scallion
• Soya sauce and sesame oil
• Dry scallop
Instructions
1. Stir the egg with water.
2. Put the dry scallop into the egg.
3. Steam the egg for 10 minutes.
4. Then put chopped scallion and put sesame oil and soya sauce
Finally eat and enjoy
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Nathan’s Steam EggThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
• Two large chicken thighs.
• Five cloves of garlic.
• Six slices of ginger.
• Two cups of rice.
Instructions
1. Little soya sauce and sesame oil.
2. Marinade chicken with salt {3garlic} and ginger for half a day.
3. Boil pot of water.
4. Put everything in step 1 into the pot.
5. Boil for about 20 minutes turn off fire
6. Use chicken stock and two garlic to cook rice.
7. Place cooked chicken on plate, sprinkle with soya sauce and sesame oil.
8. Serve chicken with cooked rice.
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Samuel’s Singapore Chicken RiceThis food is from the Singaporean culture.
2MC2MC is a dynamic class of students from all over the world. The community of students that make up this class are from China, India, Korea, Bangladesh, Singapore, America, Canada, and Hong Kong. The students in 2MC are full of enthusiasm, kindness and respect. They are proud to have been a part of making the 2nd grade Shanghai American School Cookbook.
Ingredients• 1 cup all purpose – for the dough
• ½ tsp carom seeds
• 3 tsp Oil
• Salt to taste (for filling)
• 4 potatoes
• ½ cup green peas
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1teaspoon ginger chopped
• Dry mango powder
Spices
1 tsp. Coriander leaves
Instructions1. Mix the Dough ingredients. 2. Add a little water and make a hard dough. 3. Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds. 4. When they start to change color, add ginger, and potatoes, salt and spices.
5. Cook well.
6. Then take a ball of dough. 7. Roll it in to a circle and cut it in to half. 8. Make a cone of it and then fill the filling and seal it. 9. Now fry it in oil and enjoy with sauce.
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Aashin’s SamosaThis food is from the Indian culture.
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Ingredients• 3/4 cue milk
• 2 tablespoons of white vinegar
• 1 cup all –purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons of white sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• cooking [melted] spray
Instructions1. Combine milk with vinegar in a medium bowl and set aside for 5 minutes to “sour”.
2. Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
3. Whisk egg and butter into “soured” milk.
4. Pour the flour mixture into the wet ingredients and whisk until lumps are gone.
3. Heat a large skillet over medium heat, and coat with cooking spray.
4. Pour ¼ cupfuls of batter onto the skillet, and cook until bubbles appear on the surface.
5. Flip with a spatula, and cook until browned on the other side.
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Aidan’s PancakesThis food is from the Canadian culture.
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Ingredients• 1 tablespoon kosher salt
• 8 ounces uncooked spaghetti
• 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, divided
• 2 pints cherry tomatoes
• 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 2 ounces Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, shaved
• 1/4 cup small basil leaves
Instructions1. Preheat oven to 450°. 2. Bring a large pot of water to a boil; 3. add 1 tablespoon salt. 4. Add pasta; cook 10 minutes or until al dente. 5. Drain pasta in a colander over a bowl, reserving 6 tablespoons cooking liquid. 6. Return pasta to pan. 7. Combine reserved cooking liquid and 2 tablespoons oil in a small saucepan; bring
to a boil.
8. Boil 4 minutes or until mixture measures 1/3 cup. Add oil mixture to pan with pasta; toss to coat.
9. While pasta cooks, combine remaining 2 tablespoons oil, tomatoes, and garlic on a jelly-roll pan, tossing to combine.
10. Bake at 450° for 11 minutes or until tomatoes are lightly browned and begin to burst.
11. Add tomato mixture, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and pepper to pasta; toss to coat. 12. Top with cheese and basil.
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Aliya’s Roasted Cherry Tomato PastaThis food is from the American culture.
Ingredients
• Slices of dough
• Unshelled shrimps
• Chopped bamboo
• Mushrooms
• Minced pork
• Appropriate seasonings such as soy sauce, sugar, and rice wine.
Instructions
1. Chop the shrimp and put them in a bowl.
2. Mix the shrimp, bamboo mushrooms, and seasonings together.
3. Place a teaspoon of filling in the center of each dough circle. Gather up the dough around the filling and bring it up towards the center. Turn the ends clockwise slightly to seal the filling in completely.
4. Put the dumplings into boiling water in for about ten minutes.
5. Serve at once, ENJOY!
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Caridee’s Shrimp DumplingsThis food is from the Hong Kong culture.
Ingredients
• fresh bread
• oil
• egg
• salt
Instructions
1. Put a pan on the stove at medium heat.
2. Use a round cookie cutter to make a hole in the center of the bread slice.
3. Pat small amounts of oil in the heated pan.
4. Lay bread in the pan.
5. Crack the egg in the middle.
6. Turn the heat to low. Then flip bread with egg over.
7. Cook to desired firmness.
8. Pan fry break center and serve together.
9. Add salt as needed.
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Daniel’s CyclopsThis food is from the American culture.
Ingredients
• 2 eggs
• 1 green onion
• 1 can of oil
• 1 jar of salt
Instructions
1. First break 2 eggs into a bowl.
2. Then use a whisk to mix together.
3. Last put salt and green onions into the bowl.
4. Mix with eggs. Now start to cook.
5. First, heat the pan and then put oil in it.
6. When the pan is hot drop the eggs into the pan.
7. Then using a spoon to move the egg until it covers the whole pan.
8. It is ready when the egg becomes solid and a golden color.
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Enzo’s Chinese OmeletteThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients• Steamed rice
• crab meat
• Seaweed sheet
• burdock
• Cucumber [vertical cut]
• carrot
• Pickled radish
• egg
• Ham
• sesame oil
• salt
Instructions1. Mix sesame oil and sesame salt with rice.
