Flowered Chicken Soup

Name: Flowered Chicken Soup (Hsueh hua chi)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 10 slices ham (½” square); 5 pieces Chinese parsley; 1 egg white; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons cornstarch; ¾ cup shrimp (shelled and minced); 1 teaspoon wine; 3 egg white; ¼ cup pork fat (minced); 5 cups soup stock; 1 tablespoon cornstarch; 1 dried black mushroom (soaked and cooked); 1-½ teaspoons salt; 1 whole chicken breast (about 1 pound); ½ teaspoon salt (for chicken); ½ teaspoon salt (for chicken)

Hsueh hua chi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 whole chicken breast (about 1 pound)
½ teaspoon salt (for chicken)

Asia
Taiwan
Shansi
Hopeh
Honan
Shantung
Soup
Gluten-free

Method

Remove the bone from whole chicken breast and score the meat lengthwise and crosswise. Splash with salt and wine, let stand about 10 minutes.
Place the minced shrimp and pork fat in same bowl, add egg white, salt and cornstarch. Mix thoroughly.
Place the whole chicken breast on a flat plate (skin face down), and sprinkle whole top with cornstarch, the