Fans of Chinese cuisine are no doubt familiar ... with the right amount of sweet tanginess. Plum sauce also serves as a nice ...

John Torode is in the kitchen with a recipe for an authentic Chinese meal that’s easy to create at home - Chinese duck with plum sauce and noodles. Put the oil and the shallots into the saucepan ...

so named because of the colour of the sauce (although, in truth, it’s more brown than red, but “brown-cooked” doesn’t sound as appetising). Beef cheeks are wonderful in a red-cooked dish ...

without reaching for that shop-bought sauce. Beef goes particularly well with black beans, the salty and pungent flavour of which is so distinctively southern Chinese. This simple, homely ...