Basic soup with pork (quick cooking)
4 Servings
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
¼ | pounds | Lean pork |
1 | tablespoon | Soy sauce |
1 | teaspoon | Sugar |
½ | teaspoon | Salt (up to) |
3 | Scallion stalks | |
6 | cups | Stock (see recipe) |
1. Slice pork thin. Combine soy sauce, sugar and salt. Add to pork and toss. Let stand half an hour, turning meat occasionally.
2. Meanwhile bring stock to a boil. Cut scallion stalks in 2-inch sections, then add. Simmer, covered, 3 to 4 minutes.
3. Add pork and simmer, covered, 5 minutes more. Skim surface to clear.
VARIATIONS: For the scallions, substitute 6 tablespoons pickled vegetables, shredded and drained. Simmer, covered, 2 minutes. Then pick up step 3, adding a few drops of sesame oil at the very end.
After step 3, add any of the following vegetables and simmer until done: 2 Cucumbers, peeled or unpeeled, sliced thin 12 radishes, unpeeled and sliced thin (simmer uncovered) 1 large bamboo shoot and 8 water chestnuts, both sliced thin 1 Cup fresh green peas; and ½ pound spinach, cut in 2-inch sections (simmer uncovered )
3 dried black mushrooms (soaked), cut in strips; and ¼ pound beansprouts
From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .