Braised recipes.

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Xinjiang big plate chicken with browned chicken, potatoes, dried chilies, scallions, and colorful peppers in a glossy sauce

Nº 01

Chicken 60 min

Xinjiang Big Plate Chicken (Da Pan Ji)

A bold Xinjiang chicken stew with caramel-browned chicken, tender potatoes, dried chilies, warm spices, and colorful peppers. The glossy savory sauce is spicy, gently sweet, and especially good with hand-pulled wide noodles.

Golden brown kabayaki eggplant glazed in dark sauce, garnished with green onions

Nº 02

Eggplant 30 min

Kabayaki Eggplant

Eggplant cooked in kabayaki sauce — sweet, savory, and sticky. The texture is surprisingly close to eel. A Chinese home-cooking hack for when you want eel rice without the eel (or the price tag).