Stir-fried dried mushrooms w/snow peas

4 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 cup Dried black mushrooms
1 cup Bamboo shoots
¼ pounds Snow peas
2 tablespoons Oil
½ teaspoon Salt
2 tablespoons Oil
2 tablespoons Soy souce
½ teaspoon Sugar
¼ cup Stock

Directions

1. Soak dried mushrooms.

2. Slice bamboo shoots and soaked mushrooms. Stem snow peas.

3. Heat oil. Add salt, then snow peas, and stir-fry until bright green (less than 1 minute). Remove from pan.

4. Heat remaining oil. Add mushrooms and bamboo shoots; stir-fry to coat with oil (about 1 minute).

5. Add soy sauce, sugar and stock and heat quickly. Then simmer, covered, 3 minutes.

6. Return snow peas and stir-fry only to reheat. Serve at once. VARIATIONS: 1. In step 4, first stir-fry briefly 1 garlic clove and 1 slice fresh ginger root, both minced. Then add the mushrooms and bamboo shoots.

2. In step 4, also add 1 cup celery, ½ cup water chestnuts and 2 tablespoons cloud ear mushroom (soaked), all sliced. Stir-fry 2 to 3 minutes with the mushrooms and bamboo shoots. In step 5, increase the stock to ½ cup.

From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .

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