Mock Fish Buddhist

08.11.2008 | Author: Cook | Posted in Vegetarian
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Mock Fish Buddhist


Servings: 1
Ingredients: 

  • 1 lg Potato; cooked, peeled
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  • -and sliced 1/4 inch thick
    • 

  • 2 tb Flour
    • 

  • Peanut oil; for frying
    • 

  • 1 sm Onion; sliced
    • 

  • 1/2 lb Snow peas
    • 

  • 10    Wood ears; soaked to soften,
    • 

  • - tough ends removed,
    • 

  • - cut in slivers
    • 

  • 1/2 ts Salt
    • 

  • 1/2 ts Sugar
    • 

  • 1/3 c  Water
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Sprinkle potatoes with flour and deep-fry until golden.
Drain and set aside. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of the oil,
reheat an add onion. Stir-fry 10 seconds and add snow peas and
wood ears. Stir-fry another 10 seconds and add salt, sugar and
water. Bring to rapid boil, stirring constantly, and cook until
peas are just tender crisp. Add reserved fried potato slices,
heat through and serve.

Wood ears are a type of mushroom or shelf fungus. When
soaked it has a crunchy, gelatinous texture with little taste. If
you can’t find them, I imagine that you could use the dried
mushrooms although they wouldn’t give exactly the same effect. A
closer substitute would be dried jellyfish, but if you’re some-
where that sells dried jellyfish, I’m sure that they have wood
ears as well…

From ‘The Regional Cooking of China’ by Margaret Gin and
Alfred E. Castle. 101 Productions, San Francisco, 1975.
From: Stephen Ceideburg

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