I need a good chinese recipe for sea cucumber?!
I need a good chinese recipe for sea cucumber?
I need some good chinese recipe for sea cucumber. Any idea?
Additional Details1 day ago
Any idea if it has any nutritious value?
1 day ago
LOL!! its a sea vegetable. :)
Answers:
sea cucumber
A marine animal named for its cucumber-like shape, with short tentacles at one end. Not readily available fresh in the United States, but available dried in Asian markets. Dried sea cucumber must be soaked in water a minimum of 24 hours, and will double in size and take on a gelatinous quality. It's rather rubbery and is most often used in soups.
I haven't tasted this ...
Recipe: The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea Gambolling Around the Arhat
Ingredients:
1. Cooked Chicken breast 300g
2. Soaked shark fin 100g
3. Sea cucumber 100g
4. Abalone 100g
5. Fishbone 100g*
6. Fish maw 100g**
7. Shrimp 100g
8. Ham 100g
9. Asparagus 50g
10. Fish meat (white fish, preferably Chinese white croaker) 250g
11. Cooking wine 50g
12. Some chicken broth, some ginger, leaves of greens, and some cooked lard.
Directions:
Note: The ingredients must be laid out separately in a pot or dish in eight sections. The chicken representing Arhat is placed in the center, and covered with slices of ham, ginger, and greens).
1. Mince half (150 g) of the chicken breast into a fine paste. Use part of the paste to lay out on the bottom of a pot or dish to form Arhat's cushion. Cut the rest of the chicken into bars.
2. Cut the white fish into bars and sandwich the fishbone in each.
3. Arrange the shrimps in a ring.
4. Form the shape of chrysanthemum with the shark fin and the chicken paste.
5. Shape the sea cucumbers like butterflies.
6. Pick out eight pieces of asparagus.
7. Arrange all the ingredients in the pot as described above.
7. Season the materials above with salt, MSG (if desired), and Shao Xing Chew (a cooking wine) and steam.
8. Pour hot chicken broth and hot lard over the ingredients and serve hot.
*Fish bone is a kind of fish glue abstracted from fishbones and scales of sharks or croakers by braising. In fact, it is a clear jelly.
** Fish maw is the air-bladder of certain types of fish. It must be soaked in water before being cooked.
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