2. Place seaweed sheet onto a bamboo mat.
3. Spread the rice on seaweed sheet.
4. Arrange all the ingredients onto rice.
5. Hold the mat and roll the Gimbab..
6. Cut the Gimbab and serve it on a plate.
7. Enjoy the delicious Gimbab.
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Gunn’s GimbabThis food is from the Korean culture.
Ingredients
• 5 eggs
• whole milk
• carnation milk
• 1 cup sugar
• vanilla essence
• beat the eggs
• add 3 cups of milk
• add 1 cup of sugar
Instructions
1. Mix all of the ingredients together.
2. Heat the sugar to make caramel.
3. Once the caramel is set, pour the mix over.
4. Then bake it in the oven at 300 degrees for 1 hour.
5. Cool it in the fridge and serve. Enjoy eating.
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Imani’s Caramel Pudding This food is from the Bangladesh culture.
Ingredients
• Meat
• Rice
• Onion
• Mushroom
• Soy
• White sugar
• Water
• Eggs
Instructions
1. First you put the meat and onions together.
2. Then you cook them together.
3. Then you put the mushrooms in and then comes the soy sauce and white sugar and the eggs.
4. Then you put the water in and cook it for 30 minutes.
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Jennifer’s Braised Pork RiceThis food is from the Chinese culture.
Ingredients
Batter: Seasoning: Ingredients:
• 175g Flour 1 1/2 tsp five spice 5 tbsp oil
• 50g Tapioca flour 2 1/2 tsp sugar 2 tbsp chopped garlic
• 800ml water 1 tsp salt 100g dried prawn soaked and chopped
• 800ml chicken stock 1 minced onion 600g yam peeled and cubed
Before Serving:
• 2 Stalks spring onions
• Some Fried Shallots
• 2 tbsp roasted white sesame seeds
Instructions1. Heat up oil, sauté chopped garlic and dried prawns until fragrant.
2. Add in chopped yam cubes and stir-fry with love until aromatic.
3. Add in seasoning and mix well. Dish up.
4. Pour the batter into a double- boil the batter for about 10 minutes or until thick.
5. Add in 1 mixture and mix well spread into an 8 round or square steaming tray.
6. Steam at high heat for about 45 minutes. Remove. Leave aside for about 30 minutes until it cooled.
7. Sprinkle spring onion, fried shallots and sesame seeds on top.
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Liwen’s Steamed Yam CakeThis food is from the Singapore culture.
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Ingredients
• Macaroni 2 cups
• Carrot 2 ½ cups coarsely grated
• Cheddar cheese 3 cups
• Butter ¼
• Sour cream ¾
• Milk ¼ cup
• Eggs 2 large
• Salt 1 teaspoon kosher
• Mustard powder ¾ teaspoon
• Parmesan ¼ cup
• Black pepper ¼ cup
Instructions1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Grease A 8” square baking pan.
3. Pre-cook macaroni until pasta is hot.
4. Stir in ½ cheddar and butter in a bowl, whisk sour cream, milk, eggs, salt, mustard powder, and pepper.
5. Fold together with pasta. Transfer all to a pan.
6. Sprinkle remaining cheddar cheese and parmesan on top.
7. Bake under firm to touch and golden brown, around 30 minutes.
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Luci’s Macaroni and CheeseThis food is from the American culture.
Ingredients
• 2 cups of flour
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp cinnamon
• 2 eggs beaten
• 1 ½ cups of mashed banana
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup oil or melted butter
Instructions
1. Preheat oven 350 degrees F grease bottom/sides of 1-9x5x3 loaf pans.
2. In large bowl combine flour baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon.
3. Make a will in center of flour mixture, set aside.
4. In medium bowl combine eggs, banana, sugar, and oil.
5. Add egg mixture all at once to flour mixture.
6. Stir until just moistened. Spoon batter into pan.
7. Bake for 55-60 min or until a toothpick comes out clean.
8. Cool on wire rack.
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Madilyn’s Banana BreadThis food is from the American culture.
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Ingredients
• 2 pieces of chicken.
• tandoori masala.
• yogurt.
• Lemon juice.
• Butter.
• Ginger.
• Garlic and salt
Instructions
1. First take a big bowl.
2. Add clean chicken, tandoori masala, yogurt, lemon juice, butter, ginger, garlic and salt.
3. Mix them all together.
4. Marinate the chicken for 6 hours in the refrigerator.
5. To cook take the chicken and skew it in the skewers.
6. Now you can put the oven on 375˚F and then wait for 10 minutes.
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Ragav’s Tandoori ChickenThis food is from the Indian culture.
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Ingredients
• Apples
• Butter
• Flour
• Sugar
• Brown sugar
• Nutmeg
• Cinnamon
• little salt
Instructions
1. Sprinkle sliced apples with sugars, cinnamon nutmeg salt and a little flour. Mix together.
2. Make the crust using flour, butter and a little water.
3. Roll out the crust and put in a pie plate.
4. Next, put apple mixture into pie plate and cover apples with crust.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes.
6. Last step, eat with ice-cream and enjoy.
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Ryan’s Apple PieThis food is from the American culture.
Ingredients
• Cheese
• Broccoli
• Salt
Instructions
1. Boil the broccoli for about one minute.
2. Then drain the water out and sprinkle salt on to the broccoli.
3. Mix cheese with broccoli while it is hot.
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Truman’s Cheese BrocolliThis food is from the American culture.