Cucumber and Chicken Offal Soup
Green peas — emerald-bright, fresh and tender, pleasing to the eye and refreshing to the palate.
Ingredients
Chicken offal (sliced)
100 g
Cucumber (halved lengthwise, cut into half-moon slices)
50 g
Egg yolk
1
Milk
50 g
Fine salt
1 tsp
MSG
1 tsp
White pepper
1 tsp
Chicken broth
4 cup
Instructions
1
Ingredient Prep
Slice the chicken offal into pieces. Wash the cucumber, halve it lengthwise, and cut into half-moon slices.
2
Blanching Ingredients
Place the chicken offal and cucumber separately into a pot of boiling water to blanch until just cooked through, then lift out and arrange in a soup bowl. Sprinkle with white pepper.
3
Preparing Egg Mixture
Pour the milk into the egg yolk and whisk together until smooth.
4
Cooking Soup and Plating
Place a soup pot over the heat and add the chicken broth, fine salt, cooking wine, and MSG. When the soup comes to a boil, pour in the whisked milk and egg yolk mixture and gently stir with a ladle to break it up. Ladle the finished soup into the bowl holding the chicken offal and cucumber.