How do you reheat chineese food? It's always so clumpy when I microwave it. Is there a better way?

Question

I love ordering beef and broccolli and my husband loves chicken egg foo young. They both come in a gravy. When ever you reheat it, the gravy never melts; it stays clumpy. I don't reheat the rice. That's a lost cause.

Answer 1

Add a little water to it. and cover it with plastic wrap. Or you can heat it up on the stove with a little water.

Answer 2

Water is the key to reheating chinese food! Especailly the rice. Add a little water to the food and then reheat in a covered container. The water will create steam which will usually breakdown the gravys and the rice. Works for me all the time....

Answer 3

When I reheat Chinese food I heat it up in a pan on the stove. I have ordered fried rice, and re cooked it adding what I enjoy turns out great. I use sesame oil for re frying the rice.

If yoiur using the microwave, you need to cover it with some type of wrap to keep in the moisture.

Answer 4

the clumpiness is because of the high amount of cornstrach that chinese food has added in it to thicken the gravy so that it can be eaten with the noodles or rice ususally served with chinese food although deep fried gluten is just as delicious with it.

to reheat the food,i empty my portion out into a glass dish and add half a cup of water and microwave it for 45 seconds. i then take the food out and stir it so as to dissolve any visible clumps and then i reheat it again for 45 secons and serve.

try this method.it always works and i hope you enjoy your chinese food!!!!

Answer 5

The "clumpy" is because of the cornstarch in the sauce (gravy). If you add just a little bit of water to it when you zap it and stir it, it should thin out the clumps. For the rice - adding just a little water to it too - covered - will plump it back up. But what I love, and I mean LOVE to do with the cold rice is make a stir-fried rice out of it. I always ask for the steamed rice so I can go home and do that. Nasii Goreng (Indonesian fried rice) is to die for. I have that for breakfast on occasion and my son was raised on it - he loves it too.

Answer 6

Lay a paper towel over plate that food is on the paper towel keeps the moisture in I love to reheat chinese food general tso's is my favorite enjoy

Answer 7

you need to heat the rice seprate add a tiny bit of water and mix it half way through heating. Beaf and broc can be heated in the container for luike 45 sec. Come out nice

Answer 8

Heat it at a lower power lever for a little longer time...it will just heat it without cooking it which is probably why you are getting lumps. You can defrost stuff in the M-Wave without cooking it, so you can heat it without cooking it more. Try 3-5 minutes at 40-60% power instead.

Answer 9

Nuke The Rice & add a little water
Reheat broccoli in pan on low heat for 10 min

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Answer 10

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