Bird’s Nest Soup with Ham

Name: Bird’s Nest Soup with Ham (Fu jung yen ts’ai)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon wine; ½ teaspoon salt; 3 cups chicken soup stock; ¼ teaspoon MSG; ¼ oz. bird’s nest; 2 cups chicken soup stock (cold); 3 eggs; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoon ham; some green vegetable

Fu jung yen ts’ai

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

¼ oz. bird’s nest
3 eggs
2 cups chicken soup stock

Asia
Taiwan
Shantung
Soup
Gluten-free

Method

Beat eggs well in bowl and add cold soup stock, salt, wine and MSG. Mix well, then strain into large soup bowl, and steam until done. (First steam for 5 minutes over high heat then steam for another 10 minutes over low heat.).
Soak bird’s nest in water for about 2-3 hours. While soaking pluck out small feathers.
Clean bird’s nest twice with warm water