Ham & Bamboo Shoot Soup

Name: Ham & Bamboo Shoot Soup
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 25 g/1 oz/¼ cup peas, thawed if frozen; 5 ml/1 tsp lard or white cooking fat; 1 egg, lightly beaten; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 30 ml/2 tbsp vegetable oil; 150 g/5 oz young bamboo shoots, cut into thin strips; 115 g/4 oz ham, diced into 1cm/½in cubes; 5 ml/1 tsp lard or white cooking fat; 30 ml/2 tbsp light soy sauce; 30 ml/2 tbsp Shaoxing wine or dry sherry; 30 ml/2 tbsp Shaoxing wine or dry sherry; 800 ml/scant 1½ pints/3½ cups meat stock or water; 800 ml/scant 1½ pints/3½ cups meat stock or water

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

China

By Terry Tan

Published 2020

About

This fragrant soup hails from Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province, which has been known as a popular beauty spot for centuries. There is an old Chinese saying: ‘In Heaven there is Paradise; in China we have Hangzhou.’ This beautiful city also offers many gastronomic delights. Chinese ham is very different from the Western kind and the best is reputed to come from Jinhua, also in the same province. If this is unavailable, use good smoked ham.

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China
Shanghai
Zhejiang
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