Braised Sea Cucumbers with Shrimp Eggs

Name: Braised Sea Cucumbers with Shrimp Eggs (Hsia tzu hai shen)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 cups soup stock; ⅓ teaspoon each of salt, sugar, black pepper; ⅓ teaspoon each of salt, sugar, black pepper; ⅓ teaspoon each of salt, sugar, black pepper; 10 green onion (4” long); 2 tablespoons ginger water; 2 tablespoons wine; 3 tablespoon soy sauce; 1 green onion; 2 slices ginger; 5 tablespoons oil; 1-½ tablespoons shrimp eggs (dried); 2 pounds sea cucumber; 1 tablespoon cornstarch

Hsia tzu hai shen

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

2 pounds sea cucumber
1 green onion
2 slices ginger

Asia
Taiwan
Shantung
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Clean sea cucumber. Cook in water with ginger and green onion for 20 minutes over low heat.
In 4 tablespoons oil, fry green onion until brown, then arrange the sea cucumber on it. Splash with wine and ginger water (soak the chopped ginger with 2 tablespoon water for 5 minutes). Add soy sauce, soup stock, salt, sugar, black pepper, and sprinkle with dried shrimp