Chinese Soup with Cellophane Noodles and Fluffy Light Chicken Meatballs
- 800 ml The cooking liquid from making chicken meatballs -
- 1 as many (to taste) Chicken meatballs (optional)
- 1 King oyster mushroom
- 4 cm Carrot
- 30 grams Cooked bamboo shoots in water (canned or vacuum packed)
- 1 dash Dried wood ear mushrooms
- 20 grams Zha cai (Chinese pickles)
- 1 Cellophane noodles (dried)
- 1 Pea shoots
- 1 tbsp Sake
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 dash Pepper
- 1/2 tsp Sesame oil
- Have the soup that results from making chicken meatballs ready..
- You an make a delicious soup with the poaching liquid from boiled chicken too..
- Strain the soup through paper towels.
- If there isn't enough soup, augment it with water.
- If the soup doesn't have enough flavor, add a little soup stock granules.
- Rehydrate the wood ear mushrooms by soaking them in water, and cut into 2-3 pieces each.
- Cut the carrot and king oyster mushroom into sticks.
- Slice the bamboo shoot thinly.
- De-salt the zha cai for a short time and then julienne.
- Simmer the cut up vegetables in the soup.
- Season with sake, salt and pepper.
- Add the chicken meatballs and cellophane noodles.
- I used these noodles this time.
- They don't have to be pre-soaked to rehydrate and can just be added to soups.
- Add a little sesame oil and some pea shoots that have been cut into 3 cm pieces, and the soup is done.
- You only need a small amount of pea shoots as garnish.
- I cut the roots off a pack I'd bought previously and put them in water to grow more shoots.
- I used these shoots in the soup this time.
- You can omit the chicken meatballs, and the soup will still be great.
- Add lots of mushrooms and vegetables.
- For light and fluffy egg drop soup
- The meatball-soup can be used to make Chinese style rice
chicken meatballs, chicken meatballs, mushroom, carrot, water, mushrooms, zha cai, noodles, pea shoots, sake, salt, pepper, sesame oil
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/152376-chinese-soup-with-cellophane-noodles-and-fluffy-light-chicken-meatballs (may not work)