Name: Vegetarian Stew
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Henan
Ingredients: 100 g/3¾ oz button/white mushrooms; 30 ml/2 tbsp hoisin sauce; 40 g/1½ oz cloud ear/wood ear mushrooms, soaked until soft; 3 garlic cloves, crushed; 30 ml/2 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 cube preserved red beancurd; 4 Chinese black mushrooms; 200 g/7 oz pak choi/bok choy, sliced into strips; 10 mangetouts/snow peas; 25 g/1 oz fresh root ginger, grated; 5 ml/1 tsp salt

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

China

By Terry Tan

Published 2020

About

A quintessential northern vegetarian dish from Henan, this stew is a signature dish for many Taoist and Buddhist festivals, when meat is not allowed. Most Chinese families, however, serve vegetable dishes as part of every meal, as they demand a good balance of all the food groups. This dish is similar to the eastern Chinese dish, Buddha’s Vegetarian Stew, which hails from Fujian.