Happy family
6 Servings
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
2 | ounces | Beche-de-mer (up to) |
4 | Dried black mushrooms | |
½ | cup | Chicken breast |
Water to cover | ||
½ | pounds | Lean pork |
1½ | teaspoon | Soy sauce |
1½ | teaspoon | Sherry |
½ | teaspoon | Salt |
¼ | teaspoon | Sugar |
½ | cup | Smoked ham |
½ | cup | Bamboo shoots |
⅛ | pounds | Snow peas |
2 | tablespoons | Oil |
1 | cup | Stock |
½ | teaspoon | Salt |
½ | teaspoon | Sugar |
2 | teaspoons | Cornstarch |
2 | tablespoons | Water |
Directions
1. Soak and boil beche-de-mer; cut in ½-inch sections. Soak dried mushrooms.
2. Place chicken breast in water. Bring to a boil; then simmer, covered, 30 minutes. Let cool; then skin, bone and dice.
3. Mince or grind pork. Blend well with soy sauce, sherry, salt and sugar; form into 8 walnut-size balls.
4. Dice ham. Slice bamboo shoots. Stem snow peas and cut in half; then blanch. (See "HOW-TO SECTION".) Cut soaked mushrooms in half.
5. Heat oil. Quickly brown porkballs on all sides, then remove from pan.
6. Add stock to pan and bring to a boil. Stir in mushmrooms and bamboo shoots to heat, then return porkballs. Cook, covered, 5 minutes over medium heat.
7. Add beche-de-mer, diced chicken and ham, the remaining salt and sugar. Cook, covered, 3 to 4 minutes more.
8. Meanwhile blend cornstarch and cold water to a paste, then stir in to thicken. Stir in snow peas only to heat through and serve at once.
From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .
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