Hot and Sour Sea Cucumber
Hot and sour in flavor with a golden hue, suitable year-round. Sea cucumber braised with an assortment of ingredients.
Ingredients
Sea cucumber (rehydrated, cut into long and wide strips)
500g
Bamboo shoots (sliced)
40g
Ham (sliced)
40g
Chicken (sliced)
40g
Dried mushrooms (sliced)
to taste
Shaoxing wine
to taste
Soy sauce
to taste
Fine salt
to taste
Sugar
to taste
Aromatic vinegar
to taste
MSG
to taste
White pepper
to taste
Scallion and ginger (fried and then removed)
to taste
Arrowroot starch (for thickening)
to taste
Chicken stock
to taste
Lard (for frying scallion and ginger)
to taste
Instructions
1
Prepare the ingredients
Rehydrate the sea cucumber. Cut into long and wide strips. Slice the bamboo shoots, ham, chicken, and dried mushrooms.
2
Braise
Blanch the sea cucumber briefly in boiling water and remove. In a separate wok with lard, fry the scallion and ginger until golden, then remove. Add the sea cucumber, the prepared ingredients, wine, soy sauce, salt, sugar, vinegar, MSG, and pepper into the wok. Add chicken stock and braise together over low heat for about a quarter of an hour. Thicken with arrowroot starch and serve.
