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Hosting friends for the World Cup? These 5 easy blender salsas come together in minutes.
Salsa verde can brag about being the most versatile - used on its own as a dip or as the perfect topper for enchiladas or tamales. The blend of tangy tomatillos, grassy fresh chiles, sharp white onion, and fresh cilantro brings a bright and sharp flavour.
Salsa mexicana is the quintessential salsa, bringing the key components of tomatoes, onion, cilantro, and fresh chiles. Basically interchangeable with pico de gallo’s flavour palette of sweet acidity mixed with a kick of spice, this salsa is an easy blended version.
Spicy Xnipec (pronounced shnee pec), is a fiery salsa made with sour Seville orange juice, habanero chiles, and red onion. Its sharp acidity and chile punch pairs well with seafood and can help balance richer food like cochinita pibil. This one should come with a heat warning!
Salsa arriera has a jammy consistency and brings smoked flavours to create a unique salsa that is typically served as an accompaniment to grilled meats like carne asada.
Salsa de Árbol brings a special chilli kick of the same name, which is about six times hotter than your average jalapeño! Balancing this heat is the sweetness of the tomatoes and caramelised onions. This salsa is perfect for chip-dipping but you’re also going to want to put it on everything.
And there you have it - five unique flavours that can be blended up in no time.
For more details and full recipes on blitzing your way to salsa fame head to chefsteps.com
Hosting friends for the World Cup? These 5 easy blender salsas come together in minutes.
Salsa verde can brag about being the most versatile - used on its own as a dip or as the perfect topper for enchiladas or tamales. The blend of tangy tomatillos, grassy fresh chiles, sharp white onion, and fresh cilantro brings a bright and sharp flavour.
Salsa mexicana is the quintessential salsa, bringing the key components of tomatoes, onion, cilantro, and fresh chiles. Basically interchangeable with pico de gallo’s flavour palette of sweet acidity mixed with a kick of spice, this salsa is an easy blended version.
Spicy Xnipec (pronounced shnee pec), is a fiery salsa made with sour Seville orange juice, habanero chiles, and red onion. Its sharp acidity and chile punch pairs well with seafood and can help balance richer food like cochinita pibil. This one should come with a heat warning!
Salsa arriera has a jammy consistency and brings smoked flavours to create a unique salsa that is typically served as an accompaniment to grilled meats like carne asada.
Salsa de Árbol brings a special chilli kick of the same name, which is about six times hotter than your average jalapeño! Balancing this heat is the sweetness of the tomatoes and caramelised onions. This salsa is perfect for chip-dipping but you’re also going to want to put it on everything.
And there you have it - five unique flavours that can be blended up in no time.
For more details and full recipes on blitzing your way to salsa fame head to chefsteps.com

![How to Make Taiwanese Fried Chicken—Two Ways!
Taiwanese fried chicken typically takes two forms: bite-sized, flavor-packed popcorn chicken (yán sū jī) and a bigger-than-your-face chicken cutlet (dà jī pái). The ingredients and method for preparing the two variations are mostly the same, but the popcorn chicken is made with bits of chicken thigh and the chicken cutlet is made from breast meat. The chicken is marinated in soy sauce, mijiu (a fermented rice wine), white pepper, five-spice powder, and then it’s dredged in coarse sweet potato starch before it’s double fried, which produces the distinctive ultra-crispy crust.
In this video, chef Tim Chin demonstrates our two foolproof recipes, showing you how to butcher the chicken, marinate, dredge, and fry the chicken so it’s crispy on the outside and juicy and tender within.
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Taiwanese Fried Chicken Cutlet (Dà Jī Pái): https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/taiwanese-fried-chicken-cutlet
Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken (Yán Sū Jī): https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/taiwanese-popcorn-chicken
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[Time Codes]
0:00 - How to make Taiwanese fried chicken cutlet and popcorn chicken
0:55 - How to butcher chicken thighs and breasts
5:59 - How to marinate chicken
7:34 - How to make seasoning powder
8:54 - How to thicken marinade
12:39 - How to dredge the chicken
14:43 - First fry
15:55 - Second fry
18:24 - Serve and enjoy Taiwanese fried chicken, two ways
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![The Crispiest and Crunchiest Cantonese Roast Pork Belly (Siu Yuk)
Roast pork belly (siu yuk) is one of the iconic preparations in the larger category of dishes known as siu mei—a collective term for meats roasted over an open fire. With its tender and luscious layers of meat and fat and its super crunchy and crispy cap of skin, you’ll find it at Chinatown barbecue shops hanging alongside lacquered roast duck, soy sauce chicken, and char siu, and sliced into neat rectangles at good dim sum places.
In this video, chef Tim Chin demonstrates how home cooks can use sous vide to cook skin-on pork belly to produce juicy, melt-in-your mouth meat, and how to guarantee that the meltingly tender skin can be transformed into a chicharron-like crust. To access the full recipe and more, visit chefsteps.com.
Crispy Cantonese Roast Pork Belly: https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/crispy-cantonese-roast-pork-belly
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0:00 - How to make Cantonese roast pork belly (siu yuk)
1:17 - How to make the cure for the pork belly
2:17 - How to find the right cut of pork belly
3:11 - Add the cure
5:04 - Sous vide the pork belly
7:07 - Air dry the pork belly
10:55 - Make the dipping salt
14:46 - Air fry pork belly
19:11 - How to carve crispy Cantonese roast pork belly
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