Chinese pork & shrimp rice noodles in broth

6 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
4 Oriental mushrooms; dried
. * OR *
. 6 fresh mushrooms
6 Leaves of Napa cabbage
½ pounds Pork chop meat; thinly
. sliced into 1/4\" strips
1 tablespoon Soy sauce
1 teaspoon Hoisin sauce
3 tablespoons Water
2 teaspoons Cornstarch
4 tablespoons Vegetable oil
3 Green onions; cut into 2\"
. slivers
1 cup Small shrimp; peeled &
. deveined
8 cups Chicken stock
½ pounds Rice stick noodles (may
. substitute egg noodles
. or vermicelli)
1 teaspoon Salt
¼ teaspoon Black pepper

Directions

Soak the dried mushrooms in hot water for 10 minutes. Remove the stems and slice the caps into strips. (Just slice the fresh mushrooms, if using fresh). Set aside.

Stack the cabbage leaves; then cut across into strips 2 inches wide.

Cut each strip across the width into slivers 2 inches in length. Set aside.

Place the pork strips in a bowl with the soy sauce, hoisin sauce, water and cornstarch. Mix until the pork is thoroughly coated. set aside to marinate for 20 minutes.

Heat the oil in a wok or large skillet over high heat and stir-fry the pork for 3 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, drain the pork and remove to a paper-towel-lined plate.

Bring the oil back up to high heat and stir-fry the mushrooms and onions for 2 minutes. Add the shredded cabbage and shrimp and fry until the shrimp becomes pink and the cabbage becomes limp.

Add the stock and bring to a boil. Add the rice noodles and boil for one minute. Return the pork to the wok just to heat through and season with the salt and pepper.

NOTE: Some ingredients may be available only at Asian grocers.

Vietnamese variation: Omit the mushrooms. Stir-fry the onions with the pork. Substitute 3 large tomatoes, each cut into 6 segments, for the cabbage. Serve the soup in individual bowls, first placing a lettuce leaf torn into a few pieces, a few bean sprouts, 4 or 5 narrow strips of cucumber, 3 mint leaves and a scattering of chopped cilantro leaves in the bottom of each bowl before pouring the soup in. Garnish with a sprinkling of crushed peanuts. This version may also be made with chicken instead of pork.

Nutritional Information per serving: 411 calories, 20g fat, 122mg cholesterol, 1753mg sodium

** Dallas Morning News - Food section - 26 July 1995 ** Posted by The WEE Soct -- Paul MacGregor Submitted By PAUL MACGREGOR On 08-17-95

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