English home-cooking recipes

Fresh Scalded Meatball Soup

Fresh Scalded Meatball Soup has a tender, smooth, and bouncy texture. It is a home-style dish that retains the original flavor. Pork provides high-quality protein, and the combination with black fungus and daylilies creates a balanced nutrition. Making this requires hand-mincing the meat and mastering the heat for scalding, which has a slight skill threshold and is better suited for home cooks with some basic culinary skills. The process takes about 1 hour from preparation to serving.

Ginger and Green Onion Braised Chicken

Ginger and Green Onion Braised Chicken is a classic Cantonese home-style dish. The chicken is tender and juicy with a rich aroma of ginger and green onions, offering a delicious savory taste that goes well with rice. The chicken thigh provides high-quality protein; paired with ginger and green onions, it warms the body and dispels cold while promoting appetite. Overall, the process relies mainly on steaming and hand-tearing, with clear steps, making it easy even for beginners. From prep to finishing takes about 40 minutes.

Timbits

Smoky chicken skewers

Stuffed Green Peppers (Qingjiangiang)

This Guangxi classic home-cooking dish involves green peppers wrapped with seasoned meat filling or shrimp paste. They are pan-fried until wrinkled and browned, then braised to infuse with flavor. The fragrant scent of peppers blends with the savory filling, making it salty, slightly spicy, and excellent with rice. Both pork and shrimp provide high-quality protein, while peppers are rich in Vitamin C for a balanced diet. Making this requires a bit of patience to stuff the peppers, but the process is clear. Generally, it takes about 30 minutes to complete.

Lasagna Sandwiches

Lamb tomato and sweet spices

Tea Eggs

This traditional snack is rich in tea aroma and savory flavor, packed with high-quality protein. It’s a quick, nutritious breakfast option. The instructions are clear and the difficulty is moderate. Beginners should pay attention to the heat control and spice ratio. It takes about 30 minutes to complete and makes enough food for 2–3 people, making it suitable for a leisurely weekend.

Red Braised Eggplant

Red Braised Eggplant is a rich, salty, and fragrant home-style dish. The tender eggplant cubes absorb the sauce perfectly, while the green bell peppers and tomatoes provide an appetizing sour and spicy flavor. Eggplants are rich in dietary fiber and Vitamin P (bioflavonoids), and the deep-fried cubes are crispy on the outside and fragrant without being greasy. This recipe involves coating the eggplant in a batter and deep-frying it before stewing, so there are several steps. It may seem complex for beginners, but it is very doable with practice and attention to detail. The total time from prep to cooking is about 45 minutes.

Arroz al horno (baked rice)

Beef Wellington

Barbados Pepperpot