Braised Shark’s Fin with Crab Meat

Name: Braised Shark’s Fin with Crab Meat (Hsieh jou pa ch’ia)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: ½ cup crab roe (optional); 1 cup crab meat; 5 slices ginger; 4 green onions; 12 oz. soaked shark fin; 1 teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon sugar; 1 tablespoon soy sauce (light); 1 tablespoon soy sauce (light); 2 tablespoons wine; 9 cups chicken soup; 4 tablespoons lard (or oil); 4 tablespoons lard (or oil); ½ tablespoon chicken oil; ¼ teaspoon black pepper; 4 tablespoons cornstarch

Hsieh jou pa ch’ia

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

12 oz. soaked shark fin
4 green onions
5 slices gin

Asia
Taiwan
Chekiang
Kiangsu
Shanghai
Main course

Method

Put soaked shark fin in pot, add 2 green onions, 3 slices ginger and 3 cups chicken soup. Stew over low heat for ½ hour until soft, then drain off soup.
Saute remaining green onions and ginger in 4 tablespoons lard, until golden brown. Pick out onions and ginger, add crab meat and roe, stir-fry a while. Add wine, 6 cups chicken soup, soy sauce, salt, sugar and