Chicken with black bean sauce is a popular restaurant dish. Too often, however, one is served overcooked vegetables with scraps of chewy chicken swimming in a gloopy sauce. This version is a ...

Recipe for Chicken and Black Bean Soup #1. To prepare the Tex-Mex seasoning mix, combine all ingredients in a medium-sized bowl and stir to combine. Transfer to an airtight storage container and ...

3. Stir in the garlic, chili powder, ground cumin, and sugar. Cook until it smells really good…this happens fast, about 30 ...

Add oil, tomato purée and chicken. Simmer until sauce thickens slightly and clings to meat, 10-15 minutes. Season with salt. To serve, divide tinga among 4 plates along with rice and beans.

One month after Calvin opened his Cantonese American restaurant, Bonnie’s, in Brooklyn, we found out I was pregnant. We couldn’t wait to tickle our baby boy’s tiny toes and kiss his chubby cheeks, to ...

Black bean sauce comes in jars, cans and vacuum packs and is sometimes flavoured with garlic, ginger, chillies or spices. Do not use black bean sauce interchangeably with yellow bean sauce ...

Fermented black beans are used to flavour vegetables, meats, seafood and bean curd. Try them in the classic Cantonese dishes of chicken with black bean sauce or clams with black bean sauce.

Fermented vegetables feature in Central American cooking as ‘curtido’ – a white cabbage, carrot and onion mix flavoured with coriander. The sour crunchy flavour of the ferment really ...