Chinese Sausage Fusion Recipes

Chinese sausage or Lap Cheong is a common sight in the markets throughout Asia, an essential element that has found its way as one of the essential ingredients of Chinese Cooking. A complex touch of sweetness and savouriness yet with a balance of bite texture. Ideal Food's traditional recipes Chinese Sausage are the top choice amongst Michelin Class chefs and restaurants. They understand the so-called "Sixth Taste," of freshly smoked Lap-Cheong and the aroma it releases when steam or pan fry. This signature "Sixth Taste" that lurked, ineffable, amongst the Chefs primary, more understood the identifiable taste of Sour, Sweet, bitter, Chili and salty, just beyond the reach of the rational mind to grasp. What it does to your dish, magical and taste-buds don't lie.

It is no surprise their Cantonese style sausage is better known as Asian's chorizo for usage in western recipes. In this article, we will discuss how to cook Chinese sausage dishes with Asian sausage recipes fusion.

Typically, you will find Chinese sausage in plastic packages of red or Brown sausages speckled with fat. While this sight may seem foreign at first, that Chinese sausage — also called "Lap Cheong" in Cantonese Chinese style sausage — is amazingly delicious. While the given name of this variety of meat has the word "Chinese Lap Cheong" in it, this name actually covers a much wider range of cured and smoked sausages widely available in many other Southeast Asian countries. While varying levels of dryness, quality and different types of meat combinations, most Chinese taste sausages are made with delightfully fatty pork and taste seductively sweet. Truly taste Chinese with a modern twist.

If you're shopping for Chinese sausages (Lap Cheong), you're best served if you have some idea of what you want to use them for. As they do range in taste and texture, you might, for instance, discover that the smoked varieties of Chinese sausage are too dry to use as a direct substitution for standard sausage, but amazing when used in Lap Cheong carbonara or Lap Cheong Quesadilla. Brings a smile to the family. Below are a range of lap Cheong recipe to reference when you are seeking for Lap Cheong sausage recipe the next time you are in Chinatown in Singapore.

Since these sausages possess intensely concentrated flavours and with such flexibility in their usage to enhance your recipe, they can add sweetness or saltiness to your dishes. The quantity to use can be adjusted to each's preference. I've personally used them as the main component of many of my dishes, but they can easily be incorporated as a sweet and salty component in dishes starring tamer and milder ingredients.

We have introduced some very friendly and easy to achieve recipes for your reference. Happy cooking!

1. Fried rice with Chinese sausage dishes
2. Lap Cheong carbonara. (Pasta with Chinese sausage)
3. Simple Stir-fry Wok dishes with Lap-Cheong
   
4. Pizza with Lap-Cheong (Chinese sausage)
5. Lap Cheong With eggs

Fried rice with Chinese sausage

Chinese sausage and rice make a natural pair as the two balance each other wonderfully. The bold flavour of the sausage functions as a way to season the plainest bowl of rice and lends sweet-salty accents to a vegetable-filled wok of fried rice, in both cases enhancing the dishes beyond belief. The first few meals that I cooked (at a young age, besides the Chinese sausage rice cooker steaming), was fried rice with eggs, ginger, frozen vegies and Chinese sausage stir fry (Lap Cheong). Anything thing that involved Chinese sausage in all its delicious fabulousness tastes amazing.

This meal made with sausage, eggs, rice, soy sauce, and Oyster sauce remains one of my most relied-upon comfort foods. You can combine Chinese sausage and rice in pretty much any way you like, but here are some recipe ideas I like, should you need them.

Pasta with Chinese Sausage

If you think of Chinese sausage as having all the alluring powers of bacon and more, you'll begin to understand how it's kind of perfect paired with pasta. While I'm not normally a big fan of fusion dishes, I can't get enough of the sweetness that Chinese sausage brings to a bowl of creamy pasta noodles.

The layers of texture and barbecue/smoked adjacent savoriness have helped me to normalize the taste. Whether you swap it in for bacon in classic carbonara or caramelize pieces with garlic and toss with linguine, Chinese sausage (Lap cheong) lends these traditional Italian dishes loads of umami (Parmesan Brings) rich flavour, depth, and complexity.

This recipe turns a standard pasta carbonara recipe into something extraordinary by using Chinese sausage instead of regular bacon. Also, try this with linguine as the Lap Cheong can boost the flavours in your usual plain pasta. Chinese sausage is easy to pair with mushrooms and spaghetti for a quick and easy weeknight meal.

How to Make Pizza with Chinese sausage?

Chinese sausage pizza seems obvious, do explore this simple glorious combination. Since these tasty links are sweet, salty, and approximate pepperoni when sliced, they can be used in much the same way. In whatever dish you would deem appropriate to enjoy with pepperoni, you should do so with Chinese sausage just as easily! Pizza is certainly at the top of my list. Salty meats on crusty carbs will always be a yes in my book.

How to Make Lap Cheong Stuffing V2.0

Change up your stuffing game when you start adding slivers of Chinese sausage to your go-to concoctions. Sure, Thanksgiving is prime time for making stuffing, but why not make this seasonal dish on the reg, especially if you get to add incredibly delectable sausage to it? Cubed bread (or rice), spices, herbs, and decadently fatty Chinese sausage soaked in flavorful broth seems like the kind of thing we partake in often. If you need further convincing, check out the Lotus Rice wraps with Lap Cheong. This stuffing dish that's ridiculously savoury and nuanced, will find their place in many fusion recipes.

Lap Cheong with eggs

The word is out! Chinese sausage and eggs go together like a dream. The sweet and salty flavours of the links balance the rich yolk and mild whites, making them particularly well-suited to each other. Whether you incorporate slices of Chinese sausage into your go-to morning scramble, make them a part of your next omelette filling, or enjoy them in a steamed egg custard, you won't be disappointed by the wonderful melding of flavours that takes place when these two ingredients come together. Can't imagine how to pair these sausages with your standard egg dishes?

Lap Mei Fan

Give your standard clay-pot Lap Mei Fan, some much-needed life by making good use of Chinese sausage mixed. This Chinese sausage recipe dish traditional contains chopped Lap Cheong, chicken, and sauces — which is all great, don't get me wrong! However, even the best culinary inventions could use new breath every so often. By adding Premium Chinese sausage from Ideal Food to this equation, you're saying yes to lots of goodness: incredible savoriness, barbecue adjacent sweet-salty vibes, and all-around food happiness. Here are a few recipes that might speak to you.

I hope these cooking ideas inspire you to visit your local Chinese groceries in search of Chinese sausage.
The next chance you get to visit Chinatown in Singapore, come down to 11 Hong Kong Street, Teck Sang to pick up your fresh supply of Chinese Sausage and accompanying ingredients.