Chinese Purim Meal

Chanie ↓

Tue, Mar 03 2009, 6:38 pm

I want to make a chinese theme purim meal. Trying to come up with a menu for 19 pple. (nothings in concrete yet, would love to hear your ideas, so that I can change my menu around)

Fish course:
Taryaki salmon - made on the goerge forman served on a bed of lettuce
chinese chabbage salad
eggrolls
I need a few other salads

Soup: (not sure if I'll skip the soup or not.. pple are probably not that hungary after a day of running around with nosh)
chicken soup with possibly wontons

Chicken:
Thinking of making the chicken negemaki from KBD
greenbeans with shallots
rice

Need ideas of kid friendly foods as I'm having 6 kids at the table.
What do I make for dessert? I'm making fortune cookies for my meshloach monot, is it too much to serve with dessert too?

sky

Tue, Mar 03 2009, 6:45 pm

If you're interested I have a very good and very easy sweet and sour soup that uses chicken soup as the base (or chicken soup flavor if you are lazy).

Let me know if you'd like the recipe. If yes, you should probably try it before hand because it has a very different flavor - but its really good.

I love the chicken Negamaki - but its a lot of work - no?

Ima2NYM_LTR

Tue, Mar 03 2009, 6:47 pm

just come to our shul...thats what we are having!!!!!

↑ Chanie ↓

Tue, Mar 03 2009, 6:59 pm

sky wrote:

If you're interested I have a very good and very easy sweet and sour soup that uses chicken soup as the base (or chicken soup flavor if you are lazy).

I love sweet and sour soup, but my husband HATES mushrooms, and I think that it gives a lot of its visual appeal

Quote:

I love the chicken Negamaki - but its a lot of work - no?

I made it a few times and it looks harder then it is. And it looks so presentable on a plate.

ra_mom ↓

Tue, Mar 03 2009, 7:06 pm

-You can make the chicken soup into an eggdrop soup. Or an eggdrop wonton soup. Always yum.
-A sweet and salty Asian salad. (Romaine, soybeans, red onion, oranges, soy sauce, sesame oil, mustard, ginger... I will post the recipe if you'd like.)
-Sesame noodles.
-Garlicky Green Beans (I have a great method.)

↑ Chanie ↓

Tue, Mar 03 2009, 7:09 pm

ra_mom wrote:

Sure I'd love the asian salad recipe and the garlic green beans.

↑ ra_mom

Tue, Mar 03 2009, 7:23 pm

Chanie wrote:

ra_mom wrote:

Sure I'd love the asian salad recipe and the garlic green beans.

Ingredients
• 1 pkg. ready romaine lettuce
• 1/2 pkg. frozen soybeans (edamame), blanched according to pkg. directions either in microwave or pot
• 2 oranges, peeled & cut into chunks
• 1 red onion, thinly sliced
Dressing:
• 1 Tbsp deli mustard (I use Dijon Mustard)
• 2 Tbsp sugar or sugar substitute equivalent to that amount
• 2 Tbsp soy sauce
• 1 Tbsp sesame oil
• ¼ cup oil
• 3 Tbsp rice wine vinegar
• 1 cube frozen ginger (I'm sure it can be substituted with 1 tsp fresh minced ginger, or 1/4-1/2 tsp ground ginger)
Preparation
Combine the red onion, soy beans, romaine lettuce and orange cubes in a large salad bowl.
In a measuring cup, combine the mustard, sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, oil, rice wine vinegar and ginger. Mix well and pour dressing over salad.

Grean Beans
Ingredients
• fresh beans, trimmed
• olive oil
• lots of crushed garlic
• salt (coarse Kosher salt works great in this)
• sesame seeds
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Blach (cook for 1 minute) the string beans in boiling water for 1 minute.
Remove string beans, wash with cold water to stop the cooking process and allow the greans to sit in ice cubes.
In a frying pan, heat olive oil over low-medium flame until very hot and oil is brown.
Saute green beans for less than one minute on each side, or until there are grill marks.
In a bowl, toss with sesame seeds, salt and crushed garlic to taste.

These are my absolute favorite green beans.

For a one pot recipe, try the Quick & Kosher sesame green beans (let me know if you need the recipe.)

ShakleeMom

Tue, Mar 03 2009, 8:12 pm

You can make minced meat (or mushroom mixture) and put them in wonton dough and bunch it into a bag-looking shape, tie it off with a green scallion stick. Then, stew it in water with some oil until cooked. Drain. Serve with soy dipping sauce.

Also, don’t forget the Chinese crunchy noodles and sweet dipping sauce

Fortune cookies

Pupu platter – BBQ beef sticks, mini eggrolls, spicy wings, chicken toast

shopaholic

Wed, Mar 04 2009, 9:57 am

I'm doing
chicken soup with kreplach,
mini egg rolls,
chinese fried rice,
sweet n sour chicken nuggets,
beef lo mein,
chinese chicken wings.

My friend is bringing dessert - lemon meringue pie (not chinese, but she offered) & hamentashen.

chanchy123

Wed, Mar 04 2009, 10:02 am

I have a real easy "chinese" corn soup if your interested.
Also, have fortue cookies for dessert - with cute purim themed "fortunes".

↑ Chanie ↓

Wed, Mar 04 2009, 1:52 pm

chanchy123 wrote:

Also, have fortue cookies for dessert - with cute purim themed "fortunes".

I'm making fortune cookies for my mm and it might be over kill to serve it some more...
Regarless. I'll probably end the meal with hot tea and fortune cookies, but I need to think of something else too...