Ham and Luffa
A vibrant red-and-green dish of braised ham and loofah, with a fragrant aroma and tender, refreshing taste.
Ingredients
Luffa (peeled, washed, cut into flat slices 6 cm long and 1.5 cm wide)
400 grams
Cooked ham (cut into cubes (original text mistakenly wrote 'tou tui', should be ham))
100 grams
salt
to taste
MSG
to taste
Starch (for thin starch slurry)
to taste
Peanut oil
to taste
Stock
to taste
Instructions
1
Step 1
Cut the cooked ham into cubes, peel the luffa, wash it and cut it into flat slices 6 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, blanch in oil heated to 50-60% heat, then drain and set aside
2
Step 2
Leave a small amount of base oil in the wok, add stock, salt, put in the luffa and simmer for half a minute, add MSG, thicken with a thin starch slurry, remove from the wok, arrange the luffa slices neatly on a plate, sprinkle with cooked ham cubes, pour over the remaining sauce in the wok and serve
