Minced Squab with Lettuce Cups
- 2 each squabs
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil
- 2 each garlic cloves
- 10 each water chestnuts minced
- 1/2 cup bamboo shoots minced
- 6 each mushrooms, chinese
- 4 each scallions, spring or green onions minced
- 6 each oysters
- 1 pound sausage four links
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce, light
- 2 tablespoons rice wine
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon chicken broth
- USING A THIN CLEAVER, cut away the wings and thigh joints and pull off the skin, cutting it where necessary.
- Set the skin aside.
- Bone the breasts.
- Scrape all the meat you can from the bone.
- Neatness does not count!
- To remove the leg meat, make a slit the length of the leg to the bone.
- Pull the meat away, cutting it off the bone where necessary.
- Remove the small but tough tendon from each leg.
- Bone the second squab, then add the bones, feet, heads and wings to 1 cup chicken broth and reduce the liquid to 1/2 cup.
- With 2 cleavers, start chopping the meat, until finely minced.
- Set aside.
- Thinly slice the squab skin.
- Stir-fry the skin in a little oil to render the fat and crisp the skin.
- This takes about 10 minutes.
- As the skin browns, move it up the side of the wok.
- Set the crisped skin aside.
- The preceding steps can be done up to 8 hours in advance.
- Keep the minced squab refrigerated if it must stand longer than 1 hour.
- Stir-fry the squab in the oil with the garlic over high heat until is is browned lightly.
- Add the remaining minced ingredients, mix them well and add the reduced chicken broth, sugar, soy sauce, rice wine or sherry and oyster sauce.
- Bring the mixture to a boil and stir in the cornstarch dissolved in broth.
- Stir in the crisped skin and transfer the mixture to a serving plate.
- Serve the dish surrounded by lettuce cups.
- Each diner wraps some of the squab mixture in a lettuce cup.
squabs, peanut oil, garlic, water, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, scallions, oysters, chicken broth, sugar, soy sauce, rice wine, oyster sauce, chicken broth
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/minced-squab-lettuce-cups-46102 (may not work)