REAL JAM RECIPES!

Rice fried with eggs, peas and spring onions is one of the most popular Chinese dishes. Everybody know this classic dish variations, even those people who never tried to cook anything Chinese.

5 ½ ounces long-grain rice
3 eggs, whisked
2 tbsp oil
2 clove garlic, crushed
4 ½ ounces peas
spring onions, finely sliced
1 tbsp light soy sauce
salt

1. Boil rice for 10-13 minutes until half-cooked.
2. Put eggs in a pan over gentle heat. Stir and cook for 3-4 minutes.
3. Heat oil in a big pan. Add garlic, onion and peas. Fry 1-2 minutes. Then add rice, eggs, salt and soy sauce and stir. Cook for 3-4 minutes.
4. Decorate with spring onions and serve.

Artichokes have wonderful taste, but cooking of this dish is a quite laborious work. Still be sure your effort will be rewarded.

1 liter water
2 artichokes, peeled
6 ounces shrimps, shelled and cooked
4 tomatoes, diced
1 lemon peel and juice
1 big clove garlic, grated
3 leaves spring onion, sliced
1 tbsp olive oil
salt and pepper at taste

1. Fill a big saucepan with water and add lemon juice. Bring to a boil and put artichokes inside. Cover and cook for 20 minutes, until the leaves are easily separated from the stalk.
2. Take artichokes from the pan, allow them cool and water flow down. Cut the top and remove inedible pith.
3. Heat olive oil in a deep pan, place garlic and cook for 2-3 minutes over a medium heat. Combine with onion and cook for 2 minutes more. Combine with shrimps, tomatoes, lemon peel, salt and pepper and fry for 2-3 minutes over a strong heat.
4. Stuff artichokes with shrimp mass, spot with olive oil and trim with lemon peel.