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Cookery
The Cookery of Vegetarian Food is similar to meat dishes. But it has its originality in cooking process. The main cooking methods are: mixing, stewing, crisping, smoking, pickling, rolling, frying, sautéing, baking, braising, boiling, steaming, frosting and putting candied juice, thick liquid, etc.
The vegetable dishes have their peculiar shapes, combining and decorating skills. “Similar to meat dishes” is the main characteristics in cooking vegetable dishes. “Total vegetable dishes” cooked by Mr. Liu Haiquan are outstanding in this aspect. He uses gluten, dried bean milk cream and condiment of Chinese medicine to cook “chicken” and “duck”, which are similar in appearance.
After long history development, the varieties of vegetable dishes are very rich and colorful. The famous dishes are eight-treasure rice pudding, arhat vegetable meal, chilli bean curd, etc. There are many dish groups. The famous dishes are: small spareribs in sweet-sour sauce, fried dried bamboo shoots, fried eel thread, spiced toasted bran, mushroom fried with heart of green vegetable, fried vegetable shark’s fin, vegetable sausage, mixed arhat vegetable meal, dried mushroom gluten, vegetable ham, eight-treasure vegetable chicken, fried bean curd, fried crucian with dried bamboo shoots, walnut kernel in soy sauce, fried gluten etc.