Lunar year, in my experience, always involves some type of sharks fin soup real or imitation. My late grandmother admired decadence. Every lunar year, she'd order in regards to a dozen of fresh chickens in the wet market and spend lots of cash in shop selling Chinese delicacies likes shar fin. I increased up eating shark fin soup along with other stuff that I give up eating after i understand the way they came into being.
When I have promised to not eat sharks fin as well as took part in a WWF campaign known as Save Our Sea food. I began to make imitation shark fin soup. My grand-aunt who is much more practical than my late grandmother serves this yearly. While it might not be authentic shark fin soup, all who sampled her soup loved it (but to become fair she uses MSG). Here’s my form of it.
Preparation time: fifteen minutes
Cooking: fifteen minutes
Serves: 4
INGREDIENTS
Water x 1 L
Dried shittake mushroom. drenched and thinly sliced x 4 pieces/ about 1/4 cup
Chicken white meat. steamed and shredded thinly x 1/4 cup
Glass noodles. drenched and reduce 1.5 inches x 40 g
Crab stick x 2 pieces, thinly shredded
Egg. gently beaten x 1
Flour x 4 tablespoons of (dilute in 3 tablespoons of water)
Salt x 1 teaspoon
Chicken stock, powder x 1 teaspoon
Black vinegar (optional)
PREPARE INGREDIENTS
Boil chicken for around a few minutes and soak glass noodles and shiitake mushroom. Shred crabstick and chicken into thin slices. Slice mushroom into thin slices.
COOKING SOUP
Bring water to boil. Add mushroom and shredded chicken. Boil for ten minutes to extract flavour. Add glass noodles and add crab stick. Season with salt, dark soy sauce and chicken stock. Now, it’s time for you to thicken the soup with diluted flour. Pour and rapidly stir it. Add pretty much to offer the consistency you would like. Lastly, swirl egg in to the pot and rapidly stir it to guarantee the egg forms thin, lengthy layers.
SERVE
Serve hot having a dash of black vinegar.
- Basically can, I stay away from artificial flavoring within my cooking. This recipe is catered for that busy prepare, and so i recommend chicken stock powder. I attempt using a smaller amount of it (1 teaspoon). If you'd like it to taste like individuals you've at Chinese wedding dinners, you may to place a bit more.
- I’ve chose to make this numerous amount of time in order to discover the perfect recipe for lunar year I’ve attempted commercial chicken stock powder and homemade slow-steamed chicken broth. If one makes a flavourful chicken broth with chicken bones, ft and vegetables like carrots you are able to omit using chicken cubes also it still taste wonderful.
- I've found it simpler to chop mushroom utilizing a scissors than slicing having a knife.
- If you wish to make sure the soup texture is smooth, make certain ingredients are thinly sliced and don't put an excessive amount of chicken which provides the soup a tough texture.
Check it out this lunar year!