Recipe Testing: Secret Restaurant Recipes

In addition to reviewing the fabulous cookbooks in my collection, I will also be reviewing recipes that I tested from the cookbooks that I reviewed (I will try to post pictures as well).

Recipes I tested and loved from Kosher Restaurant Recipes:
Sesame chicken (pg. 148- Kosher Chinese Express)
I've been to Kosher Chinese Express before and have enjoyed their sesame chicken. This recipe tastes almost exactly like it. I didn't double fry the chicken and used the lite soy sauce the recipe called for instead of making the a brown sauce like the restaurant does (Leah and Victoria explain how it's made in the sidebar). It was a bit of a patchke because of the frying. I like that it didn't call for nearly as much sugar as most sesame chicken recipes do (maybe because it's authentic).

Sweet potato soup with meatballs (Citron and Rose- pg. 72)
This soup recipe was worth the price of the entire cookbook IMO. It's very easy, fairly health and tastes heavenly. I made this soup twice so far; I doubled the recipe the 2nd time I made it and froze some of it. It froze very well. The soup also tastes amazing topped with some grated cheese. If you make it with cheese, you can skip the meatballs and then the recipe is even simpler.

Here's a picture of the soup that I made:

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