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Ingredients
2 med Turnips
2 sm Carrots
2 tbsp Peanut oil
4 Green onions
2 c Chicken stock
3 Fresh asparagus spears
1 tsp Salt
1/2 c Button mushrooms
1 pinch Sugar
1/2 c Peeled straw mushrooms
8 Baby Sweet corn
1 tbsp Chicken fat
8 Water chestnuts
1/2 c Crab Meat or shelled Shrimp (opt)
1/2 tsp Fresh ginger root
1 tb Tientsin preserved
Cornstarch Paste
Steps
Peel turnips & carrots.
Use melon scoop to cut turnips into large balls.
Slice carrots 1/2″ thick; then with paring knife, cut 4 evenly spaced notches into rim of each slice (don’t cut into center core).
Carrots should look like little flowers.
Parboil turnip & carrots in stock until barely tender.
Remove from stock & plunge pieces into cold water; drain.
Cut onions, asparagus & baby corn into 1 1/2″ pieces.
Mince together fresh ginger root & Tientsin preserved Vegetable.
In a small pan or beaker on med heat, render pieces of chicken fat.
Add peanut oil to Hot wok.
When it begins to smoke, briskly fry crab meat or shrimp for 1 minute.
Add asparagus, baby corn, mushrooms & water chestnuts, stir-frying until they are Hot.
Add ginger mixture, then onions.
Stir-fry another 30 seconds.
Add 1/2 stock, salt & Sugar; bring to boil. Add turnips & carrots.
Cover & reduce heat; simmer for 5 minutes.
Uncover, push ingredients out of liquid, & dribble in cornstarch paste to thicken slightly.
Stir liquid to prevent lumping while it thickens to a thick Soup.
Recombine, then mix in chicken oil.
Place on serving platter.
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