Double Crisp in Boiled Soup
A classic Shandong (Lu) soup featuring crisp, tender textures, clear lightly flavored broth, and a delicious, rich, mellow, aromatic flavor.
Ingredients
Instructions
Prepare the main ingredients
Cut open the tripe and gizzards with a knife, peel off the outer skin, wash in clean water, remove the inner tendons, and cut a cross-hatch pattern on the outside (to a depth of 2/3 the thickness of the tripe). Rinse in clean water and place in a separate bowl for later use.
Blanch
Fill a soup pot with water and place over high heat. When the water reaches about 80% of boiling, add the gizzards first, then the tripe. Immediately remove and place into a soup bowl. Add the scallion-pepper mixture and Shaoxing wine, mix well, then sprinkle with chopped cilantro and white pepper powder.
Pour the broth
Place the clear broth, soy sauce, fine salt, scallion-pepper mixture, and Shaoxing wine in a wok and heat over the flame until boiling. Skim off the foam, add MSG, and pour into the soup bowl. Serve immediately; once at the table, push the main ingredients into the broth and it is ready